abdul razzaque, Cybersecurity Consultant

abdul razzaque

Cybersecurity Consultant

Detasad

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics & Communication Engineering
Experience
14 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 4 Months

Cybersecurity Consultant at Detasad
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since June 2023

• Lead & develop security solution architecture for customers.
• Understanding customer business needs and suggest cybersecurity solutions to align the cybersecurity initiatives with the business needs.
• Leading technical conversations with customers/partners to establish and maintain valuable relationships.
• Participate and lead discussions dealing with ideas, architectures, specifications, requirements, testing and design reviews.
• Design of right enterprise and solution security architectures for clients

Cybersecurity Consultant at Security Matterz
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • February 2022 to June 2023

Providing consultancy as well as professional services to customers in field of cybersecurity

Design of right enterprise and solution security architectures for clients

Governance, risk and compliance audit for MSSP services provided by company for several big customers

Good understanding of standards and regulations such as GDPR, NIST 800-53, ISMS27K, SAMA-CSF and NCA-ECC

Help clients identify security and privacy-related, legal or business risks and implement appropriate organizational and technical measures.

Multi-vendor and multi-technology implementation experience ranging from NGFW (Forcepoint, Palo Alto and Fortinet), NAC Solution (Cisco and Aruba), Proxy solutions (Forcepoint and Symantec), DLP (Forcepoint), Load Balancer and WAF from (F5) to name few.

Cybersecurity Consultant at IT Belt
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • February 2019 to January 2022

• Responsible for managing ITB internal network administration, implementation, expansion, governance and compliance with industry standards and regulations such as NCA, SAMA, NIST, ISO27K etc.
• Participating in various projects taking care of network and security part
• Manage multiple vendors providing facility maintenance and repair, cleaning, power installation and cabling.
• Support all existing and new hardware technology in data centers.
• Coordinate hardware installation projects.
• Working on Cisco routers and switches,

Network Security Engineer/Team Leader at Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • February 2016 to January 2019

• Managed NOC team of 14 members in technical aspects as well as ensuring adherence to NOC operations, procedures and SLA
• Provided technical support for troubleshooting technologies like MPLS, OSPF, BGP & Multicast.
• Managed company BYOD program, onboarding employee devices.
• Created standardized incident response program to outline immediate and consistent remediation of network incidents.
• Implemented necessary controls and procedures to protect information system assets from intentional or inadvertent modification, disclosure or destruction.

Network Engineer at Al Asila
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • November 2009 to January 2016

• Worked on site on behalf of Al Asila for Royal Saudi Air Forces Network Engineering and Communication Center
• Responsible for managing RSAF WAN network which was known as High-Speed Network that connects all airbases and radar sites together
• Configuration of Cisco switches (6500, 4500, 3750) on LAN side as per requirement
• Troubleshot and remediate network outages and performance problems

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics & Communication Engineering
  • at VTU
  • January 2024

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Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of Engineering: Electronics & Communication Engineering
  • at KBN College of Engineering
  • June 2007

Bayt Tests

English for Business Skills Test
Score 80%

Specialties & Skills

Access Control
Bluecoat
Routing and Switching
Network Security
Firewalls
Cybersecurity
Risk Assessment
NETWORK SECURITY
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
MANAGEMENT
Data Privacy
Cloud Security
Security Consultation
Security Assessment

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Intermediate
Urdu
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

PMP (Certificate)
CDPSE (Certificate)
CCSP (Certificate)
CISSP (Certificate)