1. ASHWIN VIJAY
Mobile: +91 – 9538542600
E-Mail ID: ashwinvijay@gmail.com
Professional Synopsis
• 8 years of experience in Information and Network Security ,System & Network
Administration.
• Proficient in network installation, configuration of networking devices and various
peripherals, assessment of network security and implementation of security devices.
• Experience in analysing information system needs, evaluating end-user requirements, custom
designing solutions, troubleshooting for complex information systems management.
Academic Highlights
2011 M.S Cyber Security (Lancaster University, UK -2011)
2006 B.Tech. (Information Technology) from Anna University ,India
Certifications
Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE Security: 48253).
Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA).
Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP).
Cisco Certified Information Specialist.
QulaysGuard Certified Specialist.
Certified Ethical Hacker (V6).
Technology Expertise:
Event Management Tool : Arcsight
IPS Devices : Sourcefire and Dragon
Firewalls : Juniper, Checkpoint (R65, R71), Sonicwall, Palo Alto and
Cisco ASA
Anti-Virus : Trend-Micro, Mcafee EPO, FEP, Bluecoat
Content Filtering : Bluecoat Proxy (210, 510, 810, 8100)
Packet Capture Tool : Wireshark
Vulnerability Assessment Tool : Qualysguard
Spam Management : Barracuda
SSL Device : Juniper
Career Highlights
April 2014– Present Hibu India Pvt Limited as Senior Engineer Network
Operations
2. - Configuring and managing parent company infrastructure which includes
Firewalls, proxies, Routers and switches
Firewall Administration(Palo Alto (500, 2020, 4060 and ASA 5510,5555)
• Remote access management of Firewall & Vendor Management.
• Day to day changes to the production environments based on customer requirements
such as firewall rule change, DMZ related configuration, connectivity testing of
servers, etc.
• Identify the ports used by application and process firewall port open request for
Projects with coordination from Client IT group
• Incident Management and Escalations.
• Information security analysis of customer requirements to ensure all standards,
policies and guidelines are upheld.
• Hardware and software upgrades, hot fixes and replacements.
• Troubleshoot the firewall and VPN access issues for projects.
April 2013 – April 2014 KTwo Technologies, Bangalore as Network Security
Engineer
Client UCB
Designation NPS L2 Engineer
Team Size 3 Member
Organization KTwo Technologies
Environment
Juniper SSL VPN, Bluecoat Proxy, Bluecoat AV, Bluecoat Director, Reporter,
Palo Alto Firewall, Cisco ASA (8.2, 9.0)
Bluecoat Proxy
• OS update,
• Troubleshooting issues.
• Rule creation, maintenance of Rules (Policy Management)
• Management and Health check of Bluecoat proxy
• Monitoring and reporting of internet uses, using Bluecoat reporter.
• Configuring rules on Forward and Reverse proxies
• Regular configuration backup and timely Up-gradation of firmware and
BCAAA services.
Jul’08 – April 2013 Wipro Technologies Bangalore as Associate Consultant
Project 1:
Client Hospira Corporation
Designation Sr. Security Engineer
Team Size 5 Member
3. Organization Wipro Technologies
Environment
Juniper SSL VPN, Checkpoint Edge firewalls, Bluecoat Proxy, Cisco ASA,
McAfee, Microsoft FEP, Barracuda Spam
- Administration, Maintenance, Configuration and Troubleshooting of Checkpoint Firewall,
Cisco ASA, Bluecoat, Barracuda and Juniper SSL.
- Assisting Migration/Integration of multi-vendor technology products in to the production
environment.
- Maintaining McAfee Epo, policies, configuring agent handlers at various locations and also
migrate existing policies to different antivirus vendor.
Juniper SSL VPN
• Configuring of resource policies & profiles.
• Configuring Sign In pages and Policy
• Configuring user rules & user realms.
• User Administration.
• New Juniper SSL VPN box configuration & implementation.
• Configuring authentication server.
• Troubleshooting issues.
• Cluster configuration.
• Co-ordinating with vendor for support.
McAfee (Exp – 2years)
• Management and Health check of McAfee EPO 4.5
• Troubleshooting issues.
• Installing Agent Handlers for dmz/new locations
• Configuring policies/tasks/reporting
Project 2:
Client British Petroleum
Designation Security Analyst
Team Size 10 Member
Organization Wipro Technologies
Environment
Checkpoint Edge firewalls, Bluecoat Proxy, McAfee, Arcsight, Sourcefire and
Qualysguard.
• Worked as a Security Analyst for British Petroleum and handling incidents that have a direct
or indirect adverse impact on the confidentiality, integrity and availability of BP’s corporate
information systems and data resources.
• Conducted On-Demand Scan & Scheduled Scan on the Network using Qualysguard.
• Following leading threat advisories (Cisco’s Intellishield, CERT, Symantec DeepSight, ISC
SANS,ISS X-Force, Bugtraq) for threat analysis and vulnerability management.
• Recommending Security patching for technologies like Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, SUN and
HP.
- Security event monitoring, correlation and case handling using Arcsight.
• Configuring policies/tasks/reporting
Dec’07 – Jul’08 E4E Business Solutions Private Limited, Bangalore as Technical Support
Engineer
4. • Installing, troubleshooting and providing design solutions on Sonicwall (Hardware Firewall).
• Providing interoperability with third party Firewalls and Routers.
• Handled implementation of
o Firewalls (Sonicwall) and VPN Devices in networks.
o VPN (IPSEC & SSL VPN).
• Configuring access rules.
Aug’06 - Jul’07 Slash Support Private Limited, Chennai as Technical Support Engineer
• Designing, configuring, implementing and maintaining various real time networking
scenarios.
• Successfully implemented Wired and Wireless LAN at both Switch and Router Levels, Real
Time Design and maintenance of Virtual Private Network (VPN) across different
geographical locations.
• Efficiently configured various networking devices like Wireless Repeaters, Wireless Gaming
Adapters, Wired/ Wireless Print Servers, Layers 2 Switches, etc.
Personal Information
• Date of Birth : 29th
- April- 1984 (Muscat, Sultanate of Oman)
• Languages Known : English, Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil
• Passport Number : G5575027 (Expiry Date: 24-10-2017)