Cindra Ayadathil

Cyber Security Analyst @Riskstifle

NS, CA

Built and managed a home lab simulating a full SOC environment to gain hands-on experience in threat detection, analysis, and incident response. Worked extensively with tools like Splunk, ELK Stack, Security Onion, and SOAR platforms.•Conducted malware analysis (static/dynamic) and extracted IoCs using Any.Run, VirusTotal, and Hybrid Analysis.•Simulated phishing/BEC attacks and developed an incident response playbook for email investigations.•Mapped MITRE ATT & CK techniques using Atomic Red Team and built detection rules in SIEM.•Deployed Sysmon and ELK for endpoint attack detection and alert investigation.•Created custom YARA rules and automated triage workflows via SOAR to reduce response times.•Tuned malware detection rules, reducing false positives by 40%.•Authored SOC runbooks for malware alerts including ransomware and fileless threats.

Women's Christian College - Chennai (India)

B.Com(CA), computer applications

ursuline Senior Secondary School Kannur

Commerce

Chinmaya Institute of Technology, Kannur

Master of Computer Applications - MCA, Data science