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PRASANNA KUMAR A

Senior SOC Engineer/Analyst
Chennai

Summary

Experienced SOC Engineer/Analyst with a strong background in SOC Operations (SIEM/XSIAM), Incident Response, and Cloud Security. Adept at working in fast-paced environments and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure robust security postures.

Overview

2026
2026
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
2
2
Languages

Work History

Senior SOC Engineer/Analyst

Freshworks
10.2022 - Current
  • Monitored security alerts and events using the Logscale, Humio SIEM, and Palo Alto XDR solutions.
  • Created new security use cases and correlation rules.
  • Acted as Cybersecurity Incident Commander, overseeing incident management from detection to resolution.
  • Creating reports for cybersecurity incidents.
  • Work experience in CSPM, CWP, and WAF.
  • Established a Cybersecurity Event Response Plan for SOC Operations.
  • Contributed to the SIEM migration of Logscale, Humio, to Palo Alto XSIAM.
  • Creating XSIAM playbooks for new use cases that trigger and automate the alert triaging.
  • Contributed to developing a runbook for SOC alerts and operations playbooks.
  • Presented weekly and monthly metrics to the Senior Manager.

Senior Security Analyst (IT Security)

ATOS PALADION NETWORKS Pvt Ltd
3 2021 - 10.2022
  • Worked onsite for leading BANK for Asia Pacific (APAC) Region on real-time threat management alert handling and analysis of true and false events
  • Worked on threat actors on daily basis and contributed to threat hunt and mitigations
  • Analyzing Phishing and Quarantine emails
  • Incident Handling and root cause analysis
  • Continuous Monitoring and mitigation of network traffic for DDOS
  • Involved in operational Quality Audits and Reports
  • Preparation of Weekly and monthly scheduled reports on reconnaissance activity and mitigating it
  • Preparation of daily shift reports by analyzing entire set of recorded Log Events at all Security Devices for client.

Associate Security Analyst (SOC)

Comodo Security Solution Pvt Ltd
10.2018 - 01.2021
  • Monitoring SIEM solution alerts
  • Monitor and analyze network flow data for anomalies and detect malicious network activity
  • Validate alerts whether it is true or false positives.
  • Provide information regarding intrusion events, security incidents and other threat indications and warning functions
  • Incident handling and management
  • Containment and Quarantine of events in Endpoint
  • Documentation: Ticket generation, Maintenance and closure
  • Escalation to L2, recording incident and Preparing Notification
  • Preparation of daily & weekly reports on security activities in client's network
  • Collection of IOCs for regular fine-tuning and updating to correlation rules to reduce false positives.
  • Sending Notifications and preparing weekly operational reports.

Education

B.E (Electronics & Instrumentation) -

St.Joseph's College of Engineering
01.2012 - 2015.04

Diploma (ECE) -

Panimalar Polytechnic College
01.2009 - 2012.04

Skills

  • SOC Operations
  • Incident Response
  • Threat Hunting
  • Phishing Analysis
  • SIEM/XSIAM
  • AWS
  • XDR
  • SSPM,CWP & WAF
  • SOC Metrics

Certification

CEH (v10) (2020)

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Timeline

CompTIA CYSA+

03-2025

Senior SOC Engineer/Analyst

Freshworks
10.2022 - Current

Associate Security Analyst (SOC)

Comodo Security Solution Pvt Ltd
10.2018 - 01.2021

B.E (Electronics & Instrumentation) -

St.Joseph's College of Engineering
01.2012 - 2015.04

Diploma (ECE) -

Panimalar Polytechnic College
01.2009 - 2012.04

Senior Security Analyst (IT Security)

ATOS PALADION NETWORKS Pvt Ltd
3 2021 - 10.2022

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