Gaurav Thakur
Digital Sentinel in Cybersecurity | Expert in NIDS, Brand Monitoring, SIEM, DLP, and Attack Surface Management | Protecting Digital Frontiers with Precision
- Role
- Information Security Consultant at MakeMyTrip
- Location
- Gurugram, HR, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Gaurav Thakur
Senior Security Analyst with 5 years of hands-on experience across high-growth e-commerce…
Experience
Information Security Consultant
Aug 2023 — Present · Gurugram, IN
Led incident response efforts for critical alerts, reducing false positives from 250/day to 50/day on NIDS (Darktrace) through continuous fine-tuning and behavioural baselining.•Achieved 100% DLP coverage across endpoints and cloud using Netskope, securing sensitive data and preventing exfiltration across SaaS and web platforms.•Deployed and optimized CASB and SWG solutions (e.g, Netskope, ZTNA, proxy), ensuring granular traffic and access control with minimal policy noise and business disruption.•Developed and enforced security policies mapped to NIST, OWASP Top 10, and ISO 27001 principles, enhancing internal governance and aligning with best practices.•Proactively conducted threat hunting using SIEM and EDR, uncovering stealth threats and supporting early-stage detection and mitigation across endpoints and servers.•Integrated diverse log sources and built SIEM use cases, improving detection fidelity and enabling real-time incident response across hybrid environments.•Used CrowdStrike Falcon for endpoint visibility and basic containment, contributing to swift triage and root cause analysis during incident investigations.•Minimized external attack surface using CloudSEK ASM, identifying leaked credentials, brand impersonation, and exposed assets across public-facing digital platforms.•Collaborated cross-functionally to communicate risk, resolve escalations, and promote secure practices through security awareness initiatives and technical consulting.•Conducted end-to-end vulnerability assessments and penetration testing, identifying critical risks across infrastructure and apps; reduced exploitable weaknesses through prioritized remediation.•Strengthened enterprise defenses by designing firewall rules, antivirus policies, and network segmentation, effectively reducing lateral movement risk across internal systems.
Education
Northumbria University
MSc Cyber Security with Advanced Practice, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance
K.R. Mangalam University
Bachelors in Computer Applications, Computer Engineering
2014 — 2017
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