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Mostafa Mabrouk

Mostafa Mabrouk

Jeddah

Summary

Motivated Corporate Information Security Manager with 8 years of experience, recognized for assessing operational needs and developing solutions to save costs, improve revenues and drive customer satisfaction. Resourceful and well-organised with excellent leadership and team-building record.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
11
11
Certifications
2
2
Languages

Work History

Corporate Information Security Manager | Chief Information Security Officer

Magrabi Hospitals and Centres
01.2016 - Current
  • Define policies and procedures that are based on risk assessments and ensure that information security is addressed through the life cycle of each organizational information system
  • And ensure the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability
  • Develop new policies that aligned with the business objectives, and organization vision and mission
  • Review information security policies and updated as needed
  • Perform periodic assessments of risk including the magnitude of harm that could result from the unauthorized access, use disclosure, disruption, modification or destruction of information
  • Subordinate plans for providing adequate information security for networks, facilities, information systems, or groups of information systems as appropriate
  • Develop, maintain, and improve user security awareness program and its metrics
  • Implementing security controls selected based on Information Security Management Program and control life cycle
  • Periodic testing and evaluation of effectiveness of information security policies, procedures, practices, and security controls
  • Develop and execute procedures for detecting, reporting and responding to security incidents
  • Plans and procedures to ensure continuity of operations for organizational information systems
  • Develop a Process for planning, implementing, evaluating and documenting remedial actions to address any deficiencies in the information security policies, procedures, and practices of organization
  • Develop, end execute risk management system based on ISO 27001 standards (ISMS) and NIST SP800-53
  • Implementation of SOC (SIEM) and continuous monitoring the events based on the criticality Matrix
  • Designing and implementing strategies, budgets and Security Controls for meeting organizational requirements and growing business needs and implementing need based suitable technologies aligned with business
  • Spearheading the organizational department quality assurance activities, managing the complete business cycle including need assessment, preparing IS Blueprint, Strategic Management, and delivering quality technical/Administration/Operation controls
  • Accountable for developing all change management initiatives through stakeholder engagement, analysis and participation, preparing and executing readiness tests, establishing points of resistance
  • Conduct penetration testing internally to evaluate the effectiveness of the implemented controls
  • Managing Vulnerability Management System and do the needed prioritization to remediation plan based on the vulnerability criticality and impact of the business.
  • Sourced new and emerging technologies to optimize information services.
  • Controlled department budgets by sourcing cost-effective solutions.
  • Recommended upgraded technologies to meet evolving business requirements.
  • Negotiated cost-efficient prices with vendors for new systems and services.
  • Helped develop playbooks and exercises for incident response and remediation.
  • Monitored new threats, vulnerabilities and attacks and applied countermeasures to prevent intrusion.
  • Assessed application and infrastructure security to find and address vulnerabilities.
  • Drafted security governance policies and procedures for company assets.
  • Worked with application teams in applying secure practices to software implementation.
  • Recommended preventive security measures to decrease attack surfaces.

IT Manager

Magrabi Hospitals and Centers - Dental
01.2012 - 12.2015

Job Description:

  • Improving operational systems, processes & policies in support of organization's mission, assisting in better management reporting, information flow & management, business process and organizational planning
  • Prepared all necessary supplements required to ensure proper operation of a computer environment, ensured successful completion of software development and modification projects within time and budget
  • Managed assigned projects and program components to deliver services in accordance with company objectives and documenting change management for major software and infrastructure change
  • Ascertained all the Critical and High Priority Incidents are addressed within SLA and sent out the Critical Alerts for such Incidents, thus driving client satisfaction through the delivery of a quality and timely service
  • Enhanced infrastructure and ensuring continuous availability of licenses, file systems, support along with maintaining, and analyzing, troubleshooting and repairing server systems for large sized users.
  • Managed team of IT support technicians, developing workflows and processes.
  • Sourced new and emerging technologies to optimise information services.
  • Recruited, trained and managed IT teams to continually meet service user needs.
  • Oversaw execution of IT projects from inception to execution.
  • Oversaw daily operations to achieve high productivity levels.

Technical Support Manager

Smart Vision
05.2010 - 12.2011
  • High customer satisfactions results
  • Implementing service desk system to manage and follow up the service requests, incidents, and problems with the customers for the pro-active monitoring
  • Increasing the sales by 35%.
  • Liaised with service users and business managers to meet computing requirements
  • Coached junior support staff in delivering responsive, proactive technical support.
  • Managed server and network implementation according to agreed deliverables.
  • Assessed system performance to advise on possible updates and improvements.

Network Administrator/System Engineer

Magrabi Retail
03.2005 - 04.2010
  • Upgrade OS system from Windows server 2000 NT to Windows Server 2003
  • Upgrade Exchange server 2003 to Exchange server 2007, and then to Exchange server 2010
  • Upgrade Citrix Meta frame to XenApp 4.x
  • Install and configure corporate office Wi-Fi secured network
  • Member of a team that migrate the whole datacenter from Jeddah to Egypt as smooth as switching on/off.
  • Organized regular systems testing and maintenance to minimize breakdowns and help-desk queries.
  • Improved installation and configuration procedures to maintain stable traffic and response times.
  • Evaluated network performance to minimize downtime and address issues.
  • Analyzed complex project server issues and worked on large enterprise and business-critical applications.
  • Employed cybersecurity knowledge to establish stable connections and firewalls.
  • Standardized job tasks and trained junior team members on best practices and standards for optimum systems operations.
  • Investigated problems with hardware and software to trace faults.
  • Promoted continuous improvement by problem-solving and sharing suggestions to optimize team operations.
  • Designed digital and print materials to engage audiences.

Education

BSc. - Science

Ain Shams University
09.1993 - 06.1997

Skills

Project Management

Certification

C|CISO Chef Information Security Officer - EC-Council

Accomplishments

  • Develop and implement ISMS based on ISO27001 and NIST 800-53
  • Review and update the needed section of the information security policies and procedures
  • Develop and implement information security policies and procedures needed to allign with the business needs based on the risk assessment results and the organization risk appetite
  • Develop Risk Management and Risk Assessment framework
  • Develop and implement User Security Awareness Program
  • Implement Vulnerability Management System and Automated Penetration Testing
  • Conduct Internal Penetration Testing o Implement anti-malware and anti-ransomware end point
  • Conduct phishing campaign and Social Engineering Attack
  • Implement MFA (Multifactor Authentication) Office365 and remote desktop access
  • Implement vendor access system o Implement SIEM as a part of SOC (Log Analysis)
  • Implement asset management system
  • Arab Cyber Security Summit – Riyadh 2016 - Cisco Cyber Range – Jeddah - 2017
  • IDC Security Road show – Cairo 2018 - IDC IT Forum – Cairo 2018
  • Arab Cyber Security Conference – Egypt 2018 - Cyber Security CAMP – Egypt 2018
  • Speaker in IDC Digital Transformation – Digital Transformation Impact on Security

Timeline

Corporate Information Security Manager | Chief Information Security Officer

Magrabi Hospitals and Centres
01.2016 - Current

IT Manager

Magrabi Hospitals and Centers - Dental
01.2012 - 12.2015

Technical Support Manager

Smart Vision
05.2010 - 12.2011

Network Administrator/System Engineer

Magrabi Retail
03.2005 - 04.2010

BSc. - Science

Ain Shams University
09.1993 - 06.1997
Mostafa Mabrouk