Niraj Bansal

About Niraj Bansal

Hello! I\'m Niraj Sunil Bansal, currently working as a SOC Analyst with Deloitte in the Cyber Risk & Advisory domain. Over the past year, I’ve gained hands-on experience in Security Operations, Incident Response, and Content Development, contributing to strengthening client security postures and driving measurable impact. Highlights of my work Investigated and responded to security alerts across diverse environments. Created 50+ SOPs and runbooks, standardizing response processes. Fine-tuned 100+ detection use cases, achieving 65%+ reduction in false positives. Identified and remediated parsing and rule logic issues in multiple SIEM/SOAR rules. Worked on critical zero-day vulnerabilities (SAP NetWeaver, SharePoint On-Prem). Conducted IOC sweeps for threats (including Clickfix) and delivered detailed reports. Resolved gaps in Google SecOps (alerts not converting to cases) and CrowdStrike (case generation issues due to raw log changes). Supported SOC testing, content development, and SOAR playbooks to automate and optimize workflows. Delivered weekly, monthly, and quarterly metrics to clients, showcasing SOC performance and improvements. Technologies & Platforms SIEM & EDR: Google SecOps (Chronicle), Azure Sentinel, CrowdStrike, Azure Defender Cloud Security: AWS (GuardDuty, CloudTrail, Security Hub), GCP (SCC), Prisma Network & Threat Detection: ExtraHop, Proofpoint, Abnormal Security, Tenable CIEM, Mandiant, Bitsight, CAS Workflow & Collaboration: Jira, ServiceNow Passionate about advancing in the cybersecurity field, continuously learning, and contributing to building resilient systems against evolving threats.

Experience

1. Cyber Security Intern

   IBM

   Feb 2023 — Present

   It was a 2 weeks training program where we learnt about the basic Cyber Security aspects as well as how to save ourselves from possible Cyber threats. Also I earned the Cyber Security Fundamentals Badge on IBM SkillsBuild platform.

Education

• Nutan Bharat Vidyalaya and Jr. College

  Higher Secondary Education (12th)

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  Honors in Data Science

• Smt.Kashibai Navale college of Engineering

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering

• Macaroon Students Academy

  Senior Secondary Education (10th)