Ahmad Alhassan, Chief Information Security Officer

Ahmad Alhassan

Chief Information Security Officer

Fintech

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Technology
Experience
12 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :12 years, 6 Months

Chief Information Security Officer at Fintech
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since August 2022

• Ensure compliance with industry regulations and best practices. (SAMA framework, NCA National Cybersecurity Authority standards).

• Risk management identifying and assessing security risks, conducting risk analyses, and developing risk mitigation strategies.

• Creation and implementation of strategies for compliance, regulatory and legal considerations.

• Industry involvement participation in professional organizations, and conferences.

• Effectively communicate complex security concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Team building and training.

• Incident response, investigation, and emediation.

• Vendor Management.

• Sourcing the necessary security controls to drive strategy, and negotiating contracts.

IT Security Team Manager at Confidential
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • March 2015 to August 2022

IT Cyber Security management and consultancy to scale and enhance security guard against threats dealing with policies, procedures, awareness, and IR. Utilizing technologies like intrusion detection, EDR, IDS/IPS, SIEM, vulnerability assessment, Mail gateway, Web gateway firewall, proxy, and antivirus tools.

• Support in managing the development, implementation and updating of the IT governance model, policies and procedures.

• Conduct organization analysis exercises to identify strategies and technical solutions that may be required to successfully implement business strategies.

• Familiarity with cybersecurity and forensic security systems, tools, projects.

• Mitigate vulnerability by analyzing historical threats, addressing risks/gaps/ violations, and implementing improved protocols aligning with best practices.

• Lead several efforts that successfully elevated security efficiency.

• Lead initiation and planning tasks such as budget RFI, and RFP for cyber projects.

• Mapping security control to NCA, HIMS, ISO27001, and INFRAM framework.

Experience with:

Cybereason | Draktrace | Vectra | Symantec management SEPM | SMG | ATP | EDR | Nessus | Fireeye NX/EX | Carbon Black | AlienVault (USM) | F5 WAF | LogRhythm | ManagEengine | Bluecoat | OpenDNS | VPN Juniper | Fortinet | Splunk | ZAP | Fiddler | Acunetix | Nmap | Loki scanner | Hex | Metasploit | Autopsy | Foremost..

IT Senior Analysis at Alawwal Bank
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2014 to September 2014

IT services and project management.

Coordinates with IT service managers to deliver, and maintain business services.

Problem management: investigate IT problems and root cause.

Upgrade planning, and deployment (SCCM).

Leading Windows 7 migration project kingdom wide, handle software compatibilities complex issues.

Management of DHCP and active directory (AD).

Data Recovery HDD, SSD, and Flash drives.

Make number of procedural documentation to enhanced workflow.

Participate in several development projects.

Service Desk Support Specialist at Aawwal Bank
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • July 2007 to June 2008

• Incident management.

• Administrate and maintained servers.

• Technical support for Operating systems, Applications, & Networks (installing, configuration, & troubleshooting).

Tadawul Technical Support at Al Rajhi Bank
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • September 2006 to July 2007

Tadawul website & SMS system technical support.

Translate technical issues related to investment platform (Web, SMS) to the development team.

Analyzing java issues, troubleshooting compatibility issues related to web-system in different browsers app.

Digital communications engineer at AwalNet (ISP)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • July 2005 to November 2005

Support for DSL issues, (router/modem/wireless) (installing, configuration, upgrading firmware, & troubleshooting).

Maintain the lines split analogue and digital data.

Administrative Volunteer at King Khalid Military Academy
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • March 2005 to July 2005

PC's Maintenance (installing OP, Network Configuration, Software installing, and upgrade hardware).

Network installation access points (AP). Manage sharing folders (organize permissions, and management).

Automate Incident creation & resolution.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Technology
  • at Edith Cowan University
  • June 2013

Courses: System and database design, Data communications, Programming, Information systems, Computer security, Operating systems, System analysis, Computer fundamentals, Knowledge and project management, Project Methods and Professionalism, Communicating in an IT Environment, Applied Communications, Information Retrieval and Document Management, Interactive Web Development, Markup Languages, Information Security, Knowledge Computing, Information Policies. Graduate Project (Data Forensic) Analysis of Remnant Data on USB Flash Storage Devices. Accreditation by the Australian Computer Society (ACS)

Diploma, Networks Technician
  • at New Horizons
  • May 2006

Design and install well-functioning computer networks, connections and cabling. Perform troubleshooting to system failures and identify bottlenecks to ensure long term efficiency of network. Inspect LAN infrastructure and fix minor or major problems/bugs. Test and configure software and maintain and repair hardware and peripheral devices.

Specialties & Skills

Problem Solving
Cyber Security
Problem Analysis
Network Building
Consultancy Services
Managment
Forensic and Security
Cyber security tools
NETWORKING
TROUBLESHOOTING
POLICY ANALYSIS
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Searcher
Detail Oriented
Analytical

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Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

CISM (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2021
CEH (Certificate)