Sagar Kaushik

Cybersecurity professional with 1+ years of SOC experience in alert triage, incident response, threat hunting and detection engineering. Hands-on with Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel and CrowdStrike Falcon; experienced in forensic evidence collection and MITRE ATTACK mapping. Familiar with NIST incident response processes and cloud security monitoring (Azure, AWS), collaborating with IT teams to remediate risks.

Security Incident Responder at Intel Corporation (2025-07 – Present)

Internship role focused on security incident response, threat hunting, and detection engineering

• Monitored Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel for security events across endpoint, network and identity telemetry; performed alert triage, validation and prioritized escalations to senior analysts.
• Investigated alerts using Splunk queries and log analysis; performed root-cause analysis and prepared incident findings to support remediation tasks.
• Executed NIST-aligned incident response activities including scoping, containment coordination, evidence collection and handover for forensic review.
• Conducted proactive threat hunting mapped to MITRE ATTACK to identify suspicious behaviors and surface high-risk indicators for investigation.
• Authored and tuned detection queries and correlation logic in Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel to improve signal-to-noise ratio and reduce false positives.
• Collaborated with IT and engineering stakeholders to verify security issues, recommend mitigations and support remediation of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.

M.Tech in Computer Science (Information Security) – Vellore Institute of Technology (2024-07 – 2026-04)

B.Tech in Computer Science – Maharishi Dayanand University (2020-06 – 2024-08)