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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

IT Management

Infrastructure Management

System Administration

Business Continuity Planning

Penetration Testing

InfoSec Program Management

Change Management

IT Operations

Strategy Planning

Troubleshooting

Technical Support

Cross Functional Coordination

Team Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Information System Security Management

Governance, Risk and Compliance

Business Impact Assessments

Vulnerability analysis

Time management

Leadership

Program development

Problem-solving

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