Harsh Thakur

About Harsh Thakur

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I\'ll spend initial four sharpening my Axe\"- Sir Abraham Lincoln.Security professional with 8+ years of continuous security monitoring, threat hunting, and intelligence driven incident response experience. Acquired knowledge within penetration tests, vulnerability detections, attack analysis and crisis management domains. Consistently maintained a good understanding and insights about Windows & Linux platforms through certifications and self-learning. Highly developed written and oral communication skills gained through effectively working in a hands-on real time security operations environment and through managing client engagements & practical projects.Areas of Interest: Security Operations & Automation, Digital Forensics, Incident Response | Handling | Recovery | Management, Threat Hunting & Intelligence Detections (IOC\'s), Malware Detonation Analysis & Investigation, Deep/Dark Web Scanning & Monitoring, GRC | DLP, Vulnerability Assessments & Penetration Testing, Log Analysis, Aggregation & Correlation, BCP | DR | CM, SIEM, Escalation, Reporting & Auditing, Identity, Privilege & Access Control Management, IT Security Frameworks | Standards | Policies | Procedures, Reverse Engineering | Exploit Development, CERT | CSIRT | SOC | NOC | TTP | DevSecOps | Fraud InvestigationsSOC Tools & Technology Experience : Alerting & Triage : Splunk, Splunk-ES,Automation : Phantom, CiscoSecureXSandboxing : Virustotal, ipvoid, domaintoolsCisco Stack : CiscoSecureX SOAR, Cisco Threat Grid/Threat Response, Stealthwatch, Meraki, Firepower Threat Defense, On-Duty Shifts : Splunk-Oncall(VictorOps)Security Stack : QualysGuard, Nessus.sc, Appscan, Acunetix, HP-Webinspect, Splunk-ES, Splunk-Phantom, PagerDuty,), Servicenow, Remedy, Okta, QRadar, Arcsight, LogRythm, AlientVault USM, Comodo, Check Point, Cisco-AMP, Sophos-InterceptX, Palo-Alto Panorama, Sumo-Logic, Symantec Endpoint Manager, Cylance-Protect, Carbon Black, Trend Micro, Kaspersky, Bitdefender, McAfee EPO & UDLP, MalwareBytes, 0365 ATP Defender, AWS, ManageEngine, KnowBe4, RSA-Archer, Maas360, VendorRisk/Bitsight, Bitlocker, CyberArk, Sailpoint, Jira/Slack, Ping-Identity, O365 Security & Compliance Center, Mimecast, Proofpoint, Google-Project Shield, SonicWALL.Protocols & Utilities: tcp/ip, ftp, http, dns, smtp, ad/ldap, smb, tlp, netbios, ssh/ssl/tls, dhcp, snmp, pgp/pki, ping, grep, ngrep, awk, sed, tcpdump, wireshark.Frameworks : Cyber Kill Chain, MITRE ATT & CK, Diamond Model for Intrusion Analysis and Pyramid of Pain.

Experience

1. Aws Cloud Incident Response Engineer (Cloudsec Secops)

   Amazon

   Nov 2023 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

Education

• Pace University

  Master's Degree, Cybersecurity

  2015 — 2017

• St. Francis D'Assisi High School

  S.S.C, 1st standard - 10th Standard

  1999 — 2009

• University of Mumbai

  Associate's Degree - Diploma in Computer Science, Computer Technology

  2009 — 2012

• Thadomal Shahani Engineering College

  Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering (Computer Science)

  2012 — 2015

Skills

• Threat Intelligence
• Disaster Recovery
• Powerpoint
• Security Incident & Event Management
• Cain & Abel
• Computer Forensics
• Backtrack
• Digital Forensics
• Cyber Defense
• Nmap
• Vmware Workstation
• Information Security
• Management
• Security
• Wireshark
• Mysql
• Microsoft Word
• Team Leadership
• Kali Linux
• Sql
• Windows
• Shell Scripting
• Networking
• Logging
• Log Analysis
• Threat & Vulnerability Management
• Troubleshooting
• Python
• C++
• Ubuntu
• Linux Mint
• Network Security
• Java
• Information Assurance
• Microsoft Office
• Vmware Vsphere
• C
• Leadership
• Metasploit
• Penetration Testing