SUMMARY

• 9+ years of Information Security, design and development experience in information security architecture, cloud security, cryptography, security assurance, threat modeling, IT risk assessments, SSO, and risk remediation activities.
• Working knowledge of OWASP Top 10 and SANS Top 25 software guidelines, Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council's (FFIEC) regulations, including Payment Card Industry (PCI - DSS), HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley Section404 (SOX).
• Working knowledge of Imperva and AWS Cloud Security in implementing Web Application Firewalls (WAF).
• Experience in implementing Security Incident and Event Management System (SIEM) using HP ArcSight, Splunk.
• Hands-on with Penetration Testing, DAST, SAST and manual ethical hacking.
• Experience in conducting IT Security Risk Assessments in accordance to NIST and FFIEC framework
• In-depth knowledge of penetration testing for web and mobile (iOS and Android) applications
• Expertise in Application Security and identifying and fixing OWASP Top 10 and SANS 25 security vulnerabilities.
• Strong foundation and In-depth technical knowledge of security engineering, computer and network security, authentication and security protocols.
• Experience in conducting IT Security Risk Assessments in accordance to NIST and FFIEC
• An efficient team player in challenging and creative environment with excellent capacity to adapt new technologies and skills.
• Possess strong technical aptitude with strong analytical, work ethic, problem solving and communication skills.
• Proficiency with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, Java Script and Power Shell.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Security Tools: AppDetect, AppRador, Oracle IdentityManager, Oracle Access Manager,JHijack, Metasploit Pro, ZED attack proxy, SQLMAP, Wireshark, WebScarab, Paros, Nmap, BMC BladeLogic, Nessus, Rapid7 Nexpose, Tripwire, Symantec DLP, DBProtect, ArcSight SIEM, e-DMZ Password Auto DBProtect, ArcSight SIEM, e-DMZ Password AutoRepository (PAR), Varonis, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud security.

Port/Vulnerability Scanning: Nmap/Nmap Scripting Networking Symantec Vontu DLP, Checkpoint, PaloEngine (NSE), Netcat, Nessus, Openvas Alto, Check Point, Cisco, IDS/IPS, Anti-virus, BMCPassword Cracking Hydra, Rainbow Crack, Blade Logic, Remedy. 0phcrack, John the Ripper, Pyrit.

Cloud Security: Amazon Web Services (AWS) and MS Azure, Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), Cloud Security Access Broker (CASB).

DAST and SAST tools: IBM AppScan Enterprise Scripting Languages AngularJS, XML, XSLT, XPath, (ASE), Standard & Source editions, HP WebInspect, XQuery, HTML/JavaScript/JQuery, QualysGuard, BurpSuite Pro, Acunetix, Fortify SCA, AJAX.Middleware TIBCO EMS, IBM WebSphere SQLMAPMQ, JMSDatabases Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase.

Operating Systems: Oracle Solaris UNIX, RedHat Application Servers Weblogic Server, iPlanet, LINUX 4/5, Windows Server2003/2008. Netscape Application Server and Microsoft Java & J2EE Technology Spring Framework, EJBs,IIS.

DevSecOps: AWS CodePipeline, CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub, IBM AppScan automation.

Middleware: TIBCO EMS, IBM WebSphere MQ, JMS.

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase.

Languages: Java, Python, C/C++, C#.NET, Perl, Struts2, Servlets, JavaServerPages (JSPs), JMS, Java UML. Mail API, JNDI, LDAP, JDBC, JTS, RMI, AWT, Swing, Socket Programming, IONA Orbix CORBA.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Manassas, VA

