Providing coordination and leadership for the most significant and most complex security challenges Microsoft is involved with today. Analyze potential security issues and develop investigation and resolution plans.My daily tasks include :- Executing security controls, defences, and countermeasures to intercept and prevent internal or external attacks or attempts to infiltrate company email, data, e-commerce, and web-based systems.- Researching attempted or successful efforts to compromise systems security and determining the next steps, including potential escalations. - Developing and implementing automation of security process and procedure where possible, and translating security policy into effective controls.- Respond to security incidents, conduct threat intelligence and analysis, and use data analytics to drive security decisions. - Conducting and supporting red/purple team operations to improve security posture. - Maintaining hardware, software, and network firewalls and encryption protocols. - Administering security policies to control access to systems.

Directly responsible for Solution Engineering & Site Reliability Engineering for identity and isolation in various Corp Prod domains, including Windows Devices Group and Xbox infrastructure with zero downtime tolerance. Ensuring Microsoft’s Highly Valued Assets (HVA) are meeting the utmost security needs.

Technical Lead for Directory Services India team.

Enabling, giving concrete advise and empowering our premier customer's on Microsoft Active Directory Services and Certificate Services.Topics I usually handled day - in - day out (but not limited to) include : Certificate Services: =============Smart Card Logon SSL/TLSActive Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) (Only Windows CA)Certificate enrollmentCertificate revocation checkingCertificate Root Update ProgramCertificate web enrollment pages (CWE)Certificate-based authenticationCertificates and Public Key InfrastructureCertificate services database issues (Only Windows CA)Certificate services migration issues (Only Windows CA)Credential roamingDeployment of custom elliptic curve parametersEncrypting File System (EFS)Network Device Enrollment Services (NDES) Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP)SChannel SSPWindows Security Technologies:=====================Account lockoutsCredential GuardDomain and forest trustsDynamic Access ControlHardware-backed authentication (Next Generation Credentials)Kerberos authenticationNTLM CredSSPPermissions, access control and auditingNetlogon Secure channel issuesWindows Hello and modern credential providers (face and iris detection)Credential Providers Managed Service Account/ Group Managed Service account Active Directory:===========Active Directory backup, restore, or disaster recovery Active Directory database issues and domain controller boot failuresActive Directory replicationActive Directory topology (sites, subnets, and connection objects)DC DiscoveryDCPromo and the installation of domain controllersLDAP protocol configuration and interoperabilityDomain join issues User, computer, group, and object managementWindows Time Service

Joined Microsoft as a College Hire for Internship.Intern in Azure Site Recovery and Backup team.Intern in Active Directory Federation Services, O365 Identity services.