About

Amar Prasad is an experienced AWS Solution Architect Associate and Cloud Security Engineer with over 5 years of experience in Network Security Engineering. He is currently working at Umbrella Infocare Pvt Ltd as a Cloud Security Engineer, where he is responsible for maintaining high availability and cluster firewall environments using Check Point High Availability. He also troubleshoots firewall configurations remotely, supporting all seven globe facilities of Innodata managed firewall solutions for India, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Headquarter (US) New Jersey. Amar has expertise in creating IPsec VPN, SSL and RA VPN, Layer 7 Traffic Filtering, Tracking, and Monitoring. He has also configured IPS, IDS, and DLP on Checkpoint Firewall. Additionally, he has hands-on experience with routing protocols like RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP. Prior to his current role, Amar worked as a Network and Security Engineer at Innodata Inc. for 5.6 years. He maintained high availability cluster firewall environments using Check Point Firewalls (R80.10/.20) and troubleshooted firewall configurations remotely, supporting all seven globe facilities of Innodata managed firewall solutions for India, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and the United States. He also created and managed site-to-site IPsec VPN, remote access VPN, and configured URL Filtering, Tracking, and Monitoring IPS and IDS on Checkpoint and ASA Firewall. He managed Cisco ACS, Routers, Switches (L2 and L3) and Cisco ASA FIREWALL, including S2S VPN, RA VPN, and SFR (URL filtering). Amar holds a Master of Science in Cyber Security from Uttarakhand Open University, which he completed in 2021, and a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, which he completed in 2012. Amar's tech stack includes AWS and Senior Software Engineer. He has relevant experience of 3.68 years.