Neel H. Pathak Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Malware/Anti-Spam Analyst AS MALWARE ANALYST:* Analyzing PE files ( Behavior and static analysis) and providing detection for malicious PE files.* Analyzing non-PE files (like ms office documents / PDF / JS / HTML / HTA / VBS|A / WSF ) and providing detection for malicious office document files.* Handling False Positive and False Negative cases.* Identify malware families and categorizing them accordingly.* Analyzing and accurately providing detection for Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP)* Helping support identity the root cause of problems faced by customers when they (support) have no clue of where/what to look at/for.* Handling escalations for some of the important customers.* Maintaining industry standard for accurate detection and signature release cycle for malicious files.* Maintaining signatures release cycle in periodic manner with step-wise release process.* Processing WILDCORE samples and adding static detection to them.* Trained new recruits on malware role.AS ANTI-SPAM ANALYST:* Adept at Anti-Spam techniques* Spam analysis: Domain, IP, RFC 2822 Email (Header + Body) analysis.* Maintaining industry standard for live protection of spam messages. * Fine tuning Spam-Filters to catch latest spam messages.* Thwarting Snowshoe spammers with combination of various blocking mechanisms.* Handling escalations from customers. * Trained new recruits on anti-spam role.

Ahmedabad Area, India.

What I did there ? * Ingress/Egress Network Traffic Filtering* RHEL Server Hardening* NIDS/HIDS rules development* Assisting senior team members with ISO/IEC 27001 audits* Nagios implementation for large number of hosts.* Fine-tuning reporting mechanism for Nagios* Built and maintained custom logs collecting and reporting system for RHEL server (uptime)* Incident handling* Web reputation services* Scanning and patching vulernable systems withing corporate secured periphery * Managing hot Swaps of RHEL storage devices* Conducting training for new recruits* Analyzing and suggesting open source as well as mixture of proprietary and open-source network security solutions.Technology Stack* Scripting LanguagesRuby, Python, Perl 5, PHP (5/6) and JS* Tools/UtilitiesMS Baseline Analyzer, VirtualBox/VMWare, OpenVAS, Nessus, Acunetix (for automated scanning), Putty, WinSCP, OpenSSL, Nagios, Untangle/ClearOS, iptables RHEL/CentOS, SNORT, Suricata, Tripwire, TrueCrypt, Wireshark, Anon VPN etc.* Programming LanguagesC, Java (core) and C#

* Migrating Old Rails Application to new Rails framework (3.2) at that time.(Changing code snippets, routes and other structure to make old rails application compatible with new rails framework)* Debugging old RoR application and develop necessary modules such that transition to new rails framework takes place efficiently.* Analyzing and debugging Ruby Code with Interactive Ruby (IRB).* RVM (Ruby Version Manager) to hop between rails 2.9 to 3.2 projects.

Master'S Degree, I.T. Systems & Network Security, Dist.

* Subjects Studied @ Master`s: Application Security, Data Centers, PKI & Biometrics, I.T. Audit, Network Security, Ethical Hacking.

Bachelor'S Degree, Information Technology Engineering, Dist.

Activities and Societies: Event Co-ordinator Techfest 2010

Gujarat Higher Secondary Board, Science