Zain Samkari
Riyadh,Saudi
Summary
Enthusiastic to contribute to team success through hard work and dedication, attention to detail, and excellent organizational skills. Eager to gain the necessary skills, knowledge, and experience that will guide me to achieve my tasks with right technique in order to enrich my career.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Cybersecurity Operation Specialist
Ministry of Culture
Riyadh
05.2024 - Current
- Lead a team for the daily and operation tasks.
- Manage different cybersecurity projects.
- Manage vulnerability assessment unit.
- Administer and monitor vulnerability assessment tool to identify and mitigate security risks.
- Manage and administrate Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solution and data classification tool to ensure sensitive information protection.
- Administer and monitor the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solution to detect and respond to endpoint threats.
- Manage and analyze threat intelligence tools to enhance proactive cybersecurity defences.
- Monitor and analyze National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA) alerts and SIEM alerts to detect potential threats.
- Lead incident response efforts, conducting investigations and implementing remediation strategies.
- Oversee the email gateway security solution
Cybersecurity Operation Specialist
Ministry of Culture
Riyadh
02.2023 - 04.2024
- Implementation of vulnerability assessment tool to identify security weaknesses.
- Support the management of Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solution and data classification tool to protect sensitive data.
- Monitor and help maintain the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solution to detect and mitigate endpoint threats.
- Assist in managing threat intelligence tool to analyze potential cyber threats.
- Track and analyze National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA) alerts and SIEM alerts for potential security incidents.
- Participate in incident response activities, conducting initial investigations and supporting remediation efforts.
- Support the email security gateway implementation
Network Engineer Specialist
Salam Telecom Company
Riyadh
01.2021 - 01.2023
- Responsible for activating new service such as (L3VPN,
L2VPN, BBI and BDI) over the network, with different
media (MW-infinite, Cambridge, GPON), then follow up
with customer to ensure the service is working fine. - Working on network and services migration projects.
- Evaluate customer links performance during
activations and confirm link budget parameters are
within accepted range. - Configuring BGP with different scenarios like
active/backup through local preference or Configuring
IPsec scenarios: site-to-site, Multi site-to-site and
DMVPN. - Troubleshoot and resolve IT corporate customer
technical and networking issues. - Prepare provisioning department weekly, monthly,
and yearly reports. - Updating Database system with all customers services
information. - Terminate, suspend the services over the network.
- Downgrade and upgrade the link speed.
- Relocating the services or changing the media based on
the customer needs
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Communication
International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
Malaysia 01.2016 - 09.2020
Skills
- Splunk
- CrowdStrike
- DLP Forcepoint
- Classification Boldon James
- Nessus Tenable
- Proofpoint Email Gateway, TAP, TRAP, ITM
- ThreatQ, Recorded Future and Resecurity
- Familiar with configuration over router and switch (Huawei or Cisco)
- Wireshark
- Packet Tracer
Certification
- CompTIA Security+
- Cisco Certified Networking Professional Enterprise (CCNP)
- Cisco Certified Specialist- Enterprise Core
- Cisco Certified Specialist- Service Provider Core
- Cisco Certified Specialist- Enterprise SD-WAN Implemntation
- Cisco Certified Specialist- Enterprise Design
- Cisco Certified Specialist- Enterprise Advanced Infrastructure Implementation
- PCEP-Certified Entry Level Python Programmer
Courses
- SEC504: Hacker Tools, Techniques and Incident Handling
- ISO 27001 Implementer
- CompTIA Network+
- CompTIA A+
- Project Operation Management
- Technology Entrepreneurship
Timeline
Senior Cybersecurity Operation Specialist
Ministry of Culture
05.2024 - Current
Cybersecurity Operation Specialist
Ministry of Culture
02.2023 - 04.2024
Network Engineer Specialist
Salam Telecom Company
01.2021 - 01.2023
Bachelor of Engineering - Communication
International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
01.2016 - 09.2020
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