Muhammad Attique, Information Security Consultant

Muhammad Attique

Information Security Consultant

EonIT

Location
Oman - Muscat
Education
Bachelor's degree, BS Computer Engineering
Experience
15 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 1 Months

Information Security Consultant at EonIT
  • Oman - Muscat
  • My current job since November 2015

- Revise and analyze IT operations and systems, hardware configurations, physical security and operating procedures across organization.
- Consult and comply with set controls, standards, policies and procedures while carrying out IT activities.
- Search technology and reduce risks in every information security segment.
- Suggest measures to improve IT related procedures, operations, processes and systems throughout organization and clients.
- Implement penetration testing along with ethical hacking.
- Suggest and execute latest and best IT technologies, strategies and policies to secure customer’s information assets.
- Implement security risk analysis along with Penetration Testing for current and new systems to find system weaknesses or disclosures.
- Recommend solutions for explaining risks and reducing exposure areas.
- Prepare security program plans and execute IT controls, processes, audit tools, interfaces and utilities for authentication.
- Perform as chief for audits and security aspects.
- Support and provide consultancy for audit compliance actions.
- Implement periodic, on-demand project audits plus vulnerability analysis.
- Determine compliance through user accounts, application usage, system, file and outside scans.
- Perform independently in team implementing security and privacy engagements.
- Review client networks and applications.

System Security / Network Engineer at Vizteck Solutions
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • May 2013 to November 2015

◘ Configured and administering Atlassian Jira, Jira Agile, Confluence and Bamboo. Nagios NMS, Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor, Cacti Graphing System and notifications
◘ Deployed and managing Apache SVN Server, Active Directory and Domain Controller, Microsoft TMG, Bacula Network backup Server, Acronis Backup/Restore for Server ver. 11.5,
Cron Jobs, Veem for Virtual Machines
◘ Implemented and managing OpenStack system for Cloud Computing and Data storage and monitoring/securing from zero-day vulnerabilities, threats and attacks
◘ Scheduled / on-demand penetration testing of web-products, mobile apps developed by programmers, Web-Servers, Database servers to find out 0-day vulnerabilities and resolve them
◘ Keeping up-to date Servers' Operating Systems and softwares installed with latest patches

Network / Security Administrator at National Telecommunication Corporation
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • November 2010 to April 2013

◘ Configured and administered Juniper IDP 800 and SRX 650 Firewalls, Switches: Juniper EX 2200, CISCO 3550/3560 Catalyst, Huawei Quidway S3000, CISCO PIX 525 Firewalls, Panda Gate Defender Integra 9000 Anti-Spam device
◘ Deployed and Managed Alien Vault OSSIM (SIEM) with add-ons: Snort, NAGIOS, Nessus and more
◘ Server virtualization in VMWare vSphere 5 and managing virtual hosts on Dell 2950, HP Prolient DL380G7, IBM x3650 Servers and IBM SAN Server with load balancing, RAID and High Availability
◘ Performing sophisticated penetration examinations for the purpose of ascertaining the technical weaknesses existing in the computer systems
◘ Identifying efficient measures of sustaining network security at a constant rate
◘ Deployed OpenVPN with SSH tunnel in ISP NTC for Remote Access to network with security, Zimbra E-Mail Server, Nagios NMS Server, Cacti Network Graphing System
◘ Deployed SugarCRM for ISP Customers Data Records, Trouble Ticketing and Support Services
◘ Hourly/Daily backup of Servers, Network devices configs and VMs by Bacula Backup Server, Veeam Availability Suite, Acronis Backup Suite

► Appreciation for deployment of Network Monitoring System (NMS) at ISP DataComm. NTC HQ.
▬ NMS implemented : NAGIOS Core
▬ Appreciation by: Mr. Muhammad Sarwar
Chief Engineer NTC HQ, Islamabad

Jr. Network Engineer (Lab. Tech.) at Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University
  • Pakistan - Rawalpindi
  • September 2009 to November 2010

◘ Configuring and Troubleshooting LAN/MAN
◘ Configured CISCO 3660 and Juniper M320 Routers, MS ISA Server for Security, MS Active Directory Domain, Zabbix network monitoring System with notification of integrated Splank tool
◘ Securing Network by Juniper NetScreen-5200 Firewall from vulnerabilities and attacks
◘ Assuring network availability at University Campuses, Hostels, Faculty Residence by configuring CISCO and other Wireless Access Points
◘ Configured Automated backups of all servers by Acronis True Image, Windows Shadow Copy and Norton Backup Suite

Support Engineer at Sofnix Pvt. Ltd. Islamabad
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • February 2009 to June 2009

◘ Installation, Maintenance, Administration of LAN infrastructure.
◘ Administration & Implementation of Windows 2003 Server / Active Directory.
◘ Maintain and update technical support document, IT report and policy.
◘ Keep clients PCs updated with Antivirus and latest OS patches with Thin Client.

Education

Bachelor's degree, BS Computer Engineering
  • at BUITEMS
  • December 2008

Received Appreciations on C++ Project and Final Project of CISCO 805 Series Serial Router Simulator from

Specialties & Skills

Penetration Testing
Network Security
System Administration
Information Security
Network Administration
Switches
Firewalls
Routers
Active Directory
Juniper SRX / IDP / NSM
Network Security
Juniper M Series Routers / EX Series Switches
MS Windows Server 2003 / 2008 / 2008 R2 / Azure / SBS / 2012 DC
BGP / MPLS WAN Protocols
Static Routing / Split horizen Technologies
Network Administration
CISCO ASA / PIX Firewalls
Checkpoint Security Devices
Servers Security
Servers / Network Devices Load Balancing
VMWare ESXi / Citrix Zen Server Virtualization
Linux / Unix (CentOS, FreeBSD, RHEL, Solaris, Suse & Ubuntu)
RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF & IS-IS (Dynamic Routing Protocols)
LAN / WAN / MAN Configuration & Troubleshooting
Cisco Switches
InfoSec
Pentesting by BackTrack and Network Sec Toolkit supported Tools
MetaSploit Framework
JIRA, Subversion, Bugzilla, GIT

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Training and Certifications

CCNP Security - SENSS (300-206) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2015
Valid Until:
June 2018
CCNA Security || CISCO ID CSCO11652452 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2012
Valid Until:
June 2012
CCNP Training (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2009
Valid Until:
February 2010
CCNA || CISCO ID CSCO11652452 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2009
Valid Until:
August 2009