Sharookh Abdul Salam

Professional with 7+ years of experience in IT field. Highly motivated SOC Analyst with passion for Cyber Security Area. Certified Ethical Hacker with hand on experience in SIEM and SOAR tools

 

Organization: UST Global, Techno Park, Kerala, India 
Duration                : Apr 2018 – Till date
Role                        : Senior SOC Analyst
Responsibilities    : 
• Acting as first level of cyber defense and providing support 24/7
• Monitoring and analysis of cyber security events with the use of Cortex XSOAR and other tools.
• Execution of SOC procedures
• Triage security events and incidents, detect anomalies, and report remediation actions.
• Ensure completeness of the incident information.
• Analysis of phishing emails reported by internal end users.
• Analysis of Malware, Threat intelligence and Splunk incident.
• Create and analyze Potential Security Incidents.
• Escalation of incidents to be handled to L2 SOC team, when relevant.
• Follow up on remediation activities
• Triage on general information security tickets.

Duration                : Dec 2016–Mar 2018
Role                        : Infrastructure Engineer
Responsibilities    :
• 24/7 Production Support
• Production deployments for windows and Linux servers hosted in AWS.
• Interpreted application-specific deploy processes.
• Handled software configuration management issues and coordinated with development team.
• Enforced automation in build and deployment procedures, executed code builds and deployment activities.
• Hands on experience in automation tools (Jenkins and Ansible).
• Remarkable experience in complicated build systems and software development environment.
• Profound knowledge in software and release engineering and software configuration management.
• Steep knowledge with build and release engineering tools, SCM systems, VMware and build management tools.
• Understanding of Linux shell scripting, Windows, build and release engineering principles.
• In-depth knowledge of release management methodologies and production deployment.
• Monitoring and tuning of server performance.
• Setting up of Application / server environments for the development team.

ORGANIZATION: COMPU-NEEDS, TECHNOPARK, KERALA, INDIA
Duration                : Oct 2014 – December 2016
Role                        : L1 Desktop Support Engineer
Responsibilities    :
• Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware, software, or other network and system problems, and replace defective components when necessary. 
• Maintain and administer computer networks and related computing environments including computer hardware, systems software, applications software, and all configurations. 
• Provide support to users via handling tickets from tools like BMC Remedy, ServiceNow or via email and onsite visit.
• Manage users and Systems through Active Directory.
• Plan, coordinate, and implement network security measures to protect data, software, and hardware. 
• Configure, monitor, and maintain email applications or virus protection software. 
• Operate master consoles to monitor the performance of computer systems and networks, and to coordinate computer network access and use. 
• Load computer tapes and disks and install software and printer paper or forms. 
• Design, configure, and test computer hardware, networking software and operating system software. 
• Monitor network performance to determine whether adjustments need to be made, and to determine where changes will need to be made in the future.

 

MASTER’S IN COMPUTER APPLICATION – MCA (2010-2013) WITH GPA 60.1% FROM KERALA   UNIVERSITY
B.SC. IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (2006-2009) WITH GPA 61.1% FROM KERALA UNIVERSITY