Ankit Dash
Melbourne,VIC
Summary
Dedicated Cybersecurity professional with more than four years history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Security Operations Analyst
SEEK (Online Education Services)
10.2021 - Current
- Performed and reviewed technical security assessments via MS Defender to identify points of vulnerability and non-compliance with established information security standards and recommend mitigation strategies.
- Handled and remediated vulnerability of assets across the organization via vulnerability management tool, provided results and recommendations to senior management and greater team.
- Formulated a patch management process to efficiently respond to new updates.
- Represented company's technical security interests to partners to provide bi-directional flow of technical information and best practices in information security.
- Validated and verified system security requirements definitions and analyzed system security designs.
- Orchestrated deployment of security tools in the cloud and on-prem network with minimal disruption and downtime. Planned and oversaw configuration changes for security infrastructure platforms.
- Improved organization security posture through incident investigation as per SP800-61 guidelines on rapid7.
- Assisted in the formulation of security policy as per NIST, ISO27000 framework standards.
- Carried out phishing campaigns using various payloads to test social security awareness.
- Raised cybersecurity posture by carrying out awareness training and regular communications through newsletters
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer
Darktrace
11.2019 - 10.2021
- Awarded for the highest number of deployments in APAC in 6 months with a 98% success rate
- Supported 20 accounts on an average per month and generated revenue of $400,000.
- Designed efficient network solutions for Proof of Concepts and full deployment.
- Installed the IDPS tool in cloud networks (Azure, AWS), on-prem physical, and virtual (HyperV, ESXi).
- Created reports by triaging alerts on the IDPS threat intelligence platform.
- Modified and optimized IDPS machine learning models as per requirement.
- Mentored/trained new starters on technical aspects as well as presentation skills.
Cybersecurity Engineer
Darktrace
11.2017 - 11.2019
- Drove proof of concept trials for 7 Account (on an average per month) as Technical Representative between all stakeholders; creating network designs, threat reports, presentations and proposals for small and medium sized businesses
- Analyze client network security standards and requirements on the basis of sizing meetings.
- Work with network manager/administrator to submit an RFC to CAB.
Education
Master of Science - Telecommunication And Network Engineering
Royal Melbourne Institute of Tech
01.2017
Skills
- SIEM
- IDPS
- Incident Response
- Cloud Security
- AWS
- MS Defender
- Project management
- Vulnerability management
- Threat Hunting
- Threat reporting
Certification
- CCSP, ISC2
- AWS Cloud Practioner
- CEHv10, EC-council
Timeline
Security Operations Analyst
SEEK (Online Education Services)
10.2021 - Current
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer
Darktrace
11.2019 - 10.2021
Cybersecurity Engineer
Darktrace
11.2017 - 11.2019
Master of Science - Telecommunication And Network Engineering
Royal Melbourne Institute of Tech
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