PRASHANT KUMAR
Sydney
Summary
Security Administrator with extensive background in IT maintenance and risk management. Specialized in security operations and applications. Dedicated to protecting valuable data and intellectual property via robust governance protocols.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Security Engineer
CMC Markets APAC
04.2023 - Current
- Enhanced network security by implementing advanced threat detection systems and conducting regular vulnerability assessments.
- Conducted phishing campaigns within the organisation and provided training programs for employees on cybersecurity best practices, increasing awareness and fostering a proactive security culture within the organization.
- Monitored the Stockbroking platform for any DDoS, Brute-Force attack traffic and mitigating it by working with the CDN provider.
- Set up Bot Protection for the stockbroking platform.
- Monitored and improved the SIEM platform by configuring alerts, dashboards, reports, etc.
- Conducted Firewall audits.
- Set up and monitored CASB/SASE solution.
- Managed exceptions and reporting on EDR solution.
- Managed the email security solution.
- Conditional Access policies on Azure.
- Worked with the Developers to fix the vulnerabilities discovered in penetration test reports.
IT Security Administrator
Seventh-Day Adventist Church
09.2021 - Current
- Ensure that the security practices in the organization meets the NIST framework standard.
- Monitor and Triage security logs generated from different tools like Netskope, Azure AD, VMware.
- Triaged and actioned the logs generated from SIEM tool – AlienVault.
- Configured and enforced email security authentication mechanisms: SPF, DKIM and DMARC for 109 domains.
- Conduct Phishing campaigns for the high-value employees on a regular basis.
- Actively participate in security trainings for user awareness.
- Review and audit firewall (Fortigate) logs through Forti Analyser.
- Administered Azure AD - Multifactor Authentication, Geoblocking, Conditional Access policies.
Casino Dealer
The Star Entertainment Group
04.2019 - 09.2021
- The Star Group, Sydney.
- Provide exceptional customer experience while working with a diverse guest base.
- Maintain game integrity by keeping an eye out for details.
- Work around very high amounts of money and keep an eye for any security incident.
Support Engineer
HCL Technologies
05.2017 - 04.2018
- First point of contact for Deutsche Bank client employees to resolve their IT queries and escalating to concerned team if required.
- Tickets were assigned to my team through a ticketing tool, ServiceNow for which the SLA was 3 days.
- Fixed application, Virtual machines through Citrix Desktop Director, network issues for the clients in a timely manner and keeping SLAs in mind.
- Provided support to the clients working remotely using the RSA admin tool.
- Supported many in house teams by sharing daily SLA and performance data.
- Assisted the server team monthly to run upgrades and patches through SCCM.
- Attending weekly, fortnightly calls with client to discuss measures to improve the efficiency of teams.
- Worked with the security operations centre team as an intern for 6 months and had hands-on experience on Splunk.
- Key Achievements:
- Promoted to Escalation Team (L2) based on exceptional performance where the major part of job was to resolve the issues escalated by the client within 24 hours.
- Moved to the security operations team for the last 6 months based on my performance to be familiar with the operations and working of the team.
Junior Support Engineer
Wipro Ltd
04.2016 - 02.2017
- First point of contact for all IT queries for the internal employees within the organization.
- Job role was to fix the IT issues raised by the employees using BMC remedy ticketing tool.
- Escalate issues to senior team members as per severity based on company defined escalation protocols.
- Assisted in routine backups, file transfers, emails.
- Continuously update skills and learn emerging technologies.
- Achievements:.
- Consistently met SLA based 24-hour problem resolution time for non-escalated cases.
Education
Master of Information Technology - Cyber Security
University of Technology Sydney
Sydney, NSW11.2020
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Science
CITM Jaipur
India06.2015
Skills
- Knowledge of designing cloud-based solutions utilizing AWS
- Strong knowledge of network security and cyber security including network vulnerability assessments and threat intelligence analysis
- Cyber incident assessment, triage, forensics and investigation
- Application development and automation in Python
- Identification and mitigation of project risks
- Ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly
- Exceptional customer service experience in gaming and IT services industries
- Building trusted relationships with stakeholders from different functional teams
LINKEDIN PROFILE
linkedin.com/in/prashant-kumar-052a04208
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
- Created a portal for a company using Amazon RDS, EC2 and VPC which enabled current employees to express their interest in other internal job opportunities.
- Demonstrated a network cyber-attack using Nmap
- Digital forensics evidence collection using ProDiscover and OSForensics.
Professional Memberships
. AISA (Australian Information Security Association)
. ACS (Australian Computer Society)
Accomplishments
- Certifications: Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
TOOLS USED
- Security & Forensic Tools: Nmap, Wireshark
- Web Proxy/CASB/SASE: Netskope, Cisco Umbrella
- Operating Systems: Windows and Linux.
- Ticketing tools: ServiceNow, Jira Citrix, BMC remedy
- CDN: Akamai, Cloudflare
- EDR: Malwarebytes, Crowdstrike, Sophos
- Email Security: Proofpoint, Abnormal Security, Cisco Ironport, MS Exchange
- Firewall: Fortinet, Checkpoint, Palo Alto
- Vulnerability Assessment: Pentera, Nexpose, Threat Intelligence Evolve
- SIEM: Splunk, AlienVault
- IAM: Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Sailpoint
PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENMTS
· Men’s badminton champion during college (CITM)
· National student carrom champion (2012 and 2013)
. Cricket: Won the best batsman award for the Blacktown Club Cricket Tournament
Timeline
Security Engineer
CMC Markets APAC
04.2023 - Current
IT Security Administrator
Seventh-Day Adventist Church
09.2021 - Current
Casino Dealer
The Star Entertainment Group
04.2019 - 09.2021
Support Engineer
HCL Technologies
05.2017 - 04.2018
Junior Support Engineer
Wipro Ltd
04.2016 - 02.2017
Master of Information Technology - Cyber Security
University of Technology Sydney
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Science
CITM Jaipur
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