Sr. Application Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed security assessments (asset inventory, scanning, manual code reviews, penetration tests) of applications using HP Fortify, IBM AppScan, Nessus, HP WebInspect, Veracode and ZAProxy to verify compliance with policies, standards, best practices and worked with developers on vulnerability mitigation.
• Conducted application penetration testing of 85+ business applications.
• In-depth internal and external network penetration tests.
• Performed Web Application Security /Penetration Testing in accordance with OWASP standards.
• Conducted security testing of Internet of Things (IoT) and provided recommendations to resolve the security vulnerabilities.
• Performed static/dynamic code testing, manual code inspection, threat modeling, Data Modeling, design reviews and penetration testing of internal web applications and external partner applications to identify vulnerabilities and security defects.
• Implemented Multifactor Authentication (MFA) for AWS root accounts, including password rotation policies. Set up Access Keys and Secret Assess Keys for newly created users.
• Develop security requirements for applications and infrastructure deployed in the Cloud. Ensured that Cloud security best practices have been followed.
• Configured AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) to securely store the organization’s critical file systems. Implemented Access Control Lists (ACLs) and Bucket Policies for controlling access to the data.
• Implemented Security Group Policies for Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Storage Service (S3), Docker Containers, ECS, ECRs within AWS. Developed AWS Service Roles to protect Identity Provider access.
• Participated in the implementation of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Implemented multiple layers of security, including security groups, network access control lists, to control access to Amazon EC2 instances in each subnet.
• Participated in the implementation of AWS Cloud security for applications being deployed in the Cloud. Developed WACLS for AWS Web Application Firewalls (WAF) and configured the rules and conditions to detect security vulnerabilities in the Cloud Front.
• Participated in the implementation of data tokenization in various environments to ensure compliance to regulations.
• Developed AWS Security Groups to control traffic to various instances in the Cloud.
• Automated the security scanning process as part of DevSecOps efforts using Jenkins, Maven, Gradle to support CI/CD inititatves.
• Implemented security around Dockers to ensure Containers and the data present in them are secured as part of secureSDLC. The OpenStack software has been used for building the Cloud environment.
• Worked extensively with software development teams to review the source code, triage the security vulnerabilities generated by IBM AppScan, BurpSuite, Whitehat Sentinel, HP WebInspect, HP Fortify, Checkmarx, Contrast Security and eliminated false positives.
• Conducted vulnerability assessments using Rapid7 products. Specifically, the tools such as MetaspolitPro,AppSpider have been used for identifying security vulnerabilities.
• Implemented Symantec & McAfee DLP product and configured policies for detecting data loss across the organization.
• Triaged security vulnerabilities to eliminate false positives and worked with the developers for remediation.
• Performed on Splunk Enterprise Deployments and enabled continuous integration on as part of configuration ( props.conf, Transforms.conf, Output.confg ) management.
• Performed with Splunk authentication and permissions and having significant experience in supporting large scale Splunk deployments.
• Monitored Security Management Console for Security Operation Centre (SOC) for ensuring confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of Information systems.
• Managed quality control within the SOC to ensure that outgoing communications and tracking forms are compliant with SOPs and error free through the random auditing of incident communications.
• Conducted scan reviews and provide recommendations to client with regards to SIEM rules, policy tuning, blocking recommendations, incident handling, and vulnerability remediation.
• Reviewed Azure network security architecture and implemented security controls. Specifically, Azure virtual networks, including on-premise connectivity, traffic filtering, secure communication, point-to-site VPN etc.,
• Implemented Network Security Groups (NSG) to control network traffic to various Azure network resources. Created NSG rules (inbound and outbound) and prioritized the rules based on the requirements. Associated NSGs to VMs, NICs, and subnets based on the deployment model.
• Validated database security for SQL servers deployed in Azure Cloud environment. Implemented Integrated Windows authentication supported by Azure Active Directory.
• Enabled threat detection for databases in the Azure portal. The security alerts generated in the Azure Security Center have been reviewed and remediated.
