Haitham Yassen, IT Manager Security

Haitham Yassen

IT Manager Security

Bupa Arabia

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communications
Experience
17 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 6 Months

IT Manager Security at Bupa Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • My current job since August 2016

1. Research the latest information technology security trends.
2. Overseeing the operations of the enterprise's security solutions through management of the organization's security administrators
3. Monitor organization’s networks for security breaches and investigate violations when they occur.
4. Help to design, implement, and maintain the organization’s cybersecurity plan and security infrastructure
5. Develop and direct implementation of security standards and best practices for the organization.
6. Direct the installation and use of security tools (e.g., firewalls, data encryption, zero-day attack protection solution, SIEM), to protect sensitive information.
7. Recommend security enhancements to IT Management.
8. Help computer technicians, end users when they need to install or learn about new security products and/or procedures.
9. Ensure that IT security audits are conducted periodically or as needed (e.g., when a security breach occurs).

Tier III Senior Security Analyst at Saudi Systems
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2014 to August 2016


Provide technical Consultation and leadership to the enterprise for the information security
program
 Mentor and Collaborate with Tier II on Case Assessment.
 Guide and train Tier I in addition to training to Other Technical Groups.
 Perform Network forensic Analysis.
 Lead Security Team to assure Policy compliance
 Install and maintain security infrastructure, including IPS, Firewalls, IDS, log management,
Network Routers, Switches and security assessment systems.
 Present Case and investigation summary to management
 Assess threats, risks, and vulnerabilities from emerging security issues
 Draft enterprise security standards and guidelines for system configuration.
 Perform and create procedures for system security audits, penetration-tests, and vulnerability
assessments

Senior Network Security Engineer at Al-kaleej
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • June 2009 to July 2014


Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Provide Participation in the areas of information classification, risk assessment and
standardizing of role based permissions based on business and organizational needs.
 Provide Consultation in Network Security Designing of enterprise network.
 Work closely with other operations staff, engineering development and client services to
ensure Ministry of Interior’s services are secure and available 24 x 7, additionally includes:
 Working with System Administrators to ensure all servers have required security
baselines, maintain proper patch Management, anti-virus, and other threat
protection actions.
 Working with Network Engineers to assist in the installation, configuration, testing
and management of network devices and ensure overall system and network
security.
 Working with Application engineers and developers to ensure that all applications are
secure.

Install and maintain security infrastructure, including IPS, Firewalls, IDS, log management,
Network Routers, Switches and security assessment systems.

Security Hardening of Network Devices and Servers

Information Security Engineer at Appnetics-NSR
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2006 to May 2009

Responsible of preparing a security awareness program of Appnetics Staff.
Implementing security Controls for protecting the company's assets.
Implement and configure company's wireless LAN.
Administration of company's Network Equipment ( Switches, Routers, Firewall)
Monitoring and maintaining the different security controls.
Running Vulnerability scan
Security audit of the workstations, and enforcing the corporate policies.
Administrating company's security Controls ( VPN server, Corporate Antivirus, Proxy server, Network Scanner)
Administer and design of Public key Infrastructure.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communications
  • at Ahin Shams University
  • June 2006

B.Sc. Electrical Engineering Major: Electronics and Communications Grade: Good Graduation Project: Storage Area Network (SAN) (Bidding document and Simulation analysis). Grade: : Distinction

Specialties & Skills

Simulation
Administration
Supervising
Storage
Juniper Netscreen
Network Designing
CISCO Switches & Cisco ASA
Network Security -- CISSP
Whats Up Gold
Paloalto Firewall
Sonicwall Next Generations Firewall
HP Switches
Certified SonicWall Security Administrator CSSA
Cryptography
Paloalto

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Beginner

Memberships

ISC2
  • Security professional
  • August 2014

Training and Certifications

Certified Sonicwall security administrator (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2015
CCNP Security (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2011
CCNA Security (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2010
CISSP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2014
HP AIS (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2013
MCSE (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2010
Comptia Security Plus (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2013
Valid Until:
March 2017