Akshaya Vasudevan

Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) with a master's degree in cyber security from London Metropolitan University, UK. Over 3.7 years of experience conducting VAPT assessments and ISO27001.

GRM Technologies Pvt Ltd, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Cyber Security Consultant

May 2021- November 2022

Responsibilities:

• Performed manual and automated penetration testing for Senior Quality Assurance Establishment and Quality Assurance Establishment departments of Central Government IT infrastructure assets to identify system vulnerabilities and develop remediation plan.
• Conducted Manual and Automated assessment for more than twenty web mobile application pen testing by identifying potential risk areas for public sector banks, Union territories and private sector banks and validation of high-risk vulnerabilities on specific targets with remedial solutions.
• Presented information topics which was well acknowledged.

1. Mobile Malware Threats- malware threats on the mobile devices along with the proof of concept
2. DDOS- regarding the DDOS attacks, types and mitigation along with the proof of concept
3. Social Engineering- Various Concept in Social engineering and demonstrated proof of concepts
4. Presented on Amazon web Services Security Identity &Compliance services

• Proficient in different security frameworks and standards (such as OWASP concepts and testing methodologies)
• Concentrate on areas of business usage, such as training & awareness, asset management, and business continuity management. Also, register, investigate, and report on information security occurrences.
• Conducting ISO audits for a private networking firm which will be in contract for one year 

• Elevated to Cyber Security Consultant from Associate Consultant with in a span three months
• Affluent with ISO 27001, ensuring IT security compliance with organization’s security policies and involved in internal, supplier and third-party audits
• Participated in BCMS (Business Continuity Management System) training and awareness 

Online Media Protection Analyst

November 2018 - July 2020

Responsibilities:

• Prevented pirated versions of films and TV programs on the internet
• Utilized online piracy platforms like torrents, cyber-lockers, Pivot, online streaming, social media sites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter
• Addressed international theatre releases for piracy as soon as they are released
• Worked in digital piracy, online piracy content, digital asset, and content protection
• Clients included Netflix, Amazon, Lion’s gate and National Geographic
• Collaborated with intelligence teams and the client’s team to evaluate the most business impact scenarios

IT Volunteer

October 2019-Dec 2019

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Coram to help them receive “Cyber essentials readiness and corrective actions” certification
• Remediated computers, laptops and server infrastructures
• Conducted vulnerability scanning using Nessus tool to identify risks
• Mitigated vulnerability risks by providing suggestions to fix the issues

Great Learning, India The University of Texas & Great Lakes 

Postgraduate in AI and ML

September 2021

Key Project:

• Build a classifier that can classify the tickets by analysing text and Design a ML/DL based chatbot utility which can help the professionals to highlight the safety risk as per the incident description

Masters in Networking and Cyber–Security

July 2020

Aggregate:72.3%

Key Project:

• Researched Machine learning algorithm employed in the detection of SMS spam messages
• Implemented the machine learning algorithms with SMS datasets using the WEKA software to determine the suitable algorithm
• Analysed current laws that have been implemented in handling illegal use of short service messages.
• Recommended future work to improve the current method for detecting the SMS spam by suggesting surveys among the consumers and service providers

Bachelors of Computer Science Engineering

June 2017

Aggregate:79.2%

Key Project:

• Provided secure architecture for handling file access in dynamic cloud
• groups
• Key pair authentication using RC4 encryption for users in specific groups