Meshal Alzahrani

Information Security Officer at Samba Financial Group

• Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
• My current job since February 2013

• Change Requests Management and Compliance officer (Auditing).
• Participation in a quarterly Risk Control Self Assessment (RCSA) in coordination with the Risk Management Group (RMG).
• Systems Security Review.
• Email Security Administrator. (IronMail, Mcafee)
• Network Access Control System (NAC) Administrator. (Clear Pass, Aruba)
• Intrusion Detection System (IDS) Administrator. (Site Protector, IBM)
• Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) Administrator. (HP Tipping Point, HP)
• Firewall (Cisco ASA, FortiGate and Juniper) Administrator.
• Access Control System (ACS) Administrator. (Secure ACS, Cisco)
However, administration includes the following activities:
• Understanding the network types, components, and possible threats.
• Managing, maintaining, and operating of the above security solutions.
• Installing patches and updates and upgrading whenever a new version is stable.
• Designing a firewall policy to protect the components of a network from malicious people - hackers or employees.
• Updating the users and their info on the Access Control System as the users join or leave.
• Applying, modifying, and removing IPS filters and features to protect the network and systems against malware, malicious web sites, and other security violations and try to maintain a balance between productivity and security.
• In case of a breach of security, investigating the causes, providing for any loss arising out of the breach, and taking approaches so that such breaches do not happen again.
• Modifying the network security for a better protection of the network.
• Checking the condition of different components in the network (routers, firewalls, IPSs, computers, wires etc) to avoid possible network crash.
• Working hard and close with the Command Center (24/7) in troubleshooting and solving issues and problems that users and customers may have.