About

Nishtha Tripathi is a highly skilled Security IT professional with 7.5 years of experience in the industry. She has worked as a developer for 2 years and is now working as a Security Engineer at Amazon, where she is responsible for incident response. Nishtha has also acted as a bridge between application and information security teams. Nishtha is experienced in incident response, malware analysis, reversing scripts, and Python automation. She has worked in cloud security using KQL for both Azure and AWS. Nishtha's relevant experience in the industry is 6.52 years. In her previous role as a Manager at Genpact, Nishtha was responsible for monitoring alerts and analyzing incidents by correlating different logs from different tools while maintaining the SLA throughout 24*7. She was also responsible for tuning various security tools and timely review of use-cases to ensure fidelity and actionable alerts are triggered. Additionally, Nishtha created and recommended changes to SOAR Playbooks by identifying gaps during the incident response process. She has knowledge of reverse engineering tools and processes, including disassemblers, decompilers, debuggers, and unpacking binary. As a Senior Security Analyst at Ford, Nishtha was responsible for detecting and responding to advanced threats, techniques, anomalous or suspicious behavior in the system with combined inputs from the Threat Intelligence Team. She also conducted static and dynamic analysis of malware using different tools, debugging scripts, and identifying IOCs through research, sandboxing, and reversing. Nishtha has working experience in detecting, analyzing, and correlating logs using various CSM and NSM tools. Nishtha holds a Master of Engineering degree in Computer Engineering from Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad, and is currently pursuing an Executive Masters in Cyber/Computer Forensics and Counterterrorism from IIT, which she is expected to complete in 2023. Her tech stack includes AWS, Azure, Python, and Research Scientist.