• Implemented Azure Key Vault for storing secrets.
• Developed security controls for implementing Azure storage security. The RBAC with Azure AD has been implemented for securing the storage account. The data transmission between applications and Azure has been secured by client-side encryption, HTTPS, SMB3.0.
• Azure disk encryption has been implemented for encrypting OS and data disks.
• Provided security code reviews using Veracode and Checkmarx and evaluate results for security vulnerabilities.
• Conducted penetration tests on systems and applications using automated and manual techniques with tools such as Metasploit, Kali Linux, WebInspect, Burp Suite, AppScan, and Nessus.
• Participated in the development of IT security risk assessments for enterprise applications. The NIST framework has been utilized for IT risk assessments. This included leading the data discovery meetings, identification of existing controls and validates them against the expected controls. The control gaps or non-compliance to security policies were presented to the stake holders for remediation.
• Interacted with third party vendors in conducting security assessments and security compliance audits (Type 1 and Type II).
• Specifically, security testing has been performed to identify XML External Entity (XXE) , Cross-Site Scripting, ClickJacking, and SQL Injection related attacks within the code.
• Developed Security requirements for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) specifically for Data at Endpoint, Data In-transit, and Data at rest.
• Reviewed source code (Java/J2EE/Spring/FTL/JavaScript) and developed security filters within IBM AppScan for critical applications.
• Implemented OAuth2.0, SAML and Single Sign-on (SSO) for AzureAD & Mobile applications for corporate applications Working knowledge of OSSTMM, OWASP Top 10 and SANS Top 25 software guidelines, Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council's (FFIEC) regulations, including Payment Card Industry (PCI-DSS), HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley Section404 (SOX).
• Performed security assessments for various types of Operating Systems (O/S) used by the firm. The security audits of RedHat Linux, Unix, SharePoint, Oracle Solaris, SunOne, AD, Ping LDAP Windows (including Active Directory) and IBM AIX were conducted. Several security control enhancements were recommended.
• Performed the configuration of security solutions like RSA two factor authentication, Single Sign on (SSO), Symantec Vontu DLP and log aggregation and analysis using HP ArcSight SIEM.
• Extensively worked with cyber security assessments, risk analysis, recommend security requirements, participate in code reviews, provide security defect remediation guidance, and served as a consultant to other business units while acting as an Application Security Subject Matter Expert (SME).
• Conducted security assessments to ensure compliance to firm's security standards (i.e., OWASP Top 10, SANS25).
• Rolled out IBM AppScan products such as AppScan Enterprise (ASE), Standard, Source, Checkmark , Developer plug-ins to various development teams across the business lines.
• Installed and supported over 30 Microsoft Windows Servers in an Active Directory Cluster.
• Prepared technical architecture proposals for enhancements and integration of existing third party software systems.
• Generated executive summary reports showing the security assessments results, recommendations (CWE, CVE) and risk mitigation plans and presented them to the respective business sponsors and senior management.
• Working knowledge of OWASP Top 10 and SANS Top 25 software guidelines, Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council's (FFIEC) regulations, including Payment Card Industry (PCI-DSS), HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley Section404 (SOX).
• Conducted monthly developer workshops to educate and train developers on secureSDLC , scan source code using IBM AppScan Source, triage and resolve the security vulnerabilities.
• Participated in the implementation of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Implemented multiple layers of security, including security groups, network access control lists, to control access to Amazon EC2 instances in each subnet.
• Working knowledge of AWS Cloud Security in implementing Web Application Firewalls (WAF).
• Doing multiple level of testing before production to ensure smooth deployment cycle.
• Performed vulnerability testing using tools such as Nessus and Qualysguard .
• Maintains network performance by performing network monitoring and analysis, and performance tuning, troubleshooting network problems.
• Skilled using Burp Suite, Acunetix Automatic Scanner, NMAP , Dirbuster, Qualysguard, Nessus, SQLMap for web application penetration tests and infrastructure testing.
• Proficient in understanding application level vulnerabilities like XSS, SQL Injection, CSRF, authentication bypass, cryptographic attacks, authentication flaws etc.

