Cybersecurity Analyst · Fresher · 0 yrs

Ishaan Deshmukh

Cybersecurity Analyst (Entry-Level / SOC Tier 1)

Professional summary

Final-year Information Security graduate who lives in the SOC mindset — triaging alerts, hunting threats and writing tight incident notes. Hands-on with SIEM (Splunk, Wazuh), vulnerability assessment (Nessus, OpenVAS) and penetration testing (Burp Suite, Metasploit) across home-lab and CTF environments. CEH and CompTIA Security+ certified, ranked in the top 5% on TryHackMe, and disciplined about the MITRE ATT&CK framework and clean evidence handling.

Top 5%

TryHackMe global rank

90%+

Lab detection rate

2

Industry certs (CEH, Security+)

Skills

Security operations

SIEM (Splunk, Wazuh)Threat detectionLog analysisMITRE ATT&CKIncident response (triage)

Offensive & assessment

Penetration testingVulnerability assessmentBurp SuiteMetasploitNmapNessusOpenVAS

Network & systems

Firewalls (pfSense, iptables)TCP/IPWiresharkLinuxActive DirectoryWindows hardening

Foundations & tooling

ISO 27001 (awareness)OWASP Top 10Python scriptingBashGitCryptography basics

Work experience

SOC Analyst Intern · SentinelArc Security

Jun 2025Sep 2025

Remote

  • Triaged 60+ daily SIEM alerts in Splunk during shift rotations, escalating 14 true-positive incidents to Tier 2 with documented IOCs and ATT&CK mappings.
  • Authored 8 detection rules for brute-force and suspicious-PowerShell activity, cutting false positives on those use cases ~22%.
  • Ran weekly vulnerability scans with Nessus across 40+ hosts and prepared remediation tickets that closed 31 medium/high findings.
  • Documented 5 incident-response playbooks for phishing and malware containment, adopted by the Tier 1 onboarding guide.

Featured projects

90%+ detection rate
HomeSOC — detection lab

Self-built security operations lab simulating attacks and end-to-end detection.

  • Deployed Wazuh SIEM + Sysmon across 4 VMs and ingested logs to build dashboards detecting lateral movement and credential dumping.
  • Emulated 12 MITRE ATT&CK techniques with Atomic Red Team and tuned alerts to a 90%+ detection rate against the test set.
SIEMWazuhMITRE ATT&CKThreat detection
17 findings reported
VulnForge — pentest report

Full vulnerability assessment and penetration test of an intentionally vulnerable web app.

  • Chained SQL injection and IDOR to full account takeover, then wrote a CVSS-scored report with reproduction steps and fixes.
  • Reported 17 findings across the OWASP Top 10 and verified remediation in a re-test, dropping the risk score 68%.
Penetration testingBurp SuiteOWASPVulnerability assessment

Education

B.Tech Computer Science (Cyber Security)

2026

Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Pune

CGPA 8.6/10 · Coursework: Network Security, Cryptography, Ethical Hacking, Digital Forensics, Risk Management

Certifications

Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

EC-Council · 2025

CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701)

CompTIA · 2025

Achievements

Top 5% global ranking on TryHackMe; cleared 70+ rooms across offensive and defensive paths.

Captured 3rd place (of 90 teams) at the InCTF Jeopardy CTF, leading the web-exploitation category.

See the work in 3D

Explore Ishaan's interactive WebGL portfolio — projects, skills and a way to get in touch.