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Mashooque Ali

Lahore

Summary

I am a cybersecurity professional having more than 3+ years of industry experience having satisfying skills which include.

- Incident Investigation and Response.
- Alert Triaging.
- SOC Onboarding.
- Customer Visible Incident Reports.
- Automation for Closing the Incidents.
- Optimization of the SOC Environment.
- Data Connectors Setup.
- Isolated Environment Setup.
- Email Campaign Setup.

I have worked many SIEM solutions, EDRs, and ticketing systems to enhance the internal and customer SOC environment which include.

- Wazuh, Splunk, MS Sentinel, StrikeReady.
- MS Defender, Deep-Instinct, CrowdStrike.
- ServiceNow, Jira

During investigations we get help from Microsoft Security Copilot and ChatGPT to get rapid information about the incidents at ServiceNow and close them without wasting time in diving into different tools.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

SOC Analyst L2

TECHNOGENICS SMC PVT LTD
Lahore, Pakistan
03.2023 - Current
  • Handle incidents escalated from L1
  • Identifying entities to automate the incident closing operations in Microsoft Sentinel.
  • Creating custom workbooks with KQL queries in Microsoft Sentinel
  • Customer on-boarding
  • Creating playbooks to perform manual actions like revoke sign in, isolate machine etc
  • Creating endpoint and firewall policies
  • Creating analytical rules and alert tuning.
  • Enhance and manage threat intel according to the business activity of customer

Security Analyst

FREELANCING
09.2018 - Current
  • Tutoring
  • Information Security Report Writing
  • SOC Operations Automation
  • Writing Rules and Decoders
  • IOC Extraction and Deployment
  • Penetration Testing.

SOC Analyst L1

TECHNOGENICS SMC PVT LTD
Lahore, Pakistan
07.2021 - 03.2023
  • Monitored Network, VPN, Endpoint, and Email logs using SIEM Tool
  • Investigated the incidents of cloud PCs and on-premises endpoints from multiple customers in 24/7 shift
  • Incident response with proper customer visible working notes
  • Configured and deployed SIEM tools from scratch
  • Log forwarding from EDR and Firewall to SIEM
  • Installed and configured firewalls, EDRs and SEIMs for isolated environments
  • Setup Phishing Awareness campaigns using GoPhish and deployed cyber ranges
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to implement and update disaster recovery plans.
  • Mentored junior employees in departmental activities and procedures.

Education

BS in Computer Science -

SUKKUR IBA UNIVERSITY
08.2021

FSc in Pre-Engineering -

EVER SHINE COLLEGE
07.2016

Skills

  • Alert Triage
  • Incident Response
  • Automation
  • Interpersonal Communication
  • Problem-Solving
  • Scripting Languages
  • Reporting and documentation
  • Security Needs Assessment
  • Task Prioritization
  • Information Protection
  • Security Planning

Certification

  • Cyber Security Tools and Cyber Attacks (IBM)
  • MS-102 (Microsoft)
  • SC-200 (Microsoft)
  • SC-900 (Microsoft)
  • Jr Penetration Tester (TryHackMe)

Coursework

  • Information Security
  • Operating Systems
  • Network Security
  • Internet of Things
  • Computer Networking

Personal Projects

  • Deployed Complete SOC with Open Source Stack (Wazuh, PFSense, OSSEC, OsTicket)
  • Developed Multi-Antivirus service for malware analysis locally (Similar to VirusTotal but works locally)
  • Developed an isolated environment for malware detonations.
  • Developed IoT Based Real Time Patient Health Monitoring System using IoT Sensors, micro-controllers, and IoT web-server.
  • Simulated and launched all cyber Attacks like, XSS, phishing, DDoS etc

Languages

Urdu
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
German
Beginner (A1)
A1

Accomplishments

  • Employee of the year 2022
  • Runner up in University Level Hackathon (2021, Top 2/150)

Affiliations

  • Honored with Sindh Endowment Education Support Scholarship for 4 years (2018, Top 50/1000)
  • Honored with Talent Hunt Program Education Support Scholarship for 6 Months (2017, Top 300/5000)

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

SOC Analyst L2

TECHNOGENICS SMC PVT LTD
03.2023 - Current

SOC Analyst L1

TECHNOGENICS SMC PVT LTD
07.2021 - 03.2023

Security Analyst

FREELANCING
09.2018 - Current

BS in Computer Science -

SUKKUR IBA UNIVERSITY

FSc in Pre-Engineering -

EVER SHINE COLLEGE
  • Cyber Security Tools and Cyber Attacks (IBM)
  • MS-102 (Microsoft)
  • SC-200 (Microsoft)
  • SC-900 (Microsoft)
  • Jr Penetration Tester (TryHackMe)
Mashooque Ali