Ankit Satsangi, Head of Cyber Security & Monitoring

Ankit Satsangi

Head of Cyber Security & Monitoring

Azizi Developments

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Bachelor's degree, Multimedia
Experience
10 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :10 years, 8 Months

Head of Cyber Security & Monitoring at Azizi Developments
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since October 2017

Ensuring Cyber Security protection as a core deliverable. Protection of the network, data centers, servers, assets and data. Setup internal Security Operations Center enabling detection, prevention and incident response. Enabled the Human Firewall (security awareness) with security campaigns.

Technical Presales Consultant at Credence Security
  • May 2016 to October 2016

Taking Technical lead on the Security Portfolio. Products I look at are in the domain of : -

Data Leakage Prevention, Fraud Management, Incident Response, Critical Communications and Digital Forensic Investigations.

Setup a Lab Environment for Attack and Ransomeware Exploitation.

Activities Include :

- Product Presentation / demonstration, Support with technical qualification.
- Provide answers to (technical) questions in a Request for Information or a Request for Proposal
- Build and provide custom demo’s, Provide first-line technical support of software evaluations and/or pilot projects
- Create and Deliver a Proof Of Concept (POC), ensuring they are successful
- Support customer events and workshops
- Create the Implementation plan and monitor the approval process
- Provide any technical input needed for proposals
- Be able to position and present all Credence Security product offerings
- Compare Credence Security product offering with products from other vendors from a technical point of view
- Liaise with local and global vendor support teams to ensure accurate and timely resolution of technical issues that kay arise during the pre-sales process
- Work together with our Channel Manager / Product Manager to provide enablement to our Channel Partners.

Cyber Security Consultant at Oxygen DMCC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2015 to May 2016

Lead on the complete Security Portfolio at Oxygen of which some Vendor names include - TrustWave, Certes Networks, Zimperium (Mobile Defense), Red Seal, Plixer, Ziften and a few others.

Launching attacks for demonstration purposes and suggesting remediation, presenting the portfolio for each product and delivering a presentations to end customers are some of the key job roles in this position at Oxygen.

Technical Presales - Security at Oxygen DMCC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • July 2014 to June 2015

- Demonstrate companies Security portfolio as a presentation talking about the trending threats and how to secure, also suggesting the best practices products suitable for their environment.

- Training the Customer End Staff for the product deployed from ground up

- Talk them through the Security posture of the product depending on their Environment.

- Proactively scopes the technical solution required to address
customer requirements, assesses customers’ met and unmet
needs, and recommends solutions that optimize value for
both the customer and the firm.

- Secures from customer technical staff commitments needed
to ensure a deal’s “technical close.”

- Opportunistically pursues additional business development
opportunities within customer firms.

-Collaborate with sales to ensure these opportunities a re effectively covered and advanced.

Technical Desktop Support at Souvenir Building Materials
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • October 2012 to October 2014

Manufacturer, Brand owners and distributors of safety and hardware products, \[3M & Vaultex\] operations in the entire Middle East and Africa.

Title: Technical Desktop Support
Roles and Responsibilities:

- Customer Service Activities: Provide strong customer service for internal IT teams as well as Business Partners. Work closely with the Server and Networking teams.

- Image Development Activities: Create, test and develop current Workstation images. Test, evaluate, and package software and applications for workstation distribution.

- Deployment Activities: Responsible for successful deployment and upgrades of workstations.

- Incident Management Activities: Serves as an escalation point for the Helpdesk and Desktop Support.

• Resolve Networking issues
• Troubleshooting printers
• Resolving employee computer’s issues
Achievements:
• Managed and provided complete desktop support.
• Secured IT hardware in the firm including computers, software.
Tools and Technologies:
ERP system, Tally, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows XP, 7, 8

IT Security Engineer at Securelink
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • October 2013 to January 2014

Incident Handling, working with SIEM Solutions, Penetration testing (Manual & Automated). Pentesting on Mobile Platforms too. Vulnerability Scanning.

- Incident Management Activities: Serves as an escalation point for the Helpdesk and Desktop Support.

- Identify security issues and risks, and develop mitigation plans.

- Evaluate and recommend new and emerging security products and technologies.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Multimedia
  • at Middlesex University , Dubai
  • July 2013

Bayt Tests

Computer Skills Test
Score 80%

Specialties & Skills

Penetration Testing
Vulnerability Scanning
Ethical Hacking
Troubleshooting
Vulnerability Assessment
Information Gathering
Ethical Hacking
Penetration Testing

Training and Certifications

CCNA (Training)
Training Institute:
Sitespower, Sharjah
Date Attended:
February 2014
A+ Hardware (Training)
Training Institute:
Netscope, Sharjah
Date Attended:
July 2007
Certified Ethical Hacker v8 (Training)
Training Institute:
Firebrand Institute, Dubai.
Date Attended:
October 2013
Duration:
60 hours
MCP ( Microsoft Certified Professional ) (Training)
Training Institute:
Netscope, Sharjah
Date Attended:
July 2007

Hobbies

  • Billiards
    Playing on a professional level and been trained by World Rank holder #24
  • Dance
    Professional Dancing (Saroj khan’s Academy). Love to groove, best way to stay fit as well.
  • Designing / Branding
    Freelance Graphic Designing on and off at times.