# Naga Bandaru

Naga Bandaru is a remote worker on Himalayas, SOC Analyst (L1 → L2) at Tata Consultancy Services, based in India.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@nagabandaru

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SOC Analyst L2 at Tata Consultancy Services who authored 15+ MITRE ATT&CK-aligned detection rules and reduced false positives by ~30%.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | India |
| Authorized to work in | India |
| Salary expectations | 140k+ INR |
| Job categories | SOC Analyst, Threat Hunter, Incident Response Analyst, Detection Engineer |
| Skills | Security Operations Center (SOC), Alert Triage, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Threat Hunting, SIEM, MITRE ATT&CK, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM QRadar, SPL, KQL, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, SentinelOne, Defender XDR |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/naga-bandaru |

## What I'm looking for

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I'm actively targeting SOC Analyst L2, Threat Hunter, Incident Response Analyst, and Detection Engineer roles.
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## About

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At Tata Consultancy Services, I triage security alerts and investigate incidents across Splunk, QRadar, and Microsoft Sentinel. I authored 15+ custom detection rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK tactics and reduced false-positive alert volume by ~30% through query tuning.

I also built a Splunk SIEM Detection Engineering & SOC Dashboard project with multi-source log onboarding, correlation rules, and real-time dashboards for shift handover. I enrich indicators with VirusTotal, AbuseIPDB, and MISP, and analyze network traffic with Wireshark and Zeek.
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## Experience

### SOC Analyst (L1 → L2) (current)

[Tata Consultancy Services](https://himalayas.app/companies/tata-consultancy-services). Mar 2022 - Present

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Client-facing SOC role supporting enterprise security operations; promoted to hybrid L2 responsibilities managing end-to-end incident lifecycle within a 10–12 analyst team. Triaged 40–60 security alerts per shift, maintained 95% SLA compliance, and reduced false positives by ~30% through SIEM tuning.
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Skills: Splunk, Microsoft-Sentinel, IBM-QRadar, CrowdStrike-Falcon-Cloud-Security, SentinelOne, Defender-XDR, MISP, Virus-Total, AbuseIPDB, AnyRun, Wireshark, Zeek, Snort, Nessus, Python, PowerShell, KQL, SPL, SOAR, BASH, Azure-AD, AWS-CloudTrail, Identity-And-Authentication-Monitoring, MITRE-ATT&CK, Cyber-Kill-Chain, NIST-CSF, ISO-27001, Diamond-Model, ServiceNow, Jira, Detection-Engineering, Threat-Hunting, Incident-Response, Log-Analysis, IOC-Enrichment

## Education

### Red Team Leaders

CCEP, Certified Cyber Exploitation Professional, Cyber Exploitation. 2025 - 2025

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Earned the Certified Cyber Exploitation Professional (CCEP) certification in November 2025.
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### The SecOps Group

CNSP, Certified Network Security Practitioner, Network Security. 2025 - 2025. Grade: Merit

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Earned the Certified Network Security Practitioner (CNSP) certification with merit in November 2025.
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### Andhra Loyola College, Krishna University

Master of Computer Applications, Computer Applications

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Pursued a Master of Computer Applications with coursework in Network Security, Operating Systems, and Cryptography.
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### TryHackMe

SOC Level 1 Learning Path, Security Operations

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Completed the SOC Level 1 Learning Path.
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## Tech stack

- Splunk
- Jira
- Python
- PowerShell
- AWS CloudTrail
- Snort
- Wireshark
- ServiceNow
- Bash
- SentinelOne
- VirusTotal
- Microsoft Sentinel

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