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Education
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Certification
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Extracurricular Activities
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Ramakanth P

Ramakanth P

Hyderabad

Summary

Cyber Security Specialist with 6+ years of experience in Red Team, Vulnerability Assessment and Penetrating testing and Security Audit & Compliance.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Red Team Professional

ValueMomentum
03.2022 - Current
  • Conducted extensive red team security audits for multiple clients to understand their security posture, identify potential risks and recommend defense solutions
  • Performed various authorized VAPT activities on internal corporate network & applications as part of Org Wide VPAT exercise
  • Conducted an extensive internal risk assessment of applications & systems' ports to identify & evaluate potential risks
  • Worked on multiple red team tools like Cobalt Strike, Metasploit framework, Responder,etc and also worked on multiple VA tools like Qualys VMDR, nessus & openvas
  • Recommend improvements in security systems and procedures
  • Proved successful working within tight deadlines and a fast-paced environment.

Analyst

HCL Technologies
03.2019 - Current
  • Perform penetration tests to assess the vulnerabilities of various connected systems, networks, and applications including Windows and Linux based Platforms
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot UNIX and Windows server vulnerabilities and suggest solutions to increase internet security
  • Recommend network security standards to management
  • Competent in Linux operating system configuration and utilities

Assistant Systems Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
07.2017 - 07.2018
  • Work with managers to improve security processes and procedures
  • Providing support on global network security infrastructure – Incident and Event management
  • Perform Security Monitoring
  • Create reports and dashboard to provide metrics for Security operations in a meaningful way for Senior Management

Education

Bachelors' in Technology - Computer Engineering

Vellore Institute of Technology
Chennai, India
01.2017

Class 12 - Science

Sri Chaitanya Jr. College
Vijayawada, India
01.2013

Class 10 - Secondary Education

Gowtham International School
01.2011

Skills

  • Cobalt Strike

  • Kali Linux

  • Hydra

  • BurpSuite

  • Metasploit

  • Nmap

  • Wireshark

  • Windows

  • Linux

  • Penetration Testing

  • Steganography

  • Scripting

  • Bash

  • Python

  • Password Hash Cracking

Certification

  • Certified Vulnerability Assessor(CVA) - Mile2, July 2024
  • Certified Ethical Hacker(CEH) - EC Council, June 2024
  • Master Certificate in Cyber Security (Red Team) - HackerU, Israel, Sep 2021
  • On Job Cyber Security Training - PurpleSynapz Research and Training Lab, Sep 2019
  • Xtreme Web Hacking (XWH) - Nullcon Security Training, June 2018

Projects

  • Windows hacking Activity in Information Security Courseware, Dec 2016, VIT University - Done a Mini Activity that demonstrates how to hack a Windows XP machine using Server Message Block(SMB) Vulnerability as part of our University's Information Security Course using Metasploit Framework.
  • Remote Monitoring of an Industrial Boiler-An Internet of Things(IOT) Approach, May 2017 - VIT University - Internet of Things(IOT) Approach for Industry Automation in Remote Monitoring of an industrial Boiler using Raspberry Pi Embedded device as part of our University's Final Year project.

Extracurricular Activities

  • Regular Volunteering and Participating in Marathons for NGO's & Charities to raise funds on behalf of ValueMomentum Software Services, Hyderabad
  • Participated in Microsoft Workshop based on the topic 'Cloud Computing in Azure' held at VIT University, Chennai.
  • Submitted & Published a thesis titled 'Analysis of Packets in Wireshark' as part of University's course assignment.

Timeline

Red Team Professional

ValueMomentum
03.2022 - Current

Analyst

HCL Technologies
03.2019 - Current

Assistant Systems Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
07.2017 - 07.2018
  • Certified Vulnerability Assessor(CVA) - Mile2, July 2024
  • Certified Ethical Hacker(CEH) - EC Council, June 2024
  • Master Certificate in Cyber Security (Red Team) - HackerU, Israel, Sep 2021
  • On Job Cyber Security Training - PurpleSynapz Research and Training Lab, Sep 2019
  • Xtreme Web Hacking (XWH) - Nullcon Security Training, June 2018

Bachelors' in Technology - Computer Engineering

Vellore Institute of Technology

Class 12 - Science

Sri Chaitanya Jr. College

Class 10 - Secondary Education

Gowtham International School
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