Confidential, St.Louis, MO

Sr. Application Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in using the DAST tools (Like IBM Appscan and Burpsuite Pro) while the application is running to penetrate the application in various ways to identify potential vulnerabilities outside the code and in third party interfaces.
• Administered Maintained, and Deployed Imperva web application firewall, Checkpoint IPS & VPN systems, and McAfee network based Data Loss Prevention (DLP) devices.
• Carbon Black Threat Hunter has been utilized to investigate and hunt for abnormal of various processes running on the end-points. Developed interactive and expandable attack chain pattern for binary and unfiltered data.
• Analyzed security incidents originated from various network/application monitoring devices (e.g., Symantec Vontu DLP) and coordinated with Engineering teams for tracking and problem escalation, including remediation.
• Instrumental in architecting, implementing and administrating a Security and Information Event Management (SIEM) solution (QRADAR) to automate the correlation of I-Series, Windows and network devices. Utilized QRADAR for internal and External IDS, in addition to Cisco IPS.
• Conducting Web Application Vulnerability Assessment & Threat Modeling, Data Gap Analysis, secure code review on the applications.
• Performed the penetration testing of mobile (Android and iOS) applications, specifically, APK reverse engineering, traffic analysis and manipulation, dynamic runtime analysis.
• Developed secure SDLC policies and standards for Web and Mobile apps.
• Working knowledge of SSO implementation for the applications deployed in MS Azure cloud platform.
• Developed, implemented and migrated applications based on NIST Framework.
• Developed information assurance (IA) designs to meet specific operational needs and environmental factors
• Participated in the implementation of AWS Cloud security for applications being deployed in the Cloud.
• Configured AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) to securely store the organization’s critical file systems. Implemented Access Control Lists (ACLs) and Bucket Policies for controlling access to the data. .
• Developed WACLS and configured to rules and conditions to detect security vulnerabilities in the Cloud Front.
• Experience with SaaS applications in configuring and deploying to the cloud platform Worked with DevOps teams to automate security scanning into the build process.
• Worked extensively with software development teams to review the source code, triage the security vulnerabilities generated by IBM AppScan, BurpSuite, HP WebInspect, HP Fortify, Checkmarx and eliminated false positives.
• Reviewed Android and iOS mobile source code manually and recommended code fixes.
• Participated in the Proof of Concept (POC) in implementing Arxan application protection software for Mobile apps.
• Performed Root Cause Analysis for the incidents reported at Security Operations Center.
• Performed Security event monitoring of heterogeneous networks such as Firewalls, IDS/IPS, CiscoASA, DLP devices using Splunk.
• Solved many problems on call with my knowledge on the applications using event logs on the system / server and telemetry logs on the server, later started using Splunk for health monitoring, analysis and reporting.
• Wrote load balancing scripts on servers using Power Shell on Windows Server 2008 in order to perform Network load balancing and later started Network load balancing using Citrix NetScaler ADC.
• Used Remedy Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) tool for managing the incidents based on the priorities and solved issues which are in security domain.
• Generated Vulnerability reports to monitor health of the applications and also reported High, Medium and low vulnerabilities in these system.
• Troubleshoot network application inbound/outbound connectivity utilizing Cisco WSA proxies and Wireshark.
• Actively involved on Bridges in solving High / Severe incidents reported in the application or in environment. Reported all my findings on the incident status to the higher management, clients in timely fashion.
• Held Responsibility for Securing and Maintaining 14 legacy applications, 10 geographically separated application servers and around 200 Citrix Servers along with a small team.

Environment: Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Cisco ASA, DLP, ITSM, WireShark, NetScaler, Splunk.

Confidential

Security Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided project planning, guidance and technical expertise in program, policy, process, and planning; risk management, auditing, and assessments; A&A; and quality planning and control.
• Researched and analyzed known hacker methodology, system exploits and vulnerabilities to support Red Team Assessment activities
• Performed advanced security testing of F5 load balancers, Websense V10K & BlueCoat Proxies using virtual machines, security tools, and URL generator.
• Assisted with the update and administration of all SOX audit requirements from an IT internal controls perspective.
• Provided with Threat profiling of the application to the Client and prepared combined reports of level of risks, their trend, and frequency to the client
• Conducted white/gray box penetration testing on the financial systems using Kali Linux, Cobalt Strike for OWASP top 10 Vulnerabilities like XSS, SQL Injection, CSRF, Privilege Escalation and all the test-case of a web application security testing
• QRadar licensing updates by adding new license under Admin and System and License Management Ironport URL filtering for known bad URL content Ironport
• Mail analysis and blocking for known bad emails Analysis of pcap files using FireEye and Wireshark System audit and analysis using DOD checklist for PA series
• Threat and virus scanning using Malware bytes from centralized console Enforcement of policies and procedures for users, admins, and management
• Reverse engineering of malware using tools like process hacker and so on Incident response tabletop exercise by documenting and alerting necessary personnel

Environment: Load Balancers, OWASP, Kali Linux.