MANICARAJ SUNDARAM
Chennai
Summary
Cryptographic security professional with over 9 years of experience in securing enterprise environments through robust data protection strategies and threat resilience. Specialized in implementing and managing encryption solutions, key management systems, and secure communications protocols to protect sensitive assets. Led cross-functional initiatives involving cryptographic enforcement in Red and Blue Team operations, blending offensive insights with defensive controls to harden systems. Skilled in tools such as Thales CipherTrust (CTE), Luna HSM, EJBCA, FortiGate, Qualys, and Cortex XDR, with hands-on experience in cryptographic vulnerability assessment, certificate lifecycle management, and secure algorithm implementation. Well-versed in frameworks like NIST, FIPS 140-2, and MITRE ATT&CK, I provide strategic guidance on compliance, encryption standards, and secure architecture under high-stakes conditions.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Cyber Security Analyst
Valeo India Pvt Ltd
07.2021 - Current
- Led the administration deployment of Thales CipherTrust for data-at-rest encryption and policy enforcement.
- Luna HSM Management.
- Qualys for continuous vulnerability scanning and remediation coordination.
- Collaborated with IT and application teams to ensure timely patch deployment across the environment.
- Managed and monitored Cortex XDR for advanced threat detection and incident response.
- Configured FortiGate firewalls and FortiManager for secure network access and traffic monitoring.
- Conducted Red Team simulations to identify security gaps through ethical hacking techniques.
- Contributed to Blue Team strategies by tuning SIEM rules, and responding to real-time threats.
- Performed static and dynamic analysis of suspicious files to assess malware behavior and impact.
Solution Design Network and Security Engineer
Tailwind Technologies Pvt Ltd
04.2018 - 06.2021
- Identified and immediately resolved issues with network devices, including firewalls, Switches and Security products.
- Cisco Routing and Switching Configured and performed troubleshooting with routing and switching protocols, including BGP, OSPF and EIGRP.
- FIREWALL INTEGRATION - SNMP v3, sFlow v5, syslog-based RFC 3195
- AAA - LDAP, Radius and TACACS+, POP3/POP3S, user access (802.1x, captive portal) authentication, Design, deploy and manage Encryption & PKI solutions and process solutions to reduce the potential of data compromise.
- Develop technical requirements, evaluate vendor solutions for PKI Encryption solutions like Vormetric, AWS cloud EKS and HSM (Hardware Security Module)
- Preparing technical standard operating procedures for Encryption tool.
- Ongoing project management and relationship development
- Conducting workshops to highlight the project status and gather updates on expectation.
- Ensuring SLAs/SLOs/OLAs related to incident PAM - Delinea Secret Server and Beyond Trust
System and Network Engineer
E-caps India Pvt Ltd
05.2015 - 03.2018
- Provided network support services for devices such as hubs, bridges, routers and other hardware.
- Initiated and managed network test facilities to verify network hardness and resilience.
- Established robust infrastructure and data capacity for new applications.
- Applied tier-isolation best practices to support multi-tier architectures.
- Provided firewall and VPN management, Network security and incident response.
- Provided network support and performed troubleshooting to resolve various WAN/LAN connectivity issues.
- Demonstrated advanced knowledge of large-scale global enterprise network operations and security.
Education
Bsc CS -
Alagappa University
04-2025
Diploma in Computer Networking -
P.S.G Polytechnic College
Coimbatore04.2015
SSLC -
N.G.R.A High School
04.2012
Skills
- Enterprise cryptography
- Vulnerability management across diverse environments
- Automated patch deployment
- Endpoint protection with integrated data encryption, and secure policy enforcement
- Data-at-rest and data-in-transit encryption implementation using industry standards (eg, AES-256, RSA, TLS)
- Secure firewall architecture and encrypted traffic inspection with SSL/TLS decryption policies
- Ethical hacking
- HSM
- EJBCA Community - Open-source PKI software
- Strategic understanding of frameworks like NIST, FIPS 140-2, and PKI lifecycle models
- Incident response
- Threat hunting
- Malware reverse engineering
- Comprehensive penetration testing
- Scripting for crypto automation (certificate parsing, hashing, secure file handling)
Certification
- CEH, Ec council, 05/03/23
- AWS SAA-C03, AWS, 07/07/24
- NSE 5, Fortinet, 05/01/22
- SNSA, SonicWALL, 07/01/20
- Qualys VA Management, Qualys, 05/01/22
- PALO ALTO NETWORKS ACCREDITED SYSTEMS ENGINEER (PSE), PALO ALTO, 05/01/19
- SCUP & SCEP, Quick heal, 06/30/20
- SEQRITE CERTIFIED UTM PROFESSIONAL
- CompTIA+
- ISC2
Languages
- Tamil
- English
- Malayalam
Years Of Experience
9+ years
Languages
Tamil
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Accomplishments
- Qualys VA Management
- Best Employee of the Month
- Pentest Honor
- Data Security Award
Timeline
Cyber Security Analyst
Valeo India Pvt Ltd
07.2021 - Current
Solution Design Network and Security Engineer
Tailwind Technologies Pvt Ltd
04.2018 - 06.2021
System and Network Engineer
E-caps India Pvt Ltd
05.2015 - 03.2018
Bsc CS -
Alagappa University
Diploma in Computer Networking -
P.S.G Polytechnic College
SSLC -
N.G.R.A High School
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