Sooraj Chettiankandy
Singapore
Summary
Personable and strategic individual with deep understanding of cybersecurity principles and best practices. Knowledgeable in network security and threat assessment, with hands-on skills in risk management and incident response. Committed to safeguarding digital assets and creating secure environments.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Cyber Security Manager
NCS Singapore
02.2022 - Current
- Manage and supervise the Security Operations team and provide security expertise leveraging industry leading practices
- Ensure the team is having the necessary skills and knowledge to effectively detect, analyze and respond to security incidents
- Develop security policies by reviewing industry standards and working closely with other departments to understand their security requirements
- Establish goals and priorities by working closely with the team to identify the most critical focus areas such as response times and reducing false positives
- Oversee your staff's activities and ensure they focus on the right priorities
- Ensure the tools are up to date with par to the latest security technologies and oversee the latest security implementation
- Lead the incident response activities by establishing clear incident response procedures and protocols and conveying them to the team
- Serve as the point of contact for the security incidents within the organization
- Keep CISO updated on the security activities within the organization
- Deputed to Monetary Authority of Singapore and Ministry of Health, HSA and HPB
Senior Security Officer
Avaloq Singapore
08.2021 - 02.2022
- Support and maintain the APAC’s Information Security Management System (ISMS) to assure continuous compliance with regulations, laws and contractual obligations by adopting and deploying industry and market standards and accepted best practices
- Support ISMS and Internal Audit with relevant artefacts and submit to auditors
- Perform Vulnerability scans, work with stake holders to remediate the findings
- Perform incident response in case any incident is categorized as true positive
- Manage security operation in various cyber security related activities
Security Risk and Compliance Manager
IBM Singapore
08.2019 - 07.2021
- Driving and tracking all security operations delivery tasks until completion and managing compliance, audit and risk programs within agreed scope of delivery
- Perform Quarterly vulnerability scans and work with respective team to remediate the vulnerabilities
- Performing security/compliance/governance checks regularly and reporting to customer on the findings monthly
- Tracking all issues until closure
- Managing audit (IM8, Internal and external Audits), Reviewing RFIs and validating artefacts, performing gap assessment and mitigate all possible audit issues
- Advising Senior Executive and customer in all security related matters within the organization
- Deputed to Singapore’s Land Transport Authority and IHIS (Healthcare industry)
Senior Security Analyst
Daimler AG Singapore
08.2018 - 08.2019
- Report vulnerabilities based on the scan and ensured all vulnerabilities are addressed by the stake holders within the timeframe
- Perform Risk assessment on the noncompliance issues
- Ensure Identity and access management reviews are conducted on a regular basis to identify the orphan account and act accordingly
- Track patch management activities are running on a regular basis to address the vulnerabilities on a regular window
- Support audit with relevant artefacts
Cyber security Lead
Wipro Infotech
02.2015 - 07.2018
- Monitor security events through SIEM solution and initiate incident response action in case of any incident identified
- Perform threat hunting and identify any malicious files in the environment
- Prepare and share security advisory to the stake holders in case of any vulnerabilities identified ignorer to mitigate the vulnerability on time
- Perform Vulnerability scans on the assets and engage the stake holders in mitigation of the vulnerabilities
- Ensure Antivirus systems are up to date with the latest signatures and all agents are reporting to the management console
- Optimize and create new SIEM rules/alerts according to the organizational and business needs
- Monitor the Arbor console for any potential DDOS attack and inform the respective team if any attack observed
- Deployed to Du Telecom
Senior Security Analyst
Wells Fargo
09.2011 - 01.2015
- Generate personal and public key certificates for email and Wells Fargo applications
- Ensure certificates are renewed as part of the requests received
- Monitor security events via SIEM solution and report incase if any incidents occurred
- Ensure Anti-Virus systems are up to date and have the latest signatures
- Create and schedule vulnerability scans on the Qualys Scanner and share the report with specific system owners
Junior System Administrator
IBM India Pvt Ltd
03.2011 - 09.2011
- Create and delete user profiles through midrange AS400 system
- Create and schedule jobs in AS400 system
- Provide necessary privileges to users on AS400 profiles based on the approved requests
- Perform necessary troubleshooting on the midrange system upon request from the business owner
Education
Bachelor of Engineering -
Rajiv Gandhi College of Engineering, Anna University
11.2009
Skills
- Security Operation Center
- Security Compliance
- EDR
- Security Governance
- SIEM
- Risk Management
- MITRE Attack
- Security Audit
- Malware Analysis
- Vulnerability Scanning
- Security Incident Response
- Data Leakage Prevention
- Intrusion Prevention
- Privileged access management
- Endpoint security
- Log analysis
Certification
- CISSP - (ISC)2 (06/2017 - Present)
- PMP - Project Management Professional (12/2023 - Present)
- Zero Trust Certified Associate (07/2024 -07/2027)
- SSCP - (ISC)2 (09/2014 - Present)
- Azure Fundamentals (03/2021 - Present)
- IBM Security Essentials for Architects (07/2020 - Present)
- Cyber Security Nexus (03/2015 - Present)
- Certified Scrum Master (09/2023 -09/2025)
- OWASP API Security Top10 (10/2023 - Present)
- Strategic Cybersecurity Management - AttackIQ (03/2022 - Present)
- Enterprise Blockchain professional (11/2023 - Present)
- Generative AI Overview for project Managers (07/2024 - Present)
- Zscaler Technical Associate (07/2024 - Present)
- ITIL (04/2011 - Present)
- Certificate of Ethical Hacker (12/2013 - Present)
- AWS Architect Associate (Training Completed)
- AWS Cloud Practitioner (Training Completed)
LANGUAGES
English Native or Bilingual Proficiency
Tamil Full Professional Proficiency
Malayalam Native or Bilingual Proficiency
Hindi Professional Working Proficiency
Telugu Limited Working Proficiency
Kannada Limited Working Proficiency
Hobbies and Interests
Reading
Awards
Spot Award - Managed cyber operation (05/2023 - Present) Singtel
Timeline
Cyber Security Manager
NCS Singapore
02.2022 - Current
Senior Security Officer
Avaloq Singapore
08.2021 - 02.2022
Security Risk and Compliance Manager
IBM Singapore
08.2019 - 07.2021
Senior Security Analyst
Daimler AG Singapore
08.2018 - 08.2019
Cyber security Lead
Wipro Infotech
02.2015 - 07.2018
Senior Security Analyst
Wells Fargo
09.2011 - 01.2015
Junior System Administrator
IBM India Pvt Ltd
03.2011 - 09.2011
- CISSP - (ISC)2 (06/2017 - Present)
- PMP - Project Management Professional (12/2023 - Present)
- Zero Trust Certified Associate (07/2024 -07/2027)
- SSCP - (ISC)2 (09/2014 - Present)
- Azure Fundamentals (03/2021 - Present)
- IBM Security Essentials for Architects (07/2020 - Present)
- Cyber Security Nexus (03/2015 - Present)
- Certified Scrum Master (09/2023 -09/2025)
- OWASP API Security Top10 (10/2023 - Present)
- Strategic Cybersecurity Management - AttackIQ (03/2022 - Present)
- Enterprise Blockchain professional (11/2023 - Present)
- Generative AI Overview for project Managers (07/2024 - Present)
- Zscaler Technical Associate (07/2024 - Present)
- ITIL (04/2011 - Present)
- Certificate of Ethical Hacker (12/2013 - Present)
- AWS Architect Associate (Training Completed)
- AWS Cloud Practitioner (Training Completed)
Bachelor of Engineering -
Rajiv Gandhi College of Engineering, Anna University
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