Summary
Overview
Skills
Work History
Education
Projects
Certification
Hi, I’m

Sandeep Reddy Pesaru

Slough,Berkshire

Summary

Highly skilled and dedicated cybersecurity professional with 2 years of experience in identifying and mitigating potential security risks. Strong knowledge of industry best practices and current threats, with a proven track record of implementing effective security measures. I am seeking to leverage my expertise to contribute to the success of a dynamic organization in the field of cybersecurity.

Overview

2
years of professional experience
2
years of post-secondary education
1
Certificate

Skills

  • NIST SP 800-53
  • NIST Cyber Security Framework
  • ISO/IEC 27001
  • Threat Modeling
  • Vulnerability analysis
  • Risk Assessment
  • Programming languages: C, Java

Work History

Hackersdaddy Cyber Security Solutions Ltd
London, united kingdom

Startup Managing Director
Nov 2021 - Current (3 years & 1 month)

Job overview

  • Responsible for developing and delivering comprehensive programs covering ethical hacking and cyber security.
  • Providing certification programs that validate the knowledge and skills of individuals in cybersecurity. This may include partnering with recognized certification bodies.
  • Conducting training sessions through various mediums, including in-person workshops, online courses, webinars, and other formats.
  • Responsibilities include delivering detailed reports on vulnerabilities, recommending mitigation strategies, and assisting in securing systems.
  • Collaboration with clients to enhance overall cybersecurity posture is a key focus.

Kissom Software Services
Bangalore

Cyber Security Analyst
11.2021 - 11.2022

Job overview

  • Prepared, executed, and reported on an audit of a subset of NIST SP 800-53 cybersecurity controls to include interviews, document reviews, and testing of systems to support compliance audit activities.
  • Knowledgeable on NIST Cybersecurity Framework and how to Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover categories comprise and facilitate an information security program
  • Developed concise, tailored cybersecurity awareness content, improving targeted end-user base cyber hygiene
  • Developed Just-In-Time cybersecurity awareness content for emerging threats to reduce operational risk to tailored audiences
  • Monitored new threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks and applied countermeasures to prevent intrusion.
  • Executed penetration tests and code reviews and used the results to secure systems.
  • Analyzed security breaches to determine their root causes.
  • Identifying critical, high, medium, and low vulnerabilities in applications based on OWASP top 10 and SANS 25 and prioritizing them based on their criticality
  • Follow up and ensure closure of raised vulnerabilities by re-validating and ensuring 100% closure.

Education

Royal Holloway, University of London
, Egham

Master of Science from Information Security
01.2021 - 02.2023

University Overview

Modules

  • Information Security Management
  • Security Technologies
  • Secure Business Architectures
  • Cyber Crime
  • Network Security


Projects

 Efficient Software Malware Detection Based on Machine Learning  and Deep Learning Algorithms 


  • To implement Machine learning based malware detection using decision tree and random forest algorithms.
  • To implement deep learning based malware detection using a convolutional neural network.
  • Construct models for ML and DL for malware detection with the assistance of the EMBER dataset.
  • Testing the models will be done by the features extracted from the dataset and identify the best model by comparing the accuracies, precision, recall and time complexity.
  • Input the sample file to the model to predict the file is benign or malware.

Certification


  • Certified Ethical Hacker, EC-Council, 2021
  • ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Associate Issued by SkillFront
  • Proof of completion IdentityIQ Introduction E-Learning
  • Completed Introduction to CyberArk Privileged Access Management
Sandeep Reddy Pesaru