ABDUL RAZZAQUE
Cybersecurity Consultant
Riyadh
Summary
Proactive Cybersecurity professional with over 12 years of experience. Ready to stand between businesses and threat actors. Lifelong student of developments in threat detection and mitigation. Adept at assisting with every stage of cybersecurity management, from preventive measures to disaster mitigation and recovery. Passion for aligning security architecture plans and processes with security standards and business goals.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
12
12
Certifications
Work History
Cybersecurity Consultant
Security Matterz
Riyadh
02.2022 - Current
- Providing consultancy as well as professional services to customers in field of cybersecurity
- Design of right enterprise and solution security architectures for clients
- Governance, risk and compliance audit for MSSP services provided by company for several big customers
- Good understanding of standards and regulations such as PCI-DSS, GDPR, SAMA, NCA etc
- Help clients identify security and privacy-related, legal or business risks and implement appropriate organizational and technical measures
- Multi-vendor and multi-technology implementation experience ranging from NGFW (Forcepoint, Palo Alto and Fortinet), NAC Solution (Cisco and Aruba), Proxy solutions (Forcepoint and Symantec), DLP (Forcepoint), Load Balancer and WAF from (F5) to name few
Cybersecurity Consultant
ITB
Riyadh
02.2019 - 01.2022
- Responsible for managing ITB internal network administration, implementation, expansion, governance and compliance with industry standard and regulations such as NCA, SAMA, NIST, ISO27K etc
- Participating in various projects taking care of network and security part
- Manage multiple vendors providing facility maintenance and repair, cleaning, power installation and cabling
- Support all existing and new hardware technology in data center
- Coordinate hardware installation projects
- Working on Cisco routers and switches, Firewalls: ASA, Palo-Alto, Forcepoint and Fortinet Firewalls, F5 Load Balancer and Web Application Firewall
- Handling projects related to Aruba ClearPass NAC solution and Symantec BlueCoat proxyASG.
Network Security Engineer/Team Leader
Royal Saudi Airforce, RSAF
Riyadh
02.2016 - 01.2019
- Managed NOC team of 14 members in technical aspects as well as ensuring adherence to NOC operations, procedures and SLA
- Highlighted to RSAF management any technical risks that exist in network, and take required corrective actions
- Provided technical support for troubleshooting technologies used in RSAF network like MPLS, OSPF, BGP, Multicast etc.
- Managed company Bring Your Own Device program, onboarding employee devices and verifying absence of inherent security threats.
- Created standardized incident response program to outline immediate and consistent remediation of network incidents.
- Implemented necessary controls and procedures to protect information system assets from intentional or inadvertent modification, disclosure or destruction.
Network Engineer
Al Asila
Riyadh
11.2009 - 01.2016
- Worked on site on behalf of Al Asila for Royal Saudi Air Force’s NECC (Network Engineering and Communication Center) department
- NOC was responsible for managing RSAF WAN network which was known as High-Speed Network that connects all airbases and radar sites together
- Monitored RSAF back bone network (HSN) based on Nortel ATM 7K and 15K Multi Service switches
- Configuration management of Cisco switches (6500, 4500, 3750) on LAN side as per customer requirement
- Troubleshot and remediate network outages and performance problems
- Alongside operation and maintenance of ATM network, handled Implementation of Cisco IP/MPLS network project that would replace existing ATM Network
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication Engineering
KBN College of Engineering
Karnataka, India 06.2003 - 06.2007
Skills
Data Security
Governance and Compliance
Cybersecurity Framework (SAMA-CSF, NCA-ECC, ISO27K, NIST 800-53)
Risk Assesment
Web Security Solutions
Data Loss Prevention Solutions
NAC Solutions
NGFW Solutions
Routing and Switching
Certification
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Timeline
Cybersecurity Consultant
Security Matterz
02.2022 - Current
Cybersecurity Consultant
ITB
02.2019 - 01.2022
Network Security Engineer/Team Leader
Royal Saudi Airforce, RSAF
02.2016 - 01.2019
Network Engineer
Al Asila
11.2009 - 01.2016
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication Engineering
KBN College of Engineering
06.2003 - 06.2007