Vinayak Vvin K.

About Vinayak Vvin K.

Experienced SOC analyst with a demonstrated history of working in the Security/operations industry. Skilled in various tools like CrowdStrike, SIEM, ESET, Work on MS Azure alerts, MDO (Microsoft Defender for Office 365), MDE (Microsoft Defender for Endpoint), MDC (Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps), Phishing attacks, Alerts from multiple AV’s, forensic investigation on alerts received from AV, also working on implementing best practices in azure and AV, Handling alerts from sentinel SIEM, firewall alerts and helping my team to grow. knowledge of Wireshark, Nessus etc, Strong information technology professional with an Engineer’s Degree focused in E & TC from SIT, PUNE.

Experience

1. Senior Security Consultant

   IBM

   Feb 2025 — Present · IN

   Conducted threat hunting and investigate security incidents in CrowdStrike Falcon and Microsoft Defender XDR.• Analyze and respond to day-to-day security alerts, ensuring timely remediation.• Tune XDR alerts to optimize detection and reduce false positives.• Worked with QRadar and Microsoft Sentinel for log analysis, event correlation, and incident response.• Conduct tactical and operational research to analyze adversarial cyber threats.• Review and analyze tickets handled by L2, providing guidance and training as needed.• Correlate threat intelligence to develop insights into tracked activities, attacker TTPs, and industry trends. Review threat intelligence reports from BlueVoyant and Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence, identify recommended security settings applicable to our environment, and develop corresponding detection and analytics rules.• Assess emerging tools and best practices for tracking APTs and cyber threat actors.• Present SOC weekly data in governance meetings, identify false positives, and fine-tune security controls for improved detection accuracy.• Received Multiple Appreciations from client and internal IBM leaders.

Education

• SSPP MIT Kothrud Pune

  Diploma, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering

  2008 — 2011

• Sinhgad Institute of Technology lonavala

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering

  2011 — 2014

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

  Master's degree, Cybersecurity