Pranav Mathur
SOC Analyst | Security Monitoring | Incident Response | SIEM & Detection Tuning Expert
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Cybersecurity professional with 2 years of experience in cyber security monitoring and incident investigation, expert in Microsoft Sentinel and Splunk. Key achievements include a 15% reduction in false positives through detection tuning using Windows and DNS logs, and the development of a system for transaction data analysis to protect sensitive financial information. A Cyber Security Analyst position is sought, where skills in security monitoring and incident investigation will be applied to support the mission of protecting the company's network and sensitive financial data.
Experience
Associate Analyst - AML Rightsource
(2024)
- Used Splunk to correlate Windows and DNS logs, reducing false positives by 15% through detection tuning.
- Validated and responded alerts, escalated incidents via ServiceNow, and tuned detection to reduce false positives.
- Used Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to investigate suspicious processes and performed threat validation using VirusTotal.
Intern - HighRadius
(2023-05 - 2023-07)
- Developed a system for transaction data analysis, applying security principles to protect sensitive financial information during processing and storage.
- Built ML forecasting model using Random Forest that achieved 75% accuracy against test dataset, outperforming baseline moving average by 15%.
Education
M.Sc. - Cyber Security and AI - IIT Patna (2026 - 2028)
B. Tech - Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) - Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) (2020 - 2024)
