Chandra Shekhar

Chandra Shekhar

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  • About me

    Principal Analyst at Optiv Security | Threat Hunter

  • Education

    • National Institute of Technology Delhi

      2013 - 2017
      Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Engineering
  • Experience

    • National Institute of Technology Delhi

      May 2016 - Jul 2016
      Research Intern
    • Tata Consultancy Services

      Jul 2017 - Jan 2020
      • System Engineer(Cyber Security Practice)

        Jul 2017 - Jan 2020
      • Cyber Security Analyst

        Jul 2017 - Jan 2020
    • Genpact

      Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
      Information Security Consultant

      CSIRT(Cyber Security Incident Response) Analyst Jan 2020 - Dec 2021Genpact Ltd , Gurgaon , Haryana❖ I worked as CSIRT (Cyber Security Incident Response Team) Analyst for our client which is one of the BIG3 Consulting Firm . I was also part of CSIRT Engineering which used to develop solutions for our security team atBCG .❖ Worked on various security solutions such as Crowdstrike , FireEye , Splunk , Mimecast etc. to perform root cause analysis and investigations for security incidents reported to us by our MSSP or directly reported to CSIRT by users.❖ Used Mitre-Attack and Cyber Kill Chain Framework to develop Hypothesis for Threat Intel , Entity based and Data based Threat Hunting and developed use cases to enhance detection capabilities and enhanceincident response.❖ Wrote python script using Virustotal API to fetch threat intel for submitted IOCs (Domain , URLs and IPs) through excel file which contained list of IOCs and output a new excel sheet with their respective threat inteldata fetched from Virustotal❖ Collaborated for phishing automation using python script and wrote python script to parse SMTP server details from email header using regular expression .❖ Developed script to submit file automatically to hybrid analysis for sandboxing which was also one of the modules of the Phishing automation project.❖ Perform Email Header Analysis to all the reported phishing emails in Splunk using open source tool mxtoolbox and our phishing email analyser developed in house .❖ Developed SOPs for CSIRT Processes and Investigation for standard use cases reported to CSIRT to enhance incident response capability within the team . Show less

    • Optiv

      Jan 2022 - now
      • Principal Analyst

        Jul 2024 - now
      • Senior Analyst - II

        Jan 2022 - Jul 2024
  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Chandra Shekhar
      Gold Medal National Institute of Technology Delhi Feb 2017 Gold Medal in ZEAL Cricket Tournament at NIT Delhi
    • Awarded to Chandra Shekhar
      Gold Medal National Institute of Technology Delhi Feb 2017 Gold Medal in ZEAL tournament at NIT Delhi