I’m Sanya Sachdeva, a Cybersecurity & Network Security Engineer at Cisco, focused on Wireless Security, Zero Trust, Detection Engineering, Incident Response, and Security Automation.

Currently working as a Technical Consulting Engineer II / Team Lead, where I troubleshoot complex enterprise wireless and security issues, build automation workflows, support global customers, and contribute to scalable technical knowledge across Cisco platforms.

I’m actively building toward roles in:

• SOC Detection Engineering
• Threat Detection & Response
• Security Automation
• Cloud & Network Security
• Zero Trust Architecture

• Detection Engineering & Threat Hunting
• MITRE ATT&CK Mapping
• Zero Trust Architecture
• Wireless Security: 802.1X, WiFi 7, 5G, RF
• Incident Response & Packet-Level Forensics
• SIEM/SOAR Workflows
• Cloud IAM & Access Security
• Vulnerability Assessment

Security Tools: Splunk, Wireshark, Nmap, Nessus, Burp Suite, Microsoft Defender, SOAR, Grafana
Frameworks: MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, OWASP, SOC 2, CIA Triad, AAA
Cloud & Networking: AWS IAM, GCP IAM, Kubernetes, TCP/IP, IPSec, SSL/TLS, SAML, SSO, 802.1X
Programming: Python, Bash, SQL, PowerShell, Linux/UNIX, HTML, CSS

Built a Python + Scapy based wireless IDS to detect 802.11 deauthentication attacks using packet-level analysis.

Key features:

• Raw packet inspection with Scapy
• MITRE ATT&CK mapping
• SIEM-style logging
• Identity-based alerting
• SOAR-style response workflow
• Zero Trust access enforcement concept

A collection of Python scripts for SOC and security automation workflows.

Includes:

• Log parsing
• IOC checks
• Nmap output parsing
• IAM policy review logic
• Basic alert enrichment workflows

• Promoted to Grade 6 / Team Lead at Cisco
• Achieved 100% CSAT on critical Sev1/Sev2 incidents
• Improved operational efficiency from 28.8% to 95.8% using automation
• Built enterprise-scale labs used in resolving 600+ security incidents
• Supported security adoption content reaching 150K+ professionals on LinkedIn and 2M+ users across Cisco platforms
• Selected as a Top 3 “Face of Cisco” candidate globally

• Google Cybersecurity Specialization
• Microsoft SC-900: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals
• Cisco Certified DevNet Associate
• Cisco Certified Network Associate
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Planned: CEH, CISSP

• Advanced Detection Engineering
• Sigma Rules
• Splunk SPL
• Threat Hunting Labs
• Cloud Security Detection
• AI in Cybersecurity

Built on discipline. Driven by curiosity.
Optimising for bigger arenas.