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Heyam Omairan, Senior GRC Specialist

Heyam Omairan

Senior GRC Specialist·Saudi Dairy and Foodstuff Company (SADAFCO)

Saudi Arabia

Master's degree, Cybersecurity

Work experience

Total years of experience: 9 years, 11 months

Senior GRC Specialist

January 2024 - Present

Saudi Dairy and Foodstuff Company (SADAFCO)

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

January 2024 - Present

• Governance, risk, and compliance: Leveraged a comprehensive understanding of cybersecurity frameworks, including NCA ECC, CMA, ISO 27001, and NIST CSF. Develop, update, and maintain policies, procedures, and guidelines that align with SADAFCO's strategic objectives while adhering to applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards.
• Risk Assessments: Identify, evaluate, and analyze potential risks that could impact the organization’s operations, assets, and reputation. Keep up to date on industry trends, emerging risks, and regulatory changes to adjust risk management practices accordingly.
• User Awareness & Education: Develop and lead comprehensive security awareness and training programs to educate employees on information security best practices, policies, and procedures.
• Cybersecurity Audits: Oversee internal and external audit processes, collaborating with auditors to document controls and compliance measures, and manage audit findings and remediation efforts.
• Cybersecurity projects: Coordinate and collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute Cybersecurity projects effectively. Liaise with external vendors, service providers, and external consultants.
• Cybersecurity Innovation: Keep up with cybersecurity trends, recommending innovative approaches and technologies to strengthen the organization's resilience against advanced threats.

Company industry:
Food & Beverage Production
Job role:
Information Technology

Cybersecurity Specialist

January 2022 - December 2023

Saudi Diary and Foodstuff Company (SADAFCO)

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

January 2022 - December 2023

• Governance, Risk, and Compliance: Applied in-depth knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks (NCA ECC, CMA, ISO 27001, NIST CSF) to develop and maintain policies aligned with SADAFCO's goals and industry standards.
• Incident Response: Collects and analyses digital evidence and investigates cybersecurity incidents to derive useful information to mitigate system and network vulnerabilities as first responder.
• Vulnerability Assessment: Performs vulnerability assessments of systems and networks. Identifies where they deviate from acceptable configurations or applicable policies.
• Threat Management: Proactively searches for undetected threats in networks and systems, identifies their Indicators of Compromise (IOCs), and recommends mitigation plans.
• User Awareness & Training: designing and executing cybersecurity awareness initiatives, including training programs, workshops, and simulations, to enhance employees’ understanding of security protocols and reduce organizational risk.

Company industry:
Manufacturing
Job role:
Information Technology

IT Business Relationship Analyst

December 2018 - November 2022

Saudia Diary and Foodstuff Company

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

December 2018 - November 2022

- Liaise with clients and stakeholders to define project requirements, scope and objectives.
- Identify potential change, areas of improvements and recommend solutions that deliver value to stakeholders.
- Evaluate information gathered from multiple resources, decompose high level information into details.
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation (Business cases, project charters, BRDs...etc.)
- Act as the point of contact and communicate project status adequately to all participants.
- Monitor and track project's progress and handle any issue that arise.

Company industry:
FMCG
Job role:
Information Technology

National IT coordinator

January 2017 - November 2018

Saudia Diary & Foodstuff company

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

January 2017 - November 2018

1. Maintain and monitor the back-end of sales-system to ensure system's efficiency, avoid misuse/errors and solve problems accordingly.
2. Planning sales' journey plans, defining channels' promotions and applying customers' credits.

Company industry:
Food & Beverage Production
Job role:
Information Technology

Cooperative trainee

January 2016 - May 2016

EXSO Consultancy JLT

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

January 2016 - May 2016

Developed web application and back-end database for cab booking company

Company industry:
Business Consultancy Services
Job role:
Teaching and Academics

Education

Saudi Electronic University

May 2025

May 2025

Master's degree, Cybersecurity

Saudi Arabia

GPA (point): 3.7 out of 4

GPA (point): 3.7 out of 4

University of Business & Technology

May 2016

May 2016

Bachelor's degree, Management information System

Saudi Arabia

GPA (point): 4.83 out of 5

GPA (point): 4.83 out of 5

Skills

Time management

Expert

Interpersonal communication skills

Expert

Leadership

Expert

Incident Management

Expert

Security Awareness

Expert

Risk Management

Expert

Vulnerability Assessment

Expert

GRC

Expert

Cyber Security

Expert

Information Security

Expert

Process Modeling

Expert

Business analysis

Expert

Critical thinker

Expert

Team management

Expert

business process modeling

Expert

project planning

Expert

Incident Management

Expert

Security Awareness

Expert

Risk Management

Expert

Vulnerability Assessment

Expert

GRC

Expert

Cyber Security

Expert

Information Security

Expert

Process Modeling

Expert

Languages

Arabic

Expert

English

Expert

Training and Certifications

Certifications
ISO 31000 Lead Risk Manager
Sep 2024
ISO/IEC 27001 lead implementer
Apr 2023

Training
Cybersecurity Training by “AlexSta Cybersecurity” (Incident response, Detection & Analysis, threat
Saudia Dairy and Foodstuff Company (SADAFCO)
Mar 2022
Certified Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals SC-900T00-A
Microsoft
Microsoft Security Operations Analyst (SC-200)
Koenig Solutions FZ LLC
Nov 2021
Business Processes: Modeling, Simulation, Execution
MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses
Dec 2019
Data Science and Machine Learning
Scholarpro
Feb 2019