Santhosh Valaboju

About Santhosh Valaboju

10 Years of experience in Cloud Security, Cloud Risk Advisory and Cloud IaaS Administration.• Strong Experience in Multi cloud (AWS, Azure and GCP) IaaS Administration which includes Virtual Machines, Storage Accounts, Recovery Services Vault, Virtual Networks, Network Security Groups, Load Balancers and Firewalls.• Strong experience in Cloud Security controls implementation across security domains such as Network security, Identity Management, Privileged Access, Data Protection, Logging and Threat Detection, Posture and Vulnerability Management and DevOps Security.• Performed Cloud Controls Testing (Design and Operating Effectiveness) and provided recommendations for identified gaps and observations.• Actively involved in client discussions / walkthroughs for cloud and cybersecurity controls implementations and testing.• Conducted reviews on Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) Processes through a series of focused interviews, workshops & analysis of clients existing documentation and provided recommendations for enrichment of IAM Processes.• Proficiency in mapping the Risk and Control Framework\'s policies and procedural controls with established standards like NIST, COBIT, FFIEC, CIS(v8), and CSA CCM (v4).• Configured Azure Policies for Subscriptions to meet Regulatory Compliance requirements of CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark.• Deployed Defender for Cloud to Strengthen the overall security posture of environment and to protect workloads across Multi Cloud.• Experience in managing Microsoft Entra Connect, Entra Connect Health and Entra Passthrough Authentication.• Implemented the Azure Sentinel and configured various connectors to analyze the logs. • Leveraging Privilege Identity Management (PIM) to manage the lifecycle of role assignments, just-in-time access policy and discovering who has what roles.• Identifying user risks and sign-in risks by configuring Azure AD Identity Protection Risk policies.• Creating and configuring Azure Key Vaults for Secrets, Certificates and Key management.• Migration/Replication of VM\'s between the geographical regions using Azure Site Recovery.• Strong Experience in Windows Active Directory which includes Users & Computers, Security Groups and Group Policy Objects.

Experience

1. Senior Consultant

   EY

   Jul 2022 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Cloud Risk and Controls

Education

• St.Isaac Advent High School

  High School, Mathematics

  2001 — 2010

• ABV junior college

  Intermediate, MPC (Maths, Physics, Chemistry)

  2010 — 2012

• Bankatlal Badruka College for Information Technology

  Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics and Computer Science

  2012 — 2015

Skills

• Problem Management
• Red Hat Linux
• Pl/Sql
• Wds
• Microsoft Office
• System Administration
• Sql
• Storage Area Network (San)
• Servicenow
• Eclipse
• Java
• Selenium Webdriver
• Storage Systems
• Bmc Remedy
• Jsp
• Windows Azure
• Amazon Ec2
• Tomcat 5
• Active Directory
• Data Center
• Windows Server
• Operating Systems
• Amazon S3
• IT Service Management
• Change Management
• Jdbc
• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Dhcp
• Incident Management
• Network-Attached Storage (Nas)
• Dns
• Android Sdk
• Mongodb
• Ibm Bluemix
• Itil Process
• Nosql
• Web Technologies
• Git
• Vmware Workstation
• Hyper-V