Sekhar Chintaginjala Email & Phone Number

San Mateo, California, United States

Bengaluru Area, India

CloudVector is enabling organizations to move beyond the gateway and firewall with the industry's first full-featured API Threat Protection platform. Only CloudVector is able to automatically and continuously discover APIs, monitor for deviant behavior, and secure data from exfiltration to prevent data breaches.

Bengaluru Area, India

Netskope is the cloud app analytics and policy company that brings IT and the cloud together. Only the Netskope platform provides complete visibility into cloud apps and enforces sophisticated policies to make them safe, compliant, and high performance. With Netskope, people get their favorite cloud apps and the business can move fast, with confidence.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Lead a team responsible for the delivery of security content, new feature development, customer care, etc. for the McAfee NSP product.• Patch Tuesdays (Microsoft) analysis and threat prevention with IPS signatures.• Vulnerability Analysis and signature development for latest network threats and exploits• Analyze exploit test tools such as Metasploit, BreakingPoint, CoreImpact and provide signature coverage• Maintain Protocol Spec for protocols such as HTTP, IMAP, POP, DCERPC, TNS, SIP, P2P• Provide guidance and mentorship to new IPS team members by having discussions, reviews, and suggestions to day-to-day tasks of writing and updating protocol parsing specifications and attack signatures with a goal to create and develop a productive & efficient content team.

Bengaluru, India

• Lead the research team to plan, deploy and review of vulnerability research and development activities• Develop strategies for best way of sharing the Information Security & Business continuity practices• Preparation of corrective and preventive action plan for the findings from internal audit• Found many simple to complex vulnerabilities in highly critical embedded devices. A detailed vulnerability analysis report will be given for each vulnerability so that the developers to aid them in fixing the issue• Automated the whole test procedure thus improving the productivity by at least 40%. This also saved an analyst’s time to spend further time on research activities• Based on the vulnerabilities found on many ABB embedded devices, a fault database was created which is useful for development teams in finding out the vulnerabilities associated with specific OS and other applications• A smoke test was prepared with reduced number of attack vectors to fuzz the embedded device. This test is very effective as many vulnerabilities were found in a limited period

Hyderabad, India

• As an Intrusion analyst, to analyze the publicly and privately disclosed vulnerabilities and develop highly efficient signatures for IntruPro IPS especially for Windows based DCERPC Services and Libraries• Given signature coverage for SANS Top 20 vulnerabilities for the year 2005 & 2006 in minimal period of time• Developed few plugins for Nessus (NASL) and Nikto (Perl) scanners which are used to test signatures• Did Vulnerability testing with exploits and custom security tools/scripts• Analyzed various types of malware/viruses to determine threat and take risk mitigation steps• Assist in raising security-related issues and provide technical information for remediation

New Delhi, India

• Perform all phases of security incident response as a technical member of CERT• Done comprehensive study on buffer overflow attacks and their countermeasures. This study helped me and our staff in analyzing newly discovered vulnerabilities, in turn reducing the span of publishing a new vulnerability on our website• Researched and delivered “RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Minimization and Hardening Guidelines”, this is available on CERT-In website. Based on this document, a Shell Script is also written which automates the process of minimization and hardening at the time of installation• Done VA and PT for internal systems • Provide OS hardening recommendations and enforce recommendations• Designed and wrote, from scratch, a client/server system with a traditional front end in Perl. This system was very successful for the company to monitor systems that are acting as Open Proxies in India• Successfully handled several incidents which include malware analysis, phishing activities, website hacks and network scans• Maintained the NOC and main Server Room setup which consists of more than 50 systems and includes Workstations, Firewalls, IDS, Web and Mail Servers

M.Tech, Information Technology

B.Tech, Computer Science