Niva Mohapatra

Lead end-to-end investigation and containment of high-severity security incidents across endpoint, identity, email, cloud, and network environments. Monitor and triage 1,000+ alerts/month maintaining 98% SLA adherence. Develop and maintain 50+ KQL detection and hunting queries, improving detection fidelity and coverage by 35%.

Senior Analyst – Incident Response & Threat Hunting - Dell Technologies

(2022-05)

• Lead end-to-end investigation and containment of high-severity security incidents across endpoint, identity, email, cloud, and network environments.
• Monitor and triage 1,000+ alerts/month maintaining 98% SLA adherence.
• Develop and maintain 50+ KQL detection and hunting queries, improving detection fidelity and coverage by 35%.
• Knowledge of email authentication protocols like SPF, DKIM, DMARC.
• Designed and built an Email Threat Response Splunk Dashboard tracking phishing, malware, and credential harvesting campaigns.
• Perform deep forensic analysis (endpoint, memory, logs, network traffic) and map adversary behavior to MITRE ATT&CK.
• Performed endpoint forensic investigations using KAPE to analyze MFT, SRUM, Windows registry, file system, and browser artifacts, enabling detection of malware execution and user activity timelines.
• Drive root cause analysis and long-term containment strategies, achieving zero data loss in 97% of confirmed incidents.
• Collaborate with threat intelligence and engineering teams to enhance detections and automate response workflows, reducing manual triage by 30–40%.
• Create and maintain incident playbooks and operational runbooks, improving investigation consistency and mentoring junior analysts.

Analyst – Cybersecurity Engineering & Operations - Dell Technologies

(2020-07 - 2022-04)

• Worked in endpoint security engineering for environments exceeding 10,000 endpoints.
• Investigated and resolved 800+ security incidents, focusing on troubleshooting, root-cause remediation and prevention of recurrence.
• Built operational dashboards using Splunk, Power BI, and ServiceNow, reducing ticket backlog by 35%.
• Administered enterprise security platforms and contributed to security tooling evaluations and onboarding.

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology - IIIT Bhubaneswar (2016 - 2020)

Master of Business Administration - Business Management - Liverpool Business School (2023 - 2025)