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CERTIFICATIONS
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Abrar Alzhrani

Jeddah

Summary

Skilled SOC Team Lead with experties in threat detection, indident response, and managing 24/7 security operations. Strong leadership in optimizing SIEM,EDR and NDR tools, guiding analyst, and aligning security efforts with business goals.

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience
1
1
year of post-secondary education

Work history

SOC Team lead

Jeddah municipality
Jeddah
02.2024 - Current
  • Lead, monitor, and coordinate a SOC team , ensuring they effectively monitor, analyze and respond to security incidents 24/7.
  • Analyzed cybersecurity incidents that have escalated from L1/L2.
  • Develop and fine-tune SIEM use cases
  • Generate a monthly report regarding the SOC team detection result and share it with NCA.
  • Provided leadership and direction for employees, supervising activities to drive productivity and efficiency.
  • Supported Operation team in solutions implementation and daily tasks.
  • collaborated with IT, compliance and risk teams to align security operation with business objective.

Cybersecurity defense specialist

Jeddah municipality
Jeddah
01.2023 - 02.2024
  • Work with IPS, EDR, NDR and other cyber security monitoring tools.
  • Analyze and investigate SIEM Alerts.
  • Collect necessary data and deliver detailed incident report.


Education

Master's degree in AI and ML -

Drexel University
Philadelphia, United State
06.2021 - 09.2022

Courses

  • Troubleshooting Splunk Enterprise
  • Using Splunk Enterprise Security
  • Configuring BIG-IP AWAF
  • Administering BIG-IP & Configuring BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager(LTM)
  • ISO/IEC 27001LA Lead Auditor
  • EC-Council Digital Forensics Essential

● Administering Splunk Enterprise Security

CERTIFICATIONS

eLearnSecurity Certified Threat Hunting Professional (eCTHP)

TOOLS

Splunk, Elastic, Carbon black, Linkshadow, WAF, Email and Web security(Cisco)

Timeline

SOC Team lead

Jeddah municipality
02.2024 - Current

Cybersecurity defense specialist

Jeddah municipality
01.2023 - 02.2024

Master's degree in AI and ML -

Drexel University
06.2021 - 09.2022
Abrar Alzhrani