Seema Akbar

Experience

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  Sephora USA, Inc.

  May 2013 - Aug 2014

  Security Analyst

  - Worked in a 24x7 Security Operations Center - Conduct security assessments on OS, network and application vulnerability assessments to identify security weaknesses- Support monitoring and reporting mechanisms to effectively communicate accurate and current status of the environment and respond accordingly - Create, maintain and ensure adherence to baselines, security policies, procedures, guidelines and control standards. - System security monitoring and response to system and Server security incidents Work closely with IT teams on identifying and remediation of systems with security issues. - Assist in or facilitate the implementation of protective and mitigating controls. - Analyze proactive system vulnerability and recommend corrective measures Participate in the evaluation, design, and deployment of security solutions - Day to day management of Information security platforms - Participate in both internal and external audits.- Continuous monitoring and interpretation of threats using the IDS and SIEM Show less

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  TIAA

  Mar 2016 - Jul 2018

  Splunk Admin / Developer

  - Configurations with deployment server, indexers, search heads, serverclass.conf, server.conf, apps.conf, props.conf, transform.conf, forwarder management configurations. - Built Analytics for Workflow logs and Session logs of informatica on Job Failures, errors, stats. - Created and triggered various dropdowns and drilldowns by using Splunk static Lookups. - Monitor the applications and server infrastructure for optimization, performance and Utilization metrics. - Experience in developing dashboards and customizing them. - Implemented various visualization Add-ons to the developed dashboards - Supporting migration from Splunk On Premise data center to Amazon AWS - Launching, Configuring, Supporting large scale instances on AWS - Created Splunk dashboards, data models, reports and applications, indexing, tagging and field extraction in Splunk Show less

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  Carpenter Co.

  Aug 2018 - Mar 2021

  SPLUNK Engineer

  -Provide support and maintain the Splunk infrastructure with Windows and Linux environment - Responsible for Splunk Installation, Configuration, Troubleshooting and maintenance of Splunk components like (Search Head, Indexers, Heavy Forwarders and Deployment server) - Working with data owners for on-boarding various kinds of data feeds into Splunk. - Maintained password for correct authentication of users and administrators that were stored in Cyber Ark/AD and resolve password issues that may come up from time to time with the administrators and groups/users. Knowledge of PKI encryption and decryption functionalities.- Cyber Ark Vault Maintenances. Building CyberArk safes and adding different applications/portfolios in the safes. Active Directory group/user authentication and maintenances. Authentication and Authorization of Privilege users working with Cyber Ark and Access Management.- Deployment/Configuration of ArcSight ESM/Logger/Smart Connectors; integration of Splunk environment with ArcSight environment. Identifying specific events, transform events in CEF, and execute real time searches and forwarding of events in SIEM.- Ability to multitask, prioritize and take charge, using Splunk ITSI to create ITSI services and ITSI KPI’s to increase our monitor in coverage. - Experience in ITSI Modules process data collected using Splunk Add-ons and create Multiple KPI’s Experience in building custom searches and visualizations in both Splunk Core and Splunk ITSI. Show less

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  Merck

  Mar 2021 - now