Fadi Freij, Senior Security Consultant

Fadi Freij

Senior Security Consultant

ESolutions Netcure

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
18 years, 10 Months

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Total years of experience :18 years, 10 Months

Senior Security Consultant at ESolutions Netcure
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since September 2014

Working as a senior security consultant to deliver Symantec security solutions and IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform.

Senior IT Security Officer at Emerging Market Payment Group
  • Jordan - Amman
  • June 2014 to September 2014

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• Maintaining security compliance programs; PCI DSS, PCI Card production physical
security, PCI card production logical security, and internal auditing
• Security assessment for current systems and new projects
• Preparing and conducting security awareness training programs for staff
• Managing and preparing security polices and procedures
• Preparing and arranging Trustwave external\internal network and applicationpenetration testing and external/internal vulnerability scanning
• Evaluating new security products before purchasing.
• Managing and administration on daily basis our security solutions: this includes
administrating, upgrading, configuring, and monitoring the below solutions:
• Symantec PGP Gateway Email Encryption
• Symantec PGP Universal server for Whole Desk Encryption
• Symantec Messaging Gateway
• Symantec Endpoint Protection
• Symantec Mail Security for Exchange
• Cisco Sourcefire Network based Intrusion Prevention system
• Microsoft Certificate Authority server for SSL, MPKI certificates
• F5 Application Security Manager Web Application Firewall
• Trustwave Security Information and Event Management SIEM
• Nessus internal Venerability scanning
• Balabit Shell Control Box - Privilege Identity Monitoring !

Information Security Consultant at PRO TECHnology Company
  • Jordan - Amman
  • January 2013 to June 2014

Currently, I am working as Information Security Consultant, supporting our clients to achieve Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS compliance. And team leader for our security department that manage a lot of security products like encryption, SIEM, Web filtering, Endpoint protection, WAF, MPKI SSL, and mail archiving.

My main responsibilities are:

• Assist customers to generate PCI scoping documents including Network diagrams, Dataflow diagrams, asset inventory and compiling the Executive summary document.
• Assist in determine PCI scope and the required segmentation to reduce PCI scope
• Polices and Procedures collection and mapping to PCI DSS and assist in generating missing documents.
• Project Management and follow up with concerned parties from client side to accomplish their tasks and answer their PCI questions and any technical inquires related to PCI requirements
• PCI evidence collection
• Provide onsite support and guidance in implementing PCI DSS controls
• Working closely with the assigned QSA and client to assist customer in PCI DSS compliance.
• Providing consultation and second line of guidance and support for our security team in their implementation and technical support.

Senior Systems Engineer at PRO TECHnology Company
  • Jordan - Amman
  • August 2008 to December 2012

Senior Systems Engineer
PRO TECHnology Company, Amman - Jordan

I have worked as a senior system engineer and was responsible for a lot of Infrastructure, Endpoint Management, Archiving and Security solutions within PROTECH solutions portfolio, plus working as a senior System administrator for my company network.

My main responsibilities were providing solutions consultation, designing, presentation, implementation, and technical support for the following solutions:

Infrastructure solutions:
- MS Domian: Active Directory 2003 & 2008, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, ISA, TMG, and WSUS.
- MS Exchange: 2003/2007/2010, and basic knowledge in MS SQL 2005/2008/2012
- OS Clients: Install, manage, configure, and administer Windows operating systems 2003/2008/XP/Vista/7/8, and MAC.
- Virtualiztion: VMware & Hyper-v Virtualization (Basic)
- Implementing and configuring the corporate LAN environment and network printers

Endpoint Management & Monitoring solutions:
- Endpoint Management: ALTIRIS Client Management Suite & Server Management Suite
- SIEM: Trustwave Security and Event Management SEIM
- Monitoring: SolarWinds & ManageEngine Monitoring Solutions.
- Symantec Service & Asset Suite, Symantec ServiceDesk, Helpdesk solution
- PCAnywhere Solution, Leibsoft User Manager Pro, CimTrak File Integrity Monitoring
- Faronics Deep Freeze and Insight

Backup & Archiving solutions:
- Archiving: Symantec Enterprise Vault for Microsoft Exchange, File server, and SharePoint
- System Recovery: Backup Exec System Recovery

Security & Encryption solutions:
- PCI Compliance
- SSL Certificate: VeriSign SSL & MPKI certificates.
- Encryption: PGP Whole disk Encryption & PGP Messaging Gateway
- Endpoint Protection: Symantec Endpoint protection &
- App & Device Control: Lumension Endpoint Management and Security Suite
- Anti Spam: Symantec Mail Security for Exchange & Domino, Symantec Messaging Gateway
- Web Filtering: WebMarshal Secure Web Gateway, ContentKeeper Web Filtering Appliance
- Web Application Firewall: Trustwave Web Application Firewall
- Symantec Control Compliance Suite (Basic), Trustwave Network Access Control (Basic), Symantec Data Loss Prevention (Basic), and Dell SonicWall Network Security

