Senior Cybersecurity Consultant with over 13+ years of experience in IT Banking, Telecom , Education and OT utility Sector,Service Based Enterprise customers. Excellent reputation for resolving Incident, Implementation, Integration and improving customer satisfaction. Adept at identifying security risks and improving security architecture designs. Proven ability to maintain efficiency in high-stress situations.
· Architecting Splunk Enterprise deployment, clustering (singlesite, multi-site), data onboarding and replication, clustering (single-site or multi-site) configuration, reporting.
· Creating Dashboards according to the business needs using
· Advance XML.
· Experience on Splunk Enterprise Deployments and enable continuous integration as part of configuration using (props.conf, transforms.conf, inputs.conf& outputs.conf, server.conf) management.
· Expert in installing and using Splunk apps for Unix/Linux (Splunk nix) and for Windows (Splunk windows).
· On-boarding data into Splunk from many sources such as windows servers, application servers, syslog server etc
· Troubleshooting Splunk feed issues and data ingestion for remote locations.
· Configure hot, warm and cold buckets hold data for extended period of time.
· Creating knowledge objects such as dashboards, reports, scheduling searches, alerts, tags, field aliases, event types, search time fields extractions, and others
· Worked on DB Connect configuration for Oracle, MySQL and MSSQL
· Manage splunk indexes,create new indexes and delete old or used indexes.
· Implementation and Managing ArcSight ESM, Loggers, Connectors and ArcMC.
· Health Checkup, Backup and Monitoring Log stoppage.
· Working with SUN, AIX, Linux, Windows Platforms and DB.
· Upgrading ArcSight Components.
· Connectors Installation and troubleshooting.
· User Access Management on ArcSight appliances.
· Threat Intelligence and Threat feeding. Fine tuning Rules, Reports, Dashboards.
· Device integration and decommission.
· Flex Connectors Implementation (File, DB and Syslog)
· Security Incidents Investigations and Providing reports to management.
· Implementation and Managing IBM Security Guardium DAM and FAM.
· Health Checkup and Monitoring Collectors and Central Manager.
· Integration of databases and systems for database and file activity monitoring
· hosted on various platforms.
· Responsible for Guardium Appliances Management and Administration.
· Monitoring of Guardium Appliances Six Collectors with Central Manager/Aggregator.
· Upgrading Guardium Appliances and STAP Agents.
· Configuration of Policy rules on Guardium Central Manager and push to all Collectors.
· Guardium Configuration and Data backup/Archiving. · ArcSight Administration.
· Connector Installation and troubleshooting.
· Device integration.
· Creating and Fine tuning Rules, Reports and Dashboard.
· Creating Daily, Weekly and Monthly Reports for Client.
· Responsible for administration of Palo alto firewall.
· Monitored, analyzed (Palo Alto 5050) systems logs for events of unauthorized access to detect security threats, vulnerability and collaborate with management and systems administrators to resolve issues.
· Configuration and management of the Global Protect VPN solution on Palo Alto NGFW.
· Incident handling processes of CERT.Sa (Alert drone Security Incidents-Govt Alerts).
· Troubleshooting tickets and Business as Usual operations.
· Hands on experience on firewalls, antivirus and authentication devices( palo alto, cisco, fortinet, cisco acs).
· Responsible for Qualys Vulnerability management for advance threats. · Responsible for Cyberark privilege account session manager for credential protection, session isolation and monitoring.
· Root Cause analysis in problem management for service interruption and recovery.
· Hands on experience on NAC solution device. ( Bradford NAC )
· Installing and configuring new hardware/software.
· Answering technical queries.
· Responsibility for documenting the issues of the system.
· Troubleshooting any reported problems.
· System performance tuning.
· Performing backups of data.
· Applying operating system updates, and configuration changes.
Splink administration
Splunk application development
Palo Alto firewall administration
Access control systems expertise
Cross-platform experience
Arcsight,Splunk,Qradar-SIEM
RSA NetWitness expertise
Trend Micro Apex One expertise
Successfully Implemented IBM Security Guardium FAM for Zlinux Platform.
Successfully Implemented HCL Appscan.
Succesfully Implemented CyberArk.
Employee of the Month
Award of Appreciation
Iqama : Transferrable
Profession : System Analyst
Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect
Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin
Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin
Splunk Power Core User
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
CyberArk Trustee
Qualys Vulnerability Management
CCNA R&S and Security
CCNP R&S and Security
ISA 62443 CFS
Palo Alto ACE
Tenable VM Specialist
IBM Guardium Certified Admin