Venkatesh Sandra
Mobile : 9663063298
Email : venkatesh120296@gmail.com Current Location : Bangalore, INDIA
CAREER OBJECTIVE
Dynamic,Confident and effective problem-solving professional with 3.2 years of experience
in Cyber Security field Extremely in Vulnerability Management, interested in an Information
Security Analyst position with the organization that can apply analytical, technical, and
innovation skills to support and guard organizations against security breaches.
Technical Skills
VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT: Qualys Guard.
NETWORKING: Networking Basics
SECURITY TOOLS: Qualys
TICKETING TOOL: Service Now.
ITIL: Change Management
PRPFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Current Company: Syntel Private Limited.
Designation: Associate Consultant.
Client: Nest.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Information Security: Vulnerability Management
Experience in Vulnerability assessment and Administration, installation, and
configuration of Qualys scanners for the given infrastructure and
VulnerabilityManagement.
Manage the BAU activities and ensure the daily operations run smoothly
including Client/ Customer Management, Forecasting and Planning,
Managing key business metrics like SLAS.
Support the vulnerability tools and dashboards used to scan and report
vulnerabilities. Enter, track and report exceptions for un-remediated
vulnerabilities.
Organizing network-based scans to identify possible network security attacks
and host-based scans to identify vulnerabilities in workstations, servers and
other network hosts.
Create and review vulnerability reports to ensure accuracy, identifying areas
for improvement.
On-Boarding and Decommission of servers to Qualys Tool
Helping POCs to install the Qualys Cloud agents on the servers
Troubleshooting QCA and Authentication issues.
Prepare KPI and SLA reports and review the reports on monthly basis.
Understand the security requirement and compliance policy of the clients.
Running Policy compliance scans on servers and sharing the report with patching
team to measure all CID’S as per standards.
Maintain and manage exceptions and false positives.
Approving and tracking FP & Exceptions Based on Evidence shared by Server
owners.
Helping to server owners while installing cloud agents on servers.
Fixing the Agent check-in issues on the servers.
Previous Company: Tavant Technologies India Private Limited.
Designation: Sr Software Engineer.
Client: Hanon Systems.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Information Security: Vulnerability Management
Prepare weekly/monthly report submit it to platform teams for remediation.
Coordinate all the platform teams for remediation and track the remediation.
Perform rescan on servers after installing patches to check whether the vulnerability
is Remediated or not.
Host weekly remediation call with the platform teams.
Performing the agents cleanup activity on monthly basis.
Tracking the Incidents and providing the status to teams.
Delivering the reports to the stakeholders with out delay.
Run Ad-hoc scans immediately if any of the vulnerability majorly impacting the
infrastructure worldwide.
Raising Tickets with Qualys vendor to get support for the issues which we faced in
real time.
Monitoring status of Scanners and follow up with POC to bring scanners online if
in case scanners went to offline.
Submit the report to clients and platform teams to take necessary action on failed
controls.
Previous Company: Alcobrake India Pvt. Ltd.
Designation: Software Engineer.
Client: Siemens
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Information Security: Vulnerability Management
Maintaining and updating the CMDB for in scope servers.
Running reports for completed scans and preparing customized reports to share with
patching team.
Host weekly remediation call with the platform teams.
Strong communication, collaboration & team building skills with proficiency at
grasping new technical concepts quickly & utilizing the same in a productive
manner.
Work on with troubleshooting techniques for the IP’s are not reachable/failed in
scan.
Adding assets into subscription and respective asset groups.
Perform the Adhoc scans based on the I/O teams request
Certifications/Trainings
Qualys Certified specialist from Qualys guard Vendor.
CCNA Trained.
EDUCATION QUALIFICATION
Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Muthayammal
Engineering College, Namakkal.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
● Date of Birth : 2 0 /02/1996.
● Marital Status : Single.
● Language proficiency : English, Telugu, Tamil.
DECLARATION
I hereby declare that all the above stated information is true to the best of my knowledge and
I bear the responsibility for the correctness of the above-mentioned particulars.
DATE : Venkatesh Sandra
PLACE : Bangalore
