Karthik Nuthalapati

A big financial client based out of Europe region which has technology landscape hosted in 4 datacenters in Europe and Asia pacific region.

• Developed and implemented endpoint security policies and procedures to protect organizational data.
• Monitored security alerts and incidents, performing forensic analysis to identify threats and vulnerabilities.
• Collaborated with IT teams to deploy and maintain endpoint protection solutions, ensuring compliance with security standards.
• Centralized Administration/management/deployment of Endpoint technologies over the estate.
• Manage and create reports for all ePO managed products.
• Overseeing the health, performance, stabilization, tuning and ongoing planning of the Endpoint infrastructure (HW & SW) for servers & network devices
• Design, Testing, Implement, Configure, Maintain, Fine Tune & Troubleshoot Data Leak Prevention (DLP) Solution across various endpoints.
• Develop workflows, process and automation procedures.
• Identify and resolve any false positive findings in assessment results.
• Represent the team in change, incident and problem management calls and manage request queues
• Partner with teammates and other IT groups to research, assess, and recommend improvements of control environments through data analytics
• Security Management tools (i.e. Crowdstrike, McAfee, Carbon Black, Sophos, Cisco Amp.
• Familiar with general networking and database concepts
• Perform analysis of events/incidents and provide remediation suggestions to relevant owners.
• Implement tasks/projects critical to the organizations Endpoint technologies (workstations, laptops, servers, VDI)
• Create and deliver reports to business lines pertaining to endpoint security, compliance.
• Compliance regulations and GRC Standards(PCI-DSS, GDPR)
• Generating reports based on cases triggered on Weekly, Monthly basis and providing it to the clients.
• Using various security tools to perform monitoring and analysis of security events to detect security risks and threats within established customer Service Level Agreements.
• Recognize successful attempts of cyber intrusions and compromises through log review and analysis of relevant event detail information.
• Escalating the security incidents based on the client's SLA for real-time alerting, response, and providing information by doing in-depth analysis of event payload, security logs, and providing recommendations, which, in turn, makes the customer's business safe and secure.
• Differentiate the false positives from true intrusion attempts and help remediate/prevent.

• Conducted vulnerability assessments and penetration testing on endpoints and network infrastructure.
• Provided training and guidance to employees on security best practices to reduce risks.
• Assisted in incident response activities, including identifying and remediating malware infections.
• McAfee EPO 5.1.2, 5.3.1
• McAfee Drive Encryption 7.1, 7.2
• McAfee File and Removable Media Protection (FRP) 4.3.1, 5.0.2
• McAfee Native Encryption (MNE) 3.0.
• McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5,4.6.8 and 5.3.1(ePO)
• McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise versions 8.5,8.7,8.8,8.8Patch 9
• McAfee HDLP 9.2, 9.3.
• McAfee Site Advisor 3.1.
• Manage and create reports for all ePO managed products.
• Troubleshooting and management of ePO agent and ePO server.
• Troubleshooting and management of EFS, Bitlocker, Checkpoint
• Performing the day to day activities in managing antivirus system.
• Install, implement, manage, maintain ePO and create appropriate policies.
• Experience in troubleshooting the McAfee related issues.
• Management and configuration of McAfee ePO.
• Remote support for 1500 plus computers in corporate domain.
• Troubleshoot repository replication issues.
• Experience in Reporting task. Generate reports from ePO server.
• Experience in SQL, Active Directory, Patch Management is desirable.

Developed and implemented endpoint security policies and procedures to protect organizational data.

- Monitored security alerts and incidents, performing forensic analysis to identify threats and vulnerabilities.

- Collaborated with IT teams to deploy and maintain endpoint protection solutions, ensuring compliance with security standards.

• McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 and 4.6.8(ePO)
  
  McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise versions 8.5,8.7,8.8.
  
  McAfee HDLP 9.2, 9.3.
  
  McAfee Endpoint Encryption Manager 5.2.5, EEPC 7.1
  
  McAfee Site Advisor 3.1.
  
  Manage and create reports for all ePO managed products.
  
  Troubleshooting and management of ePO agent and ePO server.
  
  Performing the day to day activities in managing antivirus system.
  
  Install, implement, manage, maintain ePO, create appropriate policies.
  
  Experience in troubleshooting the McAfee related issues.
  
  Management and configuration of McAfee ePO.
  
  Remote support for 1500 plus computers in corporate domain.
  
  Troubleshoot repository replication issues.
  
  Experience in Reporting task. Generate reports from ePO server.
  
  Experience in SQL, Active Directory, Patch Management is desirable.
  
  Experience in Encryption and Decryption of Desktop and laptop.

• Installation & Troubleshooting of antivirus Mcafee.
  
  Managing End Point Security on the below mentioned Operating Systems
  
  Windows(2000/XP/VISTA/7)
  
  Linux(Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOs)
  
  Installation and Troubleshooting of Drivers
  
  Managing Applications such as:
  
  Antivirus (McAfee)
  
  Office Suites(Microsoft Office/Open Office)
  
  Graphics Applications(Adobe Reader/Photoshop)
  
  Compression Utilities(Winzip,7zip,IZarc)
  
  Creating Desktop/Laptop images using software such Norton Ghost or any other
  
  Host imaging software.
  
  Troubleshooting of Hardware related issues and performing system upgrades.
  
  Installation & Configuration of Email Clients such as 8.1 Microsoft Outlook.