Arwa Alhamad, Data & Cybersecurity Director

Arwa Alhamad

Data & Cybersecurity Director

Hevolution Foundation

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Diploma, Managment Acceleration Program
Experience
14 years, 0 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 0 Months

Data & Cybersecurity Director at Hevolution Foundation
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since January 2023
Cybersecurity Head at Sanabil Investments
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2021 to January 2024
Cybersecurity Enablement Director at Saudi Telecom Company - Stc
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2019 to August 2021
Cybersecurity Director at STC Pay
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • September 2018 to August 2019
Information security senior specialist at General entertainment authority
  • Saudi Arabia
  • November 2017 to March 2018
Chief Information Technology Risk Specialist at Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • February 2017 to November 2017
IT Risk Mangment Senior Specialist at Saudi Stock Exchange
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2015 to January 2017
Information Security Officer at Tadawul Saudi Stock Exchange
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2013 to January 2015

Responsibilities:
 Developing policies, procedures, and standards.
 ISO27001 Certification renewal.
 Conducting Risk Assessment for new projects.
 Security Awareness Program.

Analyst in the Technology Counsultation at Accenture
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • June 2012 to January 2013

Work with clients to optimize and modernize their portfolio of IT applications.
 Modernize and drive costs from complex multinational IT infrastructures.
 Help clients design next-generation IT architectures to meet their ever changing business needs.
 Identify client's vulnerabilities and design protection systems to safeguard their intellectual property.

Tutor/ Lab Assisstant at RMIT University
  • Australia
  • July 2011 to November 2011

Delivering tutorials and labs for the following cources:
COSC1300/1301 Web Servers and Web Technology
COSC2536/2537 Security in Computing
COSC2413/COSC2426 Web Programming

Service Deliver Specialist at SADAD Payment Ssytem
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2007 to August 2009

Achievements:
- Founding team member of the Service Delivery Department.
- Increased the number of subscribed banks and biller by 200% from 34 to approximitly103.
- Developed new policies and procedures such as Refund, Escalation, Intercept High Value Bills and Payments.
- Conducted a Service Support Survey.
- Conducting Quarter Observations Reports.
Responsibilities:
- Business Process Management:
o Implementing Incident & Problem Management
o Handling Escalations.
- Operation Governess & Giddiness:
o Streamline internal/external communications
o Developing /approving polices and procedure
- Account Management:
o Conducting Client meetings
o Conducting Client Trainings
- OLA & SLA Compliance:
o Issuing Client monthly Reports.
o Issuing Company Performance Report.
o Issuing Company Outage Report & Calculating Penalties for responsible Third-Party.

Education

Diploma, Managment Acceleration Program
  • at INSEAD
  • February 2019
Diploma, Strategy and Innovation
  • at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • October 2016
Master's degree, Computer Science / Security In Computing
  • at RMIT University
  • November 2011

Some Courses: -Computer and Internet Forensics -Information Security and Assurance -Information System Risk Management -Secure Programming Environments - Systems Architecture

Bachelor's degree, Managment Information System
  • at King Faisal University
  • April 2007

Specialties & Skills

Communication Skills
Presentation Skills
ISO 27001
Project Management
Security

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Memberships

PMI
  • Member
  • July 2013
ISACA
  • Member
  • October 2015
GIAC/SANS Advisory Board
  • Member
  • October 2015

Training and Certifications

GPEN (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2015
Valid Until:
October 2019
ISO27001 Lead Auditor (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2014
Valid Until:
October 2014
GSEC (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999
ITIL V3 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2013
Valid Until:
January 9999
PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2013
Valid Until:
January 9999
ISO27001 Lead Implementer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2014