Sumit Basak Email & Phone Number

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

• Leading network security assurance activities, addressing compliance in PCI, HIPAA, ISO, SOC, and client audits, while maintaining standards for SOX, NIST, and CIS Benchmark
• Performing internal audits for endpoints and network devices to ensure 100% compliance with organizational security standards.
• Managing Forcepoint DLP for PCI clients to prevent data leakage and mitigate risks. Reviewing incidents and providing artifacts to clients.
• Reviewing and performing architecture changes and risk mitigation. Maintaining and tracking open risks until closure.
• Involved in critical process improvement projects to enhance security and achieve cost savings by utilizing existing resources and automation. Achieved an annual savings of $60K and 400 man-hours in 2024.

Kolkata Area, India

• Reviewing Network architecture and design in order to provide an efficient and reliable security posture for the organization; introducing new initiatives to maintain the security posture through organizational threat.
• Experienced in Cisco ASA, PaloAlto NextGen firewall, Zscaler Proxy, Anyconnect and Global Protect VPN.
• Experienced in Cloud Security for AWS and Azure from design to implementation. Worked on CSPM tool Wiz to identify the gaps.
• Knowledge in Vulnerability Assessment tool Tenable and Kenna to maintain minimum risk for the Infrastructure Security.
• Experienced in Identity and Access Management. Worked on RSA and Okta projects to achieve SSO, MFA, PAM implementations.
• Performing gap analysis for Information Security Management System; drafting and implementing specific policies, procedures, protocols & improved practices using security metrics to mitigate the vulnerability by.

Kolkata

• Contributed as a Network and Security Engineer, provided L3 technical support in data network domain to organization’s internal network
• Worked on Installation, up-gradation, and configuration of:o Cisco Firewalls including port-based ACLs, Object group policies, NAT, Routing, Vlan, Multicasting, Failover, IOS up-gradation and site-to-site VPNo Router /.
• Drove the validation and impact analysis of Routing, Switching and Network Security related changes for implementation
• Managed network device hardening and vulnerability scanning and closing the gaps before connecting the device to live network as per IBM security policy including port-based ACLS, restricted access, port security, DHCP.
• Acted as SPOC for internal/external audits from Network domain and led the closer of Information Security gap for all network devices

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Liable for various change management activities along with configuration & maintenance of routers, switches, NAC, IP Phones, and troubleshooting of data/voice links with different ISPs.

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

• Accountable for providing support to VSNL broadband, and lease line from DSLAM to customer premises.
• Coordinated with NOC team and local cable operators for the resolution of network issues.

• Assisted in the configuration of 24Online Server and related activitiesviz. user creation, bandwidth allocation,access-control,database updation& migration
• Experienced on configuration and maintenance of switches, Media converter, fiber optics etc.

Diploma In Computer Hardware And Networking, Hardware And Networking

B.Com(Hons), Commerece

Higher Secondary, Commerece

10Th, General