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Prerit Shah

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Angestellt, Junior IT Security Consultant, X1F GmbH
Student, Cybersecurity, University of Saarland
Saarbrücken, Germany

Skills

Security
Network Security
IT Security
Web Security
Application Security
Vulnerability Scanner
Web Application Firewall
Informationssicherheit
Cloud Computing

Timeline

Professional experience for Prerit Shah

  • Current 2 years and 1 month, since Apr 2023

    Junior IT Security Consultant

    X1F GmbH

    Conducted over 20 penetration tests on web, mobile (Android/iOS), network, and system applications, identifying and reporting an average of 15 vulnerabilities per assessment. Served as service owner for phishing campaigns, designing, executing, and overseeing campaigns using the GoPhish tool, leading to a 15% increase in employee phishing awareness. Supporting the Engineering and Security Solutions team with Splunk Enterprise Security.

  • 6 months, Apr 2022 - Sep 2022

    Senior MSS Engineer - L2

    Indusface Pvt. Ltd.

    Led incident response for critical security events, reducing downtime by an average of 4 hours and mitigating potential financial losses of $5000 per incident. • Developed and implemented custom WAF rules, resulting in a 20% reduction in false positives and a 15% increase in attack detection rates. • Provided executive client support, summarizing daily test results, and preparing monthly dashboards. • Advanced troubleshooting via thorough log analysis; escalation point for L1 team.

  • 1 year and 7 months, Sep 2020 - Mar 2022

    Associate MSS Engineer

    Indusface Pvt. Ltd.

    Analyzed and documented daily vulnerability scan results. • Developed Apache mod security WAF signatures and custom JSON web application scanner scripts. • Performed WAF traffic log analysis for incident management. • Provided executive client support.

Educational background for Prerit Shah

  • Current 2 years and 7 months, since Oct 2022

    Cybersecurity

    University of Saarland

  • 3 years, Aug 2017 - Jul 2020

    Information Security and Cloud Technology

    Ajeenkya DY Patil University

Languages

  • English

    Fluent

  • German

    Intermediate

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