Mohamed Abdel Rahman, IS/IT Auditor

Mohamed Abdel Rahman

IS/IT Auditor

AOT

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Spacial math and computer
Experience
20 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :20 years, 10 Months

IS/IT Auditor at AOT
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since January 2011

Working as Information Systems and Security Auditor based on a many International and national Standards such as ISO 27001, ISO 2001, ISO 22301, ISO 31000, COBIT, and other Standards provided by KSA Governmental, and public Authorities, Plus performing a full security Assessment for most of our customers in different Sectors to help them implement a full Security program, Perform Risk Assessment, Business Impact Analysis, IT Governance, Monitoring and checking the effectiveness and efficiency of security Control.

Information Systems and Security Manager at AOT
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since January 2008

Working as Information Systems and Security Unit manager, ( about 15 member )
responsible for Building and operate a comprehensive data center mainly hosting a mission critical application such as "Order Management System for Brokerage Companies:" and many other financial application plus ERP systems for factories
Job Responsibilities:
Design and Implement a full Environment systems, network and Security of data center including Access Control, Network Security, Physical Security, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning, Risk Management, Operations Security, and support to Comply with TADAWUL Security Regulations, Compliance and Investigations )
Hardware Sizing Servers and Network Equipments)
Hardware Installation (Rack Design)
Eliminate any SPF “Single Point of Failure” for High availability .
Setup Linux ISCSI Storage for Oracle Database RAC
Setup Linux Network Load Balance
Setup Linux Firewall and IPS
applying system and network hardening
Develop the Operations and Maintenance Procedures
Develop Security Procedures and Policies
Develop the most required Documentation based on ITIL framework and ISO 20001 for ITSM such as
1- Change management
2- Configuration management
3- Patch management
4- Capacity management
5- Incident response plan
6- problem management
Build a DR site and develop the appropriate procedures.
Developing a full BCP/DRP based on BS 25999 and updated with ISO 22301
Start a process to implement Iso 27001 in our environment and to be accredited the two ISO Certificates 27001 and 22301
Building an alerting system “email and SMS gateway”
performing a troubleshooting and find the root cause for most of the problem.
providing our external customers with systems (mainly for Linux) and security support and recommendation,
performing security assessment and vulnerability scans
performing gap analysis for IT environment based on the most international Standard and best practices

Linux system Engineer at AOT
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • December 2006 to January 2008

Provide Linux based custom solutions to clients
Provide Linux support service
Provide Linux Clustering Solutions (High Availability, Load Balancing)
Provide Linux Based Storage Solution “based on ISCSI Technology”
Provide VoIP solutions based on the open source SoftPBX Asterisk
Building Data Centers serving Brokerage Companies. Based on Net
Technical responsibilities include problem identification, system architecture definition, hardware/ software specification and design.
Planning for deployment of open source software infrastructure
Migration planning, and System integration.
Providing Network Security Design and Assessment solutions.
Providing Redhat Enterprise Linux training

Linux Systems and Security Engineer at the french university in Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2005 to December 2006

Designing and Building UFE Secure infrastructure including Access Control for staff and Students, UFE DC physical Security design, Design of Network Security
Secure Mail system with postfix-cyrus-imap-ldap and integrated with MS active directory
Installing and admin for moodle (online education center)
Installing and admin Joomla (professional web design tool based on php and mysql )
Installing and admin Egroupware system (professional Group ware system )
Network security and monitoring using iptables, IDS, and others
Project management and planning
Server maintaining, backup and recovery solutions
Design and implementation for windows 2003 server Active Directory

Systems and Security Engineer at El obour for metallurgical Industries (Galva Metal )
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2003 to April 2005

Manage full IT jobs
Design and implementation for Galav Metal infrastructure including access control, telecommunication and network Security, physical security, BCP/DRP plan, Risk management for IT infrastructure
Building the network from scratch (cabling, servers and client)
Installation and administration of windows 2000 AD and Exchange 2000
Installation and administration of MS ISA server 2000
Technical support for many windows based software
Backup and recovery
Migration from windows
Client training staff and workers
Assistant in PLC’s integration and system monitoring

IT Consultant and Security Administrator (part time) at Egyptian Saudi Insurance Home (ESIH)
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2004 to March 2005

Design and implement full network infrastructure based on MS windows server 2003
Installation and administration of MS Exchange 2003
Installation and administration of MS ISA Server 2000
Installation and administration of windows server 2003 Active directory
assist in implementing an insurance application based on Oracle DB

Education

Bachelor's degree, Spacial math and computer
  • at Faculty of Science
  • May 2001

Specialties & Skills

Information Security Management
Data Center
IT Management
Information security
Networking
ISO 20001 Auditing
Data Center management
ISO 27001 Auditing
Security Operations Center
Oracle Solaris

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Memberships

ISACA
  • member
  • June 2010
ISC2
  • member/CISSP
  • January 2014

Training and Certifications

CISSP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999
CISA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2011
Valid Until:
December 2011
MCSE (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2002
Valid Until:
March 2003
Red Hat Certefied System Engineer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2004
Valid Until:
March 2004