Resume

General Information

Full Name Amruta Pandhare
Languages English, Hindi, Marathi
Location Navi Mumbai

Experience

  • 2021 - Now
    SOC Analyst L1
    CyberNX Technologies Pvt Ltd.
    • Familiarity with ElasticSearch SIEM tool and expertise in log analysis.
    • Monitoring, analyzing, and investigating security alerts to ensure comprehensive threat detection.
    • Creating and documenting incidents, accurately reporting on the incident response process.
    • Providing recommendations for appropriate actions and solutions based on incident investigation and analysis.
    • Developing use cases and producing reports to support security operations.
    • Conducting noise reduction techniques to minimize false positives and optimize threat detection.
    • Crafting Threat Advisories and conducting Threat Intelligence to inform proactive security measures.
    • Maintaining regular communication with clients and serving as their primary point of contact.
    • Being a dedicated SPOC for a specific client, providing personalized attention and support.
    • Directing and supervising a team of 10-12 security professionals.

Education

  • 2021
    Degree in Computer Engineering
    Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai
    • Marks - 74.78% (8.23 GPA)
  • 2018
    Diploma in Computer Engineering
    VPM’s Polytechnic, Mumbai
    • Marks - 85.44%
  • 2015
    SSC
    Vidya Mandir, Titwala, Mumbai Suburban
    • Marks - 87.40%

Certifications & Courses

  • Certified AppSec Practitioner (CAP) — The SecOps Group
    • Certified Appsec Practitioner (CAP) is an intermediate-level exam to test attendees’ knowledge on the core concepts of application security.
  • Web Fundamentals Learning Path — Try Hack Me
    • The aim of this path is to teach you how to successfully attack and exploit web applications. Knowledge of OWASP Top 10, and BurpSuite, etc.
  • Practical Ethical Hacking — TCM Security
    • This course covered the practical side of ethical hacking and using tools like Nmap, Nikto, Burp suite, etc.
  • Introduction to Network Analysis — Security Blue Team
    • This course covered understanding of basic networking fundamentals and the skills to analyze malicious traffic from a mock compromised system PCAPS using Wireshark and TCPDump.
  • Python Data Structure — University of Michigan
    • This course introduced the core data structures like Strings, Files, Lists, Dictionaries, Tuples, etc.
  • Programming for everybody (Getting started withPython) — University of Michigan
    • This course introduced the basics of Python like variables, functions, loops, etc.
  • First Step Korean — Yonsei University
    • This was an elementary level Korean language course and it covered basic consonants, vowels, and expressions used in everyday life, such as greetings, talking about family, and so on.
  • Meditation (A way to achieve your goals in your life) — KAIST
    • An interesting and thought provoking course on how self reflective meditation can help achieve life’s goals such as peace and contentment.

Expertised Areas

  • Incident Response
  • Ethical Hacking (Nessus, Burpsuite, etc.)
  • Amazon Web Services (Guadduty, S3, Ec2, etc.)
  • Kali Linux (Nmap, Metasploit, etc.)
  • Computer Network (Wireshark, Shodan, etc.)
  • Threat Intel (MISP, Cyble, etc.)
  • Python

Skills and Proficiencies

  • Team management
  • Strategic and Proactive at work
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Very organized and disciplined
  • Always striving to learn things

Other Interests

  • Reading Novels
  • Watching True Crime Documentaries
  • Listening Podcasts
  • Learning New Languages