Magendran Gopinathan

About Magendran Gopinathan

Diligent cyber security analyst & Infrastructure support with 6 years of experience managing events and security data across several SIEMs. An exceptional work ethic and a committed professional. knowledgeable about a variety of technologies and able to pick things up fast and adjust to new surroundings. bringing extensive understanding of many network and endpoint security toolkits.

Experience

1. Senior Security Specialist (Soc)

   HCLTech

   May 2023 — Present · Chennai, IN

   Well Experienced Security Analyst in a Security Operations Center (SOC) environment, proficient in SIEM tools for operational tasks, including log analysis, event filtering, management of active channels, report generation, and optimizing existing rules for improved detection and response.•Manage and enforce local/global shift coverage to ensure 24/7 operations protecting security for the organization with Efficiently delivering daily BAU tasks.•Monitoring and investigating the server event logs to solve the security issues with the most advanced IBM Qradar Tool and categorizing them as false positive and true positive alerts. Effectively contributing to KB for SOC and SOP.•To ensure work is organized and processed and completed within agreed timescales, including ongoing monitoring and review of workflow and priorities, in accordance with procedures.•Actively detecting the malicious network activity, network traffic, logs, and security alerts to identify potential security threats or vulnerabilities and analyzing the Phishing Email.•Excellent expertise with malicious command executions on workstations and servers, phishing tickets, and malware tickets.•Strong understanding of rule logics and the ability to construct and refine various rules in Qradar based on events that are prioritized to identify legitimate threats.•Creating and fine-tuning rules on daily basis based on alert triage and from resolution of incidents.•Perform L2 analysis on the incidents escalated by Level 1 analysts and provide in depth analysis to clients.•Creating documents, knowledge bases related to QRadar and event monitoring for Fresher/team reference.Experience with the following tools:•SIEM: IBM Qradar, Azure sentinel,Google Soar & Chronicle.•Endpoint: CrowdStrike,Trend Micro Microsoft defender 036.•Email Gateway: Proofpoint TAP, TRAP, Gateway.•Ticketing Tool: Service-Now,Zoho,Jira.

Education

• University of Madras

  Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services

• University of Madras

  Master's degree, Cyber Security Computer Forensics and Science

• Panimalar

  Diploma of Education, Electrical and Electronics Engineering