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
-
2015
SSC
Vidya Mandir, Titwala, Mumbai Suburban
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