VIVEK CHHIKARA DEFENSE • SOC • NERVE

ROLE REMOTE • WORLDWIDE • FULL-TIME OR CONTRACT

Cybersecurity & SOC Engineer

L7 NERVE THREAT NET • L9 CTIS ADAPTIVE SOC • ZERO NOISE

I treat attackers as intelligent human adversaries who adapt. I design threat telemetry that correlates attacks globally and enforces decisive bans with zero false-positive escalations.

DESCEND INTO THE DEFENSIVE LAYERS

01 WHAT I BRING

Observe locally.
Correlate globally. Enforce decisively.

Traditional security tools are fragmented — an attack on one endpoint leaves others blind. In NERVE and CTIS, every edge service is an active telemetry sensor reporting to a central correlation brain.

  • Distributed Threat Correlation: Probing any single endpoint immediately propagates reputation degradation across the entire system matrix.
  • Behavioral Threat Scoring: Dynamic attacker risk scoring that decays over time while persistently retaining historical threat fingerprints.
  • Deception & Honeypot Kernels: Fake admin endpoints, decoy credentials, and kernel-level honeypots that trap malicious scanners instantly.
  • Adaptive SOC (CTIS): Eliminating alert fatigue by automating responses and centralizing true defensive authority.
  • Hardened Execution Kernels: Sandboxed Docker Swarm networks, automated IP quarantines, and zero-trust TLS encryption.

CASE NERVE DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENCE

A living sensor grid.
1,800+ nodes actively defending.

In NERVE, every web environment functions as an early-warning telemetry sensor. When a malicious actor attempts SQL injections, brute-force logins, or directory traversal, the entire network reacts.

Attackers find themselves sandboxed into simulated decoy responses while their IP blocks are quarantined before they ever touch critical databases.

  • Distributed Telemetry
  • Cross-Site Correlation
  • Behavioral Scoring
  • Global Quarantine

CASE CTIS ADAPTIVE SOC

Systems that think.
Not alerts that spam.

CTIS (Centralized Threat Intelligence & Response System) is the culmination of 16+ years of live-fire operational engineering.

By uniting persistent memory, infrastructure automation, and behavioral tracing, security analysts never drown in thousands of false positives.

0 FALSE-POSITIVE ESCALATIONS UNDER LIVE FIRE

CASE VIVEK DEVOPS SECURITY CORE

Kernel-level honeypots.
God Admin access control.

Custom security plugins deployed across Docker Swarm nodes provide continuous runtime integrity monitoring and instantaneous isolation of compromised processes.

Hardened headers, least-privilege role separation, and encrypted environment secret injection make unauthorized lateral movement virtually impossible.

  • Honeypots
  • Zero Trust
  • Automated IP Quarantine
  • Docker Sandboxing

SECURITY DOCTRINEOPERATING ASSUMPTIONS

How I defend systems

01

Assume breach, limit blast radius.

Every service is isolated in its own network overlay with zero lateral access to siblings unless explicitly authorized.

02

Decisive automated counter-action.

Humans cannot react in milliseconds to automated exploit bots. Defenses must contain threats autonomously and decisively.

03

Zero tolerance for alert fatigue.

If an alert doesn't require immediate human judgment or indicate high confidence, it belongs in automated remediation, not an analyst's inbox.

STACK DEFENSIVE TOOLCHAIN

The security arsenal.

  • Threat Intelligence
  • Adaptive SOC
  • SIEM Architecture
  • Deception / Honeypots
  • WAF / Traefik Filtering
  • Linux Hardening
  • Zero Trust TLS
  • Incident Response
  • Docker Swarm Isolation
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL

100% AUTONOMOUS DETECTION • ZERO DRIFT

FAQSECURITY QUESTIONS

Frequently asked

What makes your SOC architecture different?

Most SOCs rely on thousands of noisy rules that exhaust teams. My CTIS framework uses persistent memory and cross-node correlation to eliminate noise, maintaining a record of zero false-positive escalations under live attacks.

Can you audit and harden existing cloud environments?

Yes. I perform deep architectural security reviews, configure zero-trust network boundaries, deploy honeypot monitoring, and eliminate single points of compromise.

Are you available for remote security roles?

Yes, open to full-time remote cybersecurity engineering and SOC leadership positions worldwide.

How can we connect?

Send an email to [email protected] or connect on LinkedIn.

INITIATE ENGAGEMENT

Need a system that defends itself?

Open to full-time remote security roles and proactive architecture stabilization worldwide.