Parin Dedhia

I am a network security professional having experience in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS).


Work Experience

Security Researcher

Mcafee Software India

McAfee creates a best-of-breed computer security solution that prevents intrusions on networks and protects computer systems from the next generations of blended attacks and threats.

September 2015 - March 2022
June 2005 - October 2014

Member of Technical Staff 3

NetSkope Software India

NetSkope is the cloud app analytics and policy company that brings IT and the cloud together. NetSkope platform provides complete visibility into cloud apps and enforces sophisticated policies to make them safe, compliant, and high performance.

October 2014 - September 2015

Software Validation Engineer

Internet Trends India Pvt Ltd.

Internet Trends (I) Pvt Ltd is an Internet Infrastructure company which specializes in developing cutting edge solutions which address the requirement of Networking and Security domain.

Sep 2000 - May 2005

Education

IGNOU

Bachelors in Computer Application
Jan 2000 - June 2004

Shah and Anchor Kutchi Polytechnic

Diploma in Digital Electronics
August 1993 - April 1997

Mcafee

Responsibility at Mcafee

Working on Mcafee Network Security Platform (NSP)
Lead the team of 7 researchers in competitive third-party efficacy testing.
Developing and improving IPS signatures.
Unit testing IPS signatures for known vulnerabilities.
Peer review signatures before release to world.
Updation of signatures for better accuracy and performance.
Working with external vulnerability feeds like TELUS and tools like Breaking Point to improve threat coverage.
Perform dynamic analysis of malicious samples and provide coverage for PUP, Bot, phishing, malware, keyloggers.
Handling customer escalations.
Monitor for false positive on live deployments.
Collaborating with cross functional teams such as QA, Dev.
Provide guidance and mentorship to new IPS team members by having discussions, reviews, and suggestions for day-to-day tasks
Helping team members during issues.
Working with Build / Release and Support teams to build and release weekly signature software to worldwide customer base.
Lab/Infrastructure monitoring and maintenance.

NetSkope

Responsibility of security research and content development of next gen Internet SaaS applications.
Research and analyze how SaaS apps work.
Perform Deep Packet Analysis of the internals of the SaaS apps.
Develop content to identify various aspects of SaaS apps.
Worked on SaaS apps such as DocuSign etc.

Internet Trends

Performed QA on network security applications

NetProwler 3.5
MPLS Emulator (GUI Testing)
Product Registration System.
RealBlocker Internet Security
Performed OS Installation on the new systems and deployed OS update patches.
Troubleshooting hardware and networking problems and assisted colleagues and senior members.


Interests

Apart from working on computers, I like getting my hands dirty with soil doing gardening. I have potted a lot of plants like Periwinkle, Saussurea obvallata (Brahma Kamal), Carrom leaf etc. Like them seeing growing.

I like watching movies and television shows, Also watching cricket especially Indian Premiere League.


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