Prasad - Cybersecurity Professional

01 / Profile

Microsoft Certified Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100) and Azure Security Engineer (AZ-500) with 2 years of enterprise security experience.

Operating across vulnerability assessment, continuous threat research, and architectural validation to secure domain attack surfaces and track systemic risk.

Offensive

VAPT, Web Application Security, and continuous penetration testing to validate systemic risk.

Defensive

SOC Operations, Cortex XDR administration, and custom detection engineering.

Infrastructure

Multi-cloud defense (Azure/OCI) and Attack Surface Management (EASM).

Investigation

Incident response workflows and digital forensics evidence extraction.

02 / Experience

Apex Group

Cybersecurity Analyst

2024 — Present
Mumbai, India

Detection Engineering Administer Palo Alto Cortex XDR enterprise-wide; author custom BIOC/correlation rules to suppress false positives and accelerate triage.

Vulnerability Assessment Perform continuous VAPT using Nessus Expert and Burp Suite Pro; track and prioritize vulnerabilities through enterprise Risk Register.

Threat Emulation Executed red-team/adversary-emulation exercises modeling Medusa ransomware TTPs to validate detection coverage and close visibility gaps.

Perimeter Defense Manage Barracuda Email Gateway policies and execute simulated phishing campaigns via PhishLine alongside security awareness training.

NTRDC CFB

Security Intern

Sep 2021 — Feb 2022

Supported the national research initiative "Enhancing the strategies for resolving crimes in the police" under the National Technical Research & Development Committee. Evaluated digital evidence handling standards and forensic escalation workflows to accelerate law enforcement cybercrime investigations.

03 / Education & Research

2020 — 2024

B.E. / B.Tech Cyber Security

HONOURS: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College (9.01 CGPA)

Copyright (SW-19615/2024)

Image Encryption and Decryption using AES Algorithm

Publications

Cloud-based Digital Forensics

IJAR (2023) · IJREAM (2024)

04 / Selected Work

Adversary Emulation

Medusa Ransomware

Replicated complete ransomware attack-chain behavior to validate SOC telemetry, identify detection gaps mapped against the MITRE ATT&CK framework, and engineer custom Cortex XDR detections.

Threat Emulation Cortex XDR MITRE ATT&CK

Digital Forensics

Secure Chain

Architected a containerized cloud digital forensics platform built for high-speed artifact indexing, investigation, and forensic workflow visualization.

Docker Flask MongoDB Elasticsearch

Application Security

Secure Storage

Developed an Android Java application focused on data confidentiality, integrating robust client-side AES symmetric encryption seamlessly with Firebase services for secure cloud asset storage.

Android Java AES Firebase

05 / Credential Archive

9 CERTIFICATIONS

Security Domains

VAPT · Web App Security · EASM · SOC · Digital Forensics · Network Security

Enterprise Platforms

Cortex XDR · Nessus Expert · Orca Cloud · Burp Suite Pro · Barracuda · PhishLine

Offensive & Forensics

Nmap · Metasploit · Impacket · BloodHound · Hashcat · FTK Imager · Autopsy · Volatility 3

Development & Infrastructure

Python · Bash · Java · C · JavaScript · Docker · Flask · MongoDB · Redis · Azure · OCI

07 / Connect

Let's connect.

Available for security assessments, infrastructure defense, and collaborative professional opportunities.

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Prasad Madye — Cybersecurity Analyst