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
Offensive & assessment
Network & systems
Foundations & tooling
Work experience
SOC Analyst Intern · SentinelArc Security
Jun 2025 – Sep 2025Remote
- 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
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.
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%.
Education
B.Tech Computer Science (Cyber Security)
2026Symbiosis 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.