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Cybersecurity Consultant
Ernst & Young
Jul 2023 - Jul 2024
Enhanced SOC operations by designing and deploying 4+ SOAR playbooks to automate alert triage, enrichment, and response actions, reducing mean time to response (MTTR) by 25% for high-severity incidents. Monitored and analyzed 1000+ daily security alerts using Splunk and QRadar, correlating SIEM, network, and endpoint logs to identify suspicious activity patterns and enable early detection and mitigation of multiple critical threats. Automated vulnerability management by integrating SOAR with FortiRecon, categorizing 100+ assets into structured reports and auto-creating cases in Freshworks ITSM, improving triage efficiency by 40%. Improved incident escalation and accountability by implementing automated email notifications to asset and division owners, reducing response coordination time by 30% and ensuring faster, cross-team remediation of security incidents.
Cybersecurity Intern
Netcon Technologies
Feb 2023 - Jul 2023
Supported SOC operations by monitoring and triaging 500+ security alerts per week across Wazuh SIEM tool, network and endpoint logs, assessing severity and business impact to accurately escalate confirmed threats to senior analysts. Assisted with vulnerability management by reviewing 50+ vulnerability scan findings per cycle, validating exploitability, tracking remediation progress and identifying recurring configuration weaknesses across systems and network infra. Conducted threat hunting by analyzing 1000+ authentication events, network traffic flows and endpoint telemetry, identifying 5+ indicators of compromise, including failed login spikes, suspicious authentication behavior and IP activity.
Education
Master of Science, Cybersecurity - University at Buffalo, State University of New York
2024 - 2025 · Afghanistan
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering - PES University
2019 - 2023 · Afghanistan
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