Venkateshwara Reddy Edara
Details
Electronics and Communications Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
2006 : 2010
Excellus BCBS
Cybersecurity Eng III
2016 : 2021
Cognizant
Cyber Security Specialist
Security itself define how keyrole it plays,i am happy to be the part of security team.
Roles :
Security incident and event management
Forensic investigation
Vulnerability management
Compliance management
Ethical hacking
Malware analysis
2011 : 2016
Tata Consultancy Services
Technical Lead
Skills
Active Directory, AWS Guard rails, AWS Security, Azure security, Azure Sentinel, Cloud Security, comodo ssl, Computer Security, Disaster Recovery, Ethical Hacking, Firewalls, Information Security, Information Security Management, ISO 27001, ITIL, IT Strategy, LogLogic, Malware Analysis, Management, Microsoft 365 Security, Microsoft Cloud APP Security(MCAS), Microsoft Defender for Cloud(CSPM), Microsoft Defender for Identity , Networking, Network Security, Palo Alto Networks Prisma, PCI Standards, Penetration Testing, Qualys Guard VM, Security, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), SIEM, Snort, SOX Compliancy, Tripwire Enterprise, Vendor Audit, Vendor Management, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Management
About
I’ve about 12 years’ experience in Security operations worked on various tools and technologies in cloud, On premise and Multi cloud (Azure and AWS) environments.
My responsibilities:
• • Acts as the senior technical representative for Enterprise Security while engaging with other senior technical leaders throughout organization in design and implementation of multi cloud and hybrid-based solutions.
• Assess and understand the company's current security posture and future architecture,
providing a viable solution path to bridge the gap.
• Research and architect solutions to solve security and compliance requirements.
• Experience in building security logging and monitoring strategy and implementing the SIEM solution (Sentinel) on Hybrid and Multi cloud (Azure and AWS) environment.
• Implemented Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM). Operationalized CSPM by integrating with Sentinel and help compliance team with Custom compliance benchmark setup
• Setting up AWS Guard rail Mandatory, Proactive and preventive controls using SCPs.
• Implementing Azure Defender for Identity to secure on prem DCs and tunning the alert for false positives
• Create AWS Cloud trail for Management, Data events and logging integrate with Azure Sentinel
• Participating in Implementation of Azure Logging through Arc (AMA), Diagnostic setting and configuring Azure Log policies related to Analytic Workspace.
• Migrating on premise log sources and legacy SIEM to Azure Sentinel
• Worked on implementing Sentinel, configuring data connector, and integrating other portals like Defender for cloud, Azure Identity protection and Microsoft 365 security etc.
• Good understanding of KQL queries, creating watchlists and work on Analytic rule tuning in Sentinel
• Review and install the solutions require from Azure Content Hub to enhance the security monitoring capability/visibility
• Managing vendor relation with MSSP provider and helping them with investigations