Preetham Kumar

About Preetham Kumar

I help organizations reduce real security risk across applications, APIs, and cloud…

Experience

1. Security Engineer

   Egestalt Technologies

   Dec 2024 — Present

   As a Security Engineer, I play a vital role in securing IT infrastructure, ensuring compliance, and mitigating cyber risks. My responsibilities include:1. Configuring, managing, and monitoring security settings across Linux and Windows environments while applying industry best practices for system hardening.2. Conducting security assessments, penetration testing, and vulnerability scanning to proactively identify and address risks.3. Managing access control systems, identity management solutions, and authentication mechanisms such as LDAP, Active Directory, and SSO.4. Analyzing security logs, responding to incidents, and implementing automated monitoring tools to enhance threat detection.5. Supporting security audits, conducting impact analyses for system changes, and ensuring adherence to regulatory standards.6. Securing cloud environments, managing firewalls and VPNs, and enforcing network segmentation strategies.7. Developing Python, PowerShell, and Bash scripts to streamline security monitoring and compliance checks.

Education

• Mangalore University, Mangaluru

  Bachelor's of Computer Applications

  2018 — 2021