Mingmar Lama
An Independent Security Researcher or so what i like to refer myself as with signs of ADHD, Networking and Cyber Security fresher having previous experience at one of the major MSSP from Nepal in researching, deploying, testing and validating well-known security products of Fortinet, Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Forcepoint, F5 with never ending list of the vendors done for the sake of internet safety.
Currently working as SOC Analyst at one of the top Australian MSSP having hands-on experience in SIEM/SOAR, EDR & XDR tools of vendors such as Crowdstrike, Rapid7, Trendmicro and Google SecOps monitoring, investigating and collaborating with other analysts/engineers to resolve and mitigate security events.
🔧 Technical Skills
🛡️ Security Ops | 🐧 Linux | 🌐 Networking | ☁️ Cloud (AWS) | 📦 Virtualization | 🐍 Python
🌟 Soft Skills
🤝 Team Leadership | 🗣️ Communication | ⏰ Time Management | 📊 Project Coordination
💼 Experience
Stickman Consulting Pty Ltd | Security Operations Analyst (L1)
Mar 2024 – Present
- Monitor, analyze, and resolve security alerts.
- Follow and improve both work instruction playbooks and runbook automations activities.
- Conduct regular security audits and assessments to identify potential vulnerabilities and threats.
- Respond to security incidents, investigate and remediate them.
- Stay current on new security technologies and threats and recommend solutions to improve security posture.
Vairav Technology Security Pvt Ltd | Associate Cyber Security Research Analyst
Feb 2023 – Mar 2024
- Product research of multiple leading security vendors.
- System deployment and administration of the products in the cloud.
- Create working mechanisms for various offensive test cases.
- Test, analyze and validate the products.
- Report the test analysis of the products.
Islington College | Student Academic Representative
Sept 2022 – Apr 2024
- Provide academic aid to students.
- Provide ideas and feedback on weekly basis about the classes and all the other activities in the college.
- Represent the college in different events.
🎓 Education
BSc. Hons in Networking & IT Security
London Metropolitan University | 2020 – 2024
Received First Class Honours Award with 82%
+2 in Management
Arunima College (NEB) | 2018 – 2020
📋 Projects
🚨 AIRCA | Automated Incident Response for Cyber Anomalies
May 2024
- Developed automated light-weighted containerized SOAR like platform to detect and prevent different cyber threats seen in endpoint machines with integrated CTI.
- Tools: Docker, Python, MITRE ATT&CK.
🔥 Advanced Cloud Firewalls (ACFW)
Nov 2023
- Deployed and Configured various leading network security vendors’ next-gen firewall products in the cloud and tested it’s security rigidness against different attacks.
⚔️ C2 Automation with Cobalt Strike
May 2023
- Developed aggressor scripts with a main python script that would send payloads generated by using various APT group profiles to the victims/beacons and have them call back to the main C2 / TeamServer and perform the specified operations.
📜 Certifications
