About

Prasanna is a Senior Manager in Security Engineering at Ola Group of companies with over 6 years of relevant experience. He is a Security Engineer with skills in securing products and infrastructure using both offensive and defensive approaches. Prasanna is highly keen on learning new systems, technologies, and security models by strongly focusing on basics to solve advanced problems. He believes in Transformational Leadership to improvise culture, be result-oriented, inspirational, and productive. Prasanna has exposure to various security models that help in building secure and reliable systems. He is skilled in security automation for InfraSec, Incident Response, and Management, Threat Intelligence. He has a strong understanding of network protocols, devices, and security controls. Prasanna is experienced in securing Cloud services and identifying misconfigurations in them. He is skilled in Penetration testing of servers, web applications, and mobile applications (Android & iOS). Prasanna has a strong understanding of secure design patterns, architectures, and coding practices. He has experience in securely using and onboarding third-party applications, libraries, etc. Prasanna has experience in securely integrating payment gateways and services. He is also experienced in IT Infra Penetration testing and Active Directory Security. Prasanna has experience in inculcating various data privacy laws across products. He is skilled in scripting with Bash, Python, PHP, and Java to develop Android Application Exploits. Prasanna has hands-on experience with security testing tools such as BurpSuite, MobSF, Drozer, SQLMap, Wireshark/Tcpdump, Metasploit, Security Monkey, etc. He has implemented a virtualized home lab to test, evaluate new technologies, and hacking approaches. Currently, Prasanna is working as a Senior Security Engineer, Team Lead at Hotstar. He is responsible for leading InfraSec using strategies like secure by default postures, defense-in-depth, etc. Prasanna is leading Incident Response and Management and using automation to handle scale and ops. He provides Product Security in Hotstar B2C & B2B Products and Security assurance to customers. Prasanna is responsible for Content Security for OTT Products and controls piracy via Threat Intelligence. He strategizes Trust & Fraud, Security Programs for Engineering Teams & Security Team. Prasanna brings Cultural Changes for Security Hygiene and Discipline in Products, Team, Processes. He provides KPIs of Security Programs and Initiatives to Management. Prasanna handles applicable