Salman Syed
Senior Threat Hunter @Microsoft
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Threat Hunter @Microsoft
Cheltenham, GB
Leading threat hunting across complex, multi-cloud and hybrid environments with advanced persistent threats targeting identity, endpoints, cloud control planes, and critical workloads. Driving structured, hypothesis-driven hunts from initial research through execution and containment, while integrating AI-augmented workflows to scale detection engineering and automate planning repeatability.Technical expertise includes forensic timeline reconstruction and memory/disk analysis (Velociraptor, Volatility, Autopsy), malware reverse engineering (Ghidra, IDA Pro, x64dbg), threat intelligence synthesis (MITRE ATT & CK mapping, OSINT aggregation), behavior-based detection engineering (KQL,Sentinel), system internals research (Windows Registry, Kerberos, OAuth abuse patterns), telemetry engineering (EDR/SIEM data source validation), and Agent Skills automation (Threat Hunter Playbook workflows for research, analytics, and hunt blueprints).
EDUCATION
Cambridge Institute Of Technology
Information science and engineering, Information Science/Studies
SKILLS
ABOUT SALMAN SYED
SECURITY ENTHUSIAST• Security Analyst with experience in Information Security, with emphasis on security operations, incident management, intrusion detection, and security event analysis through various SIEM tools.experience with MSS projects-handled over 10 clients and provided security analysis solutions.experience on detection writing and creation.threat hunting experience.• Over four Years of experience on SIEM Operations and Incident management.• Four years of ArcSight operations experience.• Experience of working in 24x7 operations of SOC team, offering log monitoring, security information management, global threat monitoring, anti-phishing, anti-malware.• Good understanding of log formats of various devices such as Websense, Vulnerability Management Products, IDS/IPS, Firewalls, Routers, Switches, OS, and DB Servers etc.• Custom queries writing and dashboard creation• Reporting and Documentation.• Vulnerability Assessment• Strong interpersonal skills includes teamwork, knowledge sharing & customer focus
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