Kathirvel Thiruvengadam

E-mail: kathirvelmano@gmail.com
Mobile: +91 80878 29286
Pune-India
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Objective:
To explore and enhance Application Security Testing, Penetration Testing,
Vulnerability Assessment and Network Security Testing on Windows Environment
Security Department where I can implement my proven skills and potential in the
organization.


Experience:
Nearly 5.5 years of Professional experience in Information Security
2 years Professional experience in Customer Support Executive.


Certification:
Certified Ethical Hacker v7 [ CEH v7 ] from EC Council.
Certified Information Security Expert [ CISE ] from Innobuzz Solutions.
Certification in ITIL 2003 foundation.
Pursuing Certification in CISSP.


Area of Exposure:
Vulnerability Assessment
Penetration Testing
Threat Modeling
Threat Analysis
OWASP Security Testing Method
Black box, White box & Gray box testing
Kali Linux
Metasploit
IT Operations Management
Smart Cards, Incident Management
Identity & Access Management
Profile and Password administration
Friendly with Network & Security Devices
Respond to business user queries



Educational Qualification:
MBA (Masters in Business Administration) from University of Madras
BE (ECE) Bachelor of Engineering, Priyadarshini Engineering College, Anna
University


Working Experience:

I) Barclays Technology Centre India (From 02-July-2012 to till date)
Profile:
Security Analyst Global Information Security

Responsibilities:

Single point of contact between project manager and security team
Web server audit tool (Nessus, Nmap & Acunetix)
Automated Security testing & Penetration testing by using the tools. (HP Web
Inspect, IBM App Scan & Burp suite)
Attending sync up meeting between development team, QA team and
business on the project development status.
To prepare the vulnerability report as per the Business template.
Incident, Problem and Change management
Manage email, Hotline queries and ticketing systems i.e. ServiceNow
Perform trending & root cause analysis of issues
Problem escalation
Ensuring issues are managed within agreed SLA/SLT
Coordination with various support teams, business and development teams in
ensuring smooth requirements, implementation of Change, Release and
Production Support.
Provide L2 support to business and IT users
Incident, Problem and Change management
An understanding on the following IT Security applications:
o Nessus
o Nmap
o Acunetix WVS
o HP Web Inspect
o Splunk
o IBM App Scan
o Burp suite
o Metasploit

II) RBS - The Royal Bank of Scotland Group (From 02-Sep-08 to 28-June-12)

Profile:
Information Security Administrator

Responsibilities:

Directly reporting to CTO and was single point of contact between CTO and
security team.
Threat profile and test case preparation and authorization.
Vulnerability assessment and security testing through automated tools.
User Management in 60 Applications used in Financial Organization.
Providing Role based access control to users - Provisioning, maintaining and
termination of digital rights access (Logical access) to include troubleshooting
access permission issues in Applications and in Platforms (Active Directory).
Reset passwords as needed to maintain appropriate access control
Reconciliation Process Perform quarterly access review lists for resource
owners to confirm access lists and to audit for dormant accounts.
Ensure all documented procedures are followed are followed in relation to
account administration.
Troubleshooting problems in relation to the application supported.
Deals with assigning Smart Cards, RSA Tokens.
To ensure that security administration meets customer requirements.
Administers information Security policies, procedures and process associated
with the web based applications and mainframe applications (RACF).
Act as SPOC for all MIS activities (Volume Trend analysis) and Audits
EDS Tools Remedy, DW-WEB



Achievement:

Played a major role (LIS Team member) in Logical IT Separation (LIS) during ABN
- AMRO (N-Share) split with RBS(R-Share).
Received Spot Ovation award for tested a new application successfully.
Got Star of the month consistent of 4 months for handled more production work.

III) Reliance Communications: (From Dec2006 to Aug2008)

Profile:
Customer Support Executive in Broadband Team.

Responsibilities:
To handle the Technical issues & Queries from the Reliance Broadband Customers.
To provide the information about the billing details & plans to the Customers.

Achievements:
Brought the dissatisfied customers from 100% to less than 5%.
Received Appreciations from more number of Customers.

My Inner Strength(s):
Ability to Master the latest technologies in a short time,selfmotivated, enthusiastic
and flexibility to work under extreme environments.
Dedicationand Diligence towards my work and a good team player.



Skills:
Strong customer service skills; diplomatic and patient.
Genuinely helping people through consultive sales.
Flexible; able and willing to learn new things.
Professional in appearance and work attitude.
Ability to work as a team player as well as independently
Drive to learn, adaptable to changes and high attention to details
Ability to work under pressure

Extracurricular activities:
District Level Chess player
Traveling and exploring the new places.
Playing Key Board [ Music Instrument ]
Explore Cyber security Information.



Personal Profile:
Date of birth 22/08/1985
Sex Male
Nationality Indian
Fathers Name Thiruvengadam.P
Mothers Name Manorama.T
Languages Known English, Tamil, Telugu

Declaration:

I hereby declare that above given detailsare true to the best of my
knowledge.

Yours Truly,
Kathirvel.T