Plus, I am responsible for the following tasks:

- Provide full presales support to the sales team and customers inlcding presentations, demonstrations, and training sessions on the portfolio of products within my scope to our internal team and customers.
- Responding to RFP, RFQ and tenders: preparing technical studies that include solution overview, system features, design, requirements, scope of work, implementation plan and Project documentation.
- Playing a key role in evaluating new products

System Engineer at Smart Systems
  • United Arab Emirates
  • July 2006 to August 2008

July/2006 - July 2008
System Engineer,
Smart Systems, Abu Dhabi - UAE

• Working as a resident technical support engineer in Ministry of Finance and
Industry, and Preventive Medical Department -Abu Dhabi

• Support engineer for E-Dirham projects; working along with MOFI and supporting all remote sites in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Al Ain (Including EPOS
devices, and E-Dirham Vending Machines in UAE)

• Support engineer for Time & Attendance and ID Card Projects; installing,
Configuring, and maintaining Time & Attendance system (CMI Terminal
Readers) . And ID card systems (NISCA ID Card printers, Zebra ID Card
printers)

Technical Support Engineer at New Electronic Systems
  • Jordan - Amman
  • June 2005 to July 2006

Working as technical support engineer, supporting customer IT environments including hardware and software.

Working as a resident technical support engineer in Ministry of Finance and
Industry, and Preventive Medical Department -Abu Dhabi

• Support engineer for E-Dirham projects; working along with MOFI and supporting all remote sites in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Al Ain (Including EPOS
devices, and E-Dirham Vending Machines in UAE)

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Applied Science University
  • June 2005

• B.Sc. Computer Science (Average: good) Applied Science University -Amman • Jordanian Tawjihi, Zarqa - Jordan

Specialties & Skills

Technical Presales
PCI DSS
Altiris
Enterprise Vault
ALTIRIS Symantec Client/Server Management Suite
Symantec Enterprise Vault - ARCHIVING
BACKUP EXEC System Recovery Symantec
Symantec ServiceDesk \\ Helpdesk
Microsoft EXCHANGE 2003/2007/2010
Microsoft Active Directory 2003/2008
PGP Whole Disk Encryption
SOLARWINDS Monitoring Products
PGP Messaging Gateway
Symantec Enterprise Vault
Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange
VeriSign SSL Certificates
TrustWave WebMarshal Secure Web Gateway
VeriSign MPKI
ContentKeeper Web Gateway
Liebsoft User Manager Pro
Symantec Endpoint Protection
Lumension Endpoint Management
Faronics Deep Freez and Insight Products
Microsoft SQL 2000/ 2005/ 2008/ 2012
Install, Manage, and Configure Windows Operating Systems
Trustwave Web Application Firewall
Microsoft Hyper-v
Trustwave Secure Web Gateway
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards PCI DSS Consultancy
Trustwave Log Management SIEM
Certified Information Systems Security Professional CISSP
PCI Compliance
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning
Symantec Validation and ID protection
Symantec Command Line
IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform SIEM
Symantec Data Loss Prevention

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Intermediate

Memberships

Microsoft
  • MCP
  • June 2006
Symantec
  • Symantec Technical Specialist
  • September 2008
International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)²
  • Associate of (ISC)²
  • May 2014

Training and Certifications

Certified Information Systems Security Professional CISSP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999
Microsoft Exchange 2010 Certified MCITP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2011
Valid Until:
April 2011
Symantec Enterprise Vault 10 Technical Certified (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2012
Valid Until:
January 2012
Altiris Client Management Sutie 7.1 Certified (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2011
Valid Until:
February 2011
(Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2006
Valid Until:
February 2006
Symantec PGP Universal Server 3.2 Technical Certified (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2012
Valid Until:
October 2012
Symantec Enterprise Vault 9 Certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2011
Valid Until:
February 2011
(Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2011
Valid Until:
March 2011
MCSE Certified, MCP Certified (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2008
Valid Until:
June 2008
Symantec Enterprise Vault 8 STS Certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2009
Valid Until:
March 2009
PMP Certificate In Progress (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2012
Valid Until:
August 2012
Symantec Management Platform 7.1 Certified (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2011
Valid Until:
February 2011
ITIL Certified (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2011
Valid Until:
August 2011

Hobbies

  • Learning new Security technologies by browsing Internet
  • Keep updated about security threats