Muhammad Amir, Managing Consultant - Information Security

Muhammad Amir

Managing Consultant - Information Security

NetSol Technologies Limited

Location
Pakistan - Lahore
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Sciences
Experience
20 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :20 years, 9 Months

Managing Consultant - Information Security at NetSol Technologies Limited
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • My current job since June 2010

Projects & Responsibilities:
• Project Manager for Enterprise Network Security Audit project - PMCL (Mobilink) Pakistan
• Identify security requirements and develop plan for securing information processing facilities
• Perform information security risk assessment using ISO 27005 guidelines and develop mitigation strategy
• Develop information security policies, procedures, guidelines and standards using International standards and best practices
• Investigation of security threats or attacks on information assets
• Conduct web application vulnerability assessment and penetration testing
• Conduct network vulnerability assessment and penetration testing
• Conduct Enterprise wide network security audits
• Designing solutions to preserve the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and resources
• Technical proposal writing in the areas of ISO 27001 (ISMS), ISO 27005 (IT risk management), ISO 20000 (ITSM), penetration testing and IT Security Audit/Assessment

Manager Operations Support at M Systems (Pvt.) Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • August 2003 to May 2010

Roles & Responsibilities:
• Design, implement, and administer security structures and appliances to support the information and data security needs of internal and external networks and systems
• Communicate network security exposures, misuse, etc. situations to management, and execute appropriate incident response procedures approved by the management
• Implementing information security, access control policies and procedures
• Implementing network security policy addressed server/client security issues and applied appropriate security patches and upgrades
• Installation, configuration, and administration of hardware and software systems that provide appropriate network security functionality
• Review operation logs and event console activity to identify potential security-related events, determine cause of such events, and recommend respective counter measures
• Configuration and administration of proxy and remote access solutions for different locations using Microsoft ISA 2006/2004/2000 Server and Microsoft TMG
• Network administration, VLAN, Access Control Lists and Switch configurations
• Creation and implementation of Active Directory/LDAP security policies for users/groups
• Creation and implementation of SPNEGO (SSO technology) with AIX and Windows Server 2003/2000
• Performing incident/problem resolution and related processes including route cause analysis
• Assisting in maintaining and testing business continuity/disaster recovery plans, processes and procedures necessary to recover services in the event of a declared disaster
• Contingency plan documentation for equipment/links/sites failure
• Administration of servers, storage and virtualization infrastructure VMware and MS Virtual Server
• Monitoring network devices/systems/applications using PRTG application
• Server administration of Redhat Linux, Windows 2008/2003/2000 Server, Sun Solaris Server & AIX Server

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Sciences
  • at Newport University
  • August 2004

Specialties & Skills

Gap Analysis
Security Audits
ISO 22301
ISO 27001
Consultancy Services
Enterprise Network Security Audits
ISO 22301
Information Security Risk Management using ISO 27005 Standard
Web Application Penetration Testing
Technical Configuration Review
ISO 27001
Network Penetration Testing

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Memberships

ISC2 - USA
  • Member
  • March 2010
ISACA Lahore Chapter
  • Member
  • November 2010

Training and Certifications

MCSE - Security (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2011
Valid Until:
January 9999
COBIT 5 Foundation (Training)
Training Institute:
SimpliLearn
Date Attended:
December 2013
Duration:
16 hours
ISO 27001 Auditor / Lead Auditor Training (Training)
Training Institute:
IRCA
Date Attended:
February 2015
Duration:
40 hours
CISM (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2011
Valid Until:
January 9999
CHFI (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2013
Valid Until:
January 9999
CEH (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2010
Valid Until:
January 9999
CISA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2011
Valid Until:
January 9999
CRISC (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2011
Valid Until:
January 9999
CISSP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2010
Valid Until:
January 9999