Santhosh Murugan

IBM Guardium and Oracle AVDF Senior security engineer has 4 years and 4 months of hands on experience in Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) in expertise level.

Senior Support Engineer at Hitachi systems India pvt ltd (2024-06 – Present)

I am currently working as Senior support engineer for Oracle AVDF from last 3 months. I am currently working with RBL Bank customer.

• Handling agent communication issues
• Integration of Audit vault and host monitor agents
• Create target, monitoring point and audit trial
• Whitelisting of trusted connections
• Regular health checkup and logs validation with SIEM
• Policy creation and updation as per customer requirement
• Report creation and work with OEM for bugs
• Administration of 250+ databases with oracle, mssql and mysql
• Take regular backup and archival check

Junior to Senior Support Engineer at Secbounty services pvt ltd (2020-01 – 2024-02)

I was working Secbounty for 4 years 1 month and became junior to senior support engineer. I have worked with customer like Yesbank, Suryodaybank.

• Administered IBM Guardium DAM infrastructure with 180+ database servers
• Installed and configured GIM, S-TAP/K-TAP on Oracle, MSSQL, and MySQL servers
• Implemented redaction on PII fields across critical applications
• Created custom Guardium policies and alerts for compliance and security needs
• Performed VA scans, data classification, and prepared audit reports for InfoSec team
• Automated archive transfers to an external backup server using SCP with 15-day retention
• Handled STAP issues (Connectivity, no traffic, sniffer failure, K-TAP mismatch)
• Integrated Guardium logs with SIEM for centralized monitoring
• Hands on experience with blocking, redaction and Quarantine
• Upgradation and redundancy

B.Tech in Information Technology – Park college of engineering and technology (2021)