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Manzar Alam

Manzar Alam

Elite Intern

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    SOAR Engineer | Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR | Microsoft Sentine | D3 SOAR | Resilient | IBM QRadar

  • Education

    • St. Joseph' School

      2002 - 2012
      Matriculation Science

    • DAV Kapil Dev Public School

      2012 - 2014
      Intermediate Science

    • NIST University

      2015 - 2019
      Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science

  • Experience

    • Wipro

      Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
      Elite Intern

      • Research and Development on different charts frameworks for web development like d3 charts, high charts, and google charts.• Developed 6 widget charts to be present on the dashboard using Angular 6 development environment.• Integrated the 6 widgets with the master code and deployed the web-app in AWS

    • Infosys

      May 2019 - May 2021

      • Working end-to-end with the Client's Security and Networking Team for capacity planning for EC, and EP as per the Client’s network architecture and building IPSec VPN tunnels for Encrypted communications. • Working with Security device SMEs to Integrate log sources and custom parser Development for unsupported log sources. • Evaluation of existing use cases and tuning them, creation of custom use cases and custom properties, reports, and dashboards on the QRadar SIEM platform. • QRadar deployment, management, upgrade, and health monitoring, ensuring platform's availability and log sources are reporting, troubleshooting, and providing RCA of any issue reported by the SOC Team.• Integrating IBM QRadar with Palo Alto XSOAR and onboarding clients into XSOAR.• Creation of classifier, mapper, incident types, incident layout, custom fields, and playbooks in Palo Alto XSOAR.• Working with the internal security and network team to facilitate the integration of other security and IT products into CyberWatch and patch management and asset inventory management.• Responsible for onboarding new team members on the project to ensure sufficient knowledge transfer and handholding.• Conducted several training sessions within the team for knowledge sharing and team building.• SOP creation for different activities. Show less

      • System Engineer

        Jul 2019 - May 2021

      • System Engineer Trainee

        May 2019 - Jul 2019

    • Zensar Technologies

      May 2021 - Mar 2023

      • QRadar deployment, management, upgrade, and health monitoring, ensuring platform's availability and log sources are reporting, troubleshooting, and providing RCA of any issue reported by the SOC Team. • Content development aligned with Mitre ATT&CK framework for advanced threat detection use cases in IBM QRadar and Azure sentinel. • Client Onboarding, threat detection use case development, and Log Source Integration with IBM QRadar. • IBM QRadar on-prem and Azure sentinel cloud-native SIEM demo setup deployment.• Custom Log Integration, Analytics rule creation, and Playbook creation in Microsoft Sentinel.• Cortex XSOAR and D3 Security SOAR Deployment, IBM QRadar integration with Incident and Event Mapping, Playbook automation. Show less

      • Senior Software Engineer

        Jul 2022 - Mar 2023

      • Software Engineer

        May 2021 - Jul 2022

    • CyberGate Defense

      Oct 2023 - now
      SOAR Engineer

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Manzar Alam
      Customer Centricity (Emerging) Zensar Technologies Aug 2022
    • Awarded to Manzar Alam
      Customer Centricity (Emerging) Zensar Technologies Feb 2022 For Optimization of the SOC services and streamlining the SOC operations and giving training to SOC team.
    • Awarded to Manzar Alam
      Infosys Insta Awards Infosys Jan 2021 For leading the leading the onboarding and stabilization activities for one of the biggest client w.r.t EPS into QRadar Platform.