Cyber Security Consultant
Redington Gulf
Total years of experience :14 years, 9 Months
• Pre-Sales Cyber Security Engineer with primary responsibilities for technical sales cycle support of RSA’s suite of Advanced Security Operation Center (ASOC) solutions, Identity & Access Management Suite and Symantec’s Advanced Threat Protection solutions.
• I am instrumental in getting the “Technical Win” via POCs, demo and solutioning for the entire RSA and Symantec solution suite which includes:
o RSA NetWitness for SIEM & Network Forensics;
o RSA NetWitness EndPoint for endpoint anomalous behavior monitoring;
o Symantec’s Advanced Threat Protection
o RSA SecurID (Multi Factor Authentication)
o RSA SecurID Access (Single Sign On and Identity Assurance)
o RSA LifeCycle & Governance (Identity Management & Governance)
• Provide pre-sales Cyber-threats analysis for sales opportunities to customers and partners. Including installations, troubleshooting and training of RSA NetWitness Suite, RSA SecurID Suite (RSA Identity & Access Management) & Symantec Advanced Threat Protection
• Maintain a broad-level of knowledge of industry trends and how Cyber Threat products add value
• Act as an interface between the Sales organization and technical staff to resolve outstanding issues
• Perform product demonstrations and presentations at customer and partner sites, company road show’s and events
• Solution designing, doing presentations, demonstrations, webinars, workshops, whiteboards, conducting evaluations, preparing proposals, responding to RFx’s, Tenders, etc for RSA NetWitness Suite and the RSA SecurID Suite including the RSA SecurID Access (Two-factor Authentication & Single Sign-On), RSA Lifecycle and Governance (Identity Management and Governance) & Symantec Advanced Threat Protection.
• Deliver product knowledge around the RSA solutions to customers, channel partners and technology partners
• Support the local sales team
• Develop customer facing product and solution demonstrations.
Worked on IBM QRadar products such as QRadar SIEM, QVM, QFlow and QRM.
Worked on CA Single Sign-On (formerly CA SiteMinder)
Worked on CA Shared Account Manager
Responsible for Pre-Sales and Post Sales activities for Network Monitoring, Single Sign On, Two Factor Authentication and Shared Account Management Solutions
Projects:
o IBM QRadar deployment at a leading Bank of Pakistan
o CA Technologies Shared Account Manager Proof of Concept at a leading Bank of Pakistan
Built a SOC using RSA envision SIEM Solution
Web application vulnerability assessments and penetration testing
Network based vulnerability assessment and penetration testing
IT Security Assessment using CIS, DISA and NSA benchmarks
Designing, doing presentations, demonstrations, conducting evaluations, preparing proposals, presentations, responding to RFPs, Tenders, etc. for Security solutions
Deployment and support of McAfee DLP Endpoint and Kaspersky Antivirus solution
Worked on Security management solutions of McAfee and IBM the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator and IBM Site protector
Deployment of McAfee Endpoint Encryption for Files and Folders and Full Disk Encryption
Provide POC of Encase Forensics
Provide support for Kaspersky Antivirus solution
Having proven track record of delivering outcome based projects to expectation having major expertise on
o RSA enVision
o McAfee DLP
o RSA DLP
o FortiGate
o Barracuda Email Security
o Barracuda Web Security
o Cisco Routers and Switches
o Kaspersky Security Center and Endpoint Control
Responsible for maintaining and monitoring the network infrastructure (Routers, Switches, SIEM and Kaspersky Antivirus)
• Monitoring and troubleshooting High Performance Computing Clusters
o Fifty nodes RedHat Enterprise Linux Cluster
o Eighteen nodes OpenSuse Linux Cluster
• Managed, Installed, administered and diagnosed multiple platforms including:
o Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Active Directory)
o Linux (RedHat Enterprise Linux and OpenSuse)
o VMware ESX Server
• Provide security measurements using WireShark, Cisco ASA 5520, Cisco ACS 4.2, OpenVPN, pfSense, Kaspersky Antivirus, SSH, MRTG and Active Directory
• Troubleshooting issues related to specialized softwares in regard to the HPC Cluster and Microsoft Domain environment
• Responsible for maintaining and monitoring security for our computing environments and perimeter security devices (Firewalls Cisco ASA 5520, Anti-Virus Kaspersky)
• Responsible for creating, modifying, configuring, troubleshooting and monitoring of Cisco ASA 5520 NATs, Subnets, IPSec Tunnels, and VPNs.
• Responsible for maintaining computer lab, equipment and management of 4 assistant's.
• Monitor account access, password changes and application support
• Designing, doing presentations, demonstrations, conducting evaluations, preparing proposals, presentations, responding to RFPs, Tenders, etc for Security solutions
• Identify different type of Layer 2 & 3 threats and attacks; as well as configure same layer devices (switches/FW) to prevent the attacks & secure network.
• Configure Cisco ACS, RADIUS, TACACS+, Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), and 802.1x protocols
• Designed, managed, installed, administered and diagnosed multiple platforms including:
o Cisco ASA 5500 series
o Microsoft Windows 2003
o Microsoft Active Directory
o Cisco Integrated Services Routers 2800 Series
o Ether Switches
o Cisco Catalyst 2900, 3500 & 3700.
• Web threat mitigation utilizing Websense
• Facilitating LAN to LAN and client to LAN VPN connectivity utilizing Cisco ASA IPSEC/SSL appliances, and IOS routers
• Administering AAA services using RSA ACE, Microsoft AD and Cisco ACS backend authentication stores
• Experience configuring Cisco IOS routers/multi-layer switches and CatOS switches
• Developed and maintained educational requirements for the professional growth of the staff as well as for the growth of the company
Worked in the following areas:
• Console Environment of 3COM Switches 7700 and 4228G
• Console Environment of Cisco Pix Firewall 515E.
• Console Environment of Router Cisco2600
• ISA Server
MSc Internet Computer and System Security Achieved: Merit Dissertation: The dissertation was on conducting a research on best practices for risk assessments in Information Technology environment.
BS. Computer Engineering, Achieved: First Division Final Year Project: Implemented a Network Infrastructure for the MIS department of Civil Aviation Authority, Karachi, Pakistan.