I protect networks, applications and data. My work spans a university police SOC, vulnerability testing at two power utilities, and AWS partner compliance for a software company. I hold an M.Eng. in Cybersecurity from the University of Maryland.
$ nmap -sV --profile samyak.jain
Scan report for samyak.jain (East Windsor, NJ)
Host is up. Latency: 0.00s (open to work)PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open security-operations
80/tcp open app-security (DAST/VAPT)
443/tcp open cloud-security (AWS)
514/udp open siem (Splunk, QRadar)
8443/tcp open compliance (NIST, ISO)
6514/tcp open incident-response
Service detection performed.
1 host up, 0 vulnerabilities found.$
Helped the company reach AWS Select Tier Partner status by meeting AWS Partner Network requirements, preparing cloud security documentation and supporting Foundational Technical Review (FTR) security assessments.
Wrote security and privacy documentation for proprietary software, covering security requirements, application testing and compliance with industry best practices.
Built and tested AI-powered document processing and OCR proofs-of-concept for automated data extraction and validation.
Ran technical demonstrations of these proofs-of-concept for stakeholders.
AWS APNFTRAppSec testingOCR / AI
Jun 2023 – Sep 20263 yrs 4 mos
Security Operations Center Monitor
University of Maryland Police Department
Real-time security system monitoring, incident escalation and incident documentation.
Monitored 700+ security systems, identifying and escalating real-time incidents to support emergency response.
Wrote 1,000+ incident reports, documenting events accurately for response teams and records.
Monitor of the Month, April 2024
Sep 2023 – Dec 202312 weeks
Network Security Intern
TATA Power Southern Odisha Distribution Limited
Researched 10+ network protocols and 6+ security tool categories: firewalls, SIEM, SOAR, VPN, EDR and IDS/IPS.
Operated three SIEM platforms: ArcSight, QRadar and Security Onion.
Managed security configurations for Fortinet Firewall and Trend Micro Deep Security, and applied protections with Proton VPN.
Gave 20+ presentations on security policy management and standard procedures.
Ran dynamic application security testing (DAST) with VAPT tools including OWASP ZAP, Nessus, Sqlmap, Metasploit and Burp Suite.
Wrote vulnerability reports with a 99% true positive rate.
Led workshops on the OWASP Top 10, demonstrating real-world exploitation and secure coding practices to raise security awareness.
OWASP ZAPNessusSqlmapMetasploitBurp Suite
Projects
Case files
CASE-01 · Cloud security
Website Migration to AWS
Moved a company website from a local VM to AWS to improve availability and performance, with security controls in place: firewall, S3, IAM, RDS and patch management.
AWS S3IAMRDSFirewallPatching
99.9%uptime
−40%downtime
50%+faster performance
CASE-02 · Threat intelligence
Text Monitoring with NLP for Threat Intelligence
Built NLP keyword extraction to surface threat indicators and attack patterns from large volumes of cybersecurity text, then presented the approach to defense scientists at a university conference.