Mohammed Riyaz Pasha Pasha, Senior Cyber security Analyst

Mohammed Riyaz Pasha Pasha

Senior Cyber security Analyst

Help AG Middle East

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Computer and Network Security
Experience
8 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :8 years, 9 Months

Senior Cyber security Analyst at Help AG Middle East
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since July 2015

• Performing Real-Time Monitoring, Investigation, and Analysis of Security Events from Multiple log sources such as IDS/IPS, Firewalls, Switches, VPNs and other security threat data sources; for wide range of customers such as governments, banking, and private companies.
• Creating, analysing, fine-tuning, and disposing use-cases based on the dynamic operation of SOC.
• Analysis of log files, including forensic analysis of system resource access.
• Regularly Monitoring and doing health check-up on customers Splunk including use-cases, Licensing and Console Performance related Issues.
• Assigning appropriate severity and priority (based on the impact) of the on-going incidents, advising recommendations and remediation’s actions, acting as L2 within the SOC.
• Implementation of Security intelligence and advisories, searching for latest threats and vulnerability to patch them and integrate related feeds which includes CnC URLs, Domains hashes to SIEM.
• Creating documents for technical reference, Identifying Customer reporting requirements; translate requirements into SIEM technical Specifications and implement SIEM changes in creating reports for daily, weekly and monthly, meeting the SLA and timeframe.
• Perform remediation’s services, on-site forensic analysis, and VA/PT testing with respect to customer contracts agreement and incidents severities.
• Assist customers with periodic risk-based reviews of the security of information and information system controls.
• Perform vulnerability assessment for MSS customers and do scoping of critical infrastructure, run the vulnerability scan, create monthly vulnerability reports & coordinate with customers to close vulnerability.
• Creating and following detailed SOP’s (Security Operational Procedures) to appropriately analyse, escalate, and assist in remediation of critical information security incidents.
• Maintaining a high degree of awareness of current threat landscape; affording analysis on customers’ attack surfaces, and procedures of threat modelling analysis.
• Hands-on different AV products, analysing the malwares codes and advising the customer with its reversing-engineering techniques, to prevent and detect any malicious code propagation.
• Participating in knowledge sharing with other Analysts and writing technical articles for Internal Knowledge Bases; participating in Blue/Read teams exercises on continual basis.

Education

Master's degree, Computer and Network Security
  • at Middlesex University
  • July 2011
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Computer Networks
  • at Visveswaraya Technological University
  • July 2009

Specialties & Skills

Anti phishing
Vulnerability Assessment
Security Information Event Management SIEM
Incident Analysis
Cyber Security
Incident Monitoring and Analysis
Threat Intelligence
Documentaion of procedures and Policies
Vulnerability Assesment
Anti Phishing
Security Information and Event Management

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Kannada
Expert
Arabic
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Palo Alto Traps (Training)
Training Institute:
Palo Alto
Date Attended:
July 2018
ThreatQ (Training)
Training Institute:
ThreatQ
Date Attended:
March 2018
IBM Resilient (Training)
Training Institute:
IBM
Date Attended:
November 2017
Carbon Black certified Admin (Training)
Training Institute:
Carbon Black
Date Attended:
August 2017
Carbon Black certified analyst (Training)
Training Institute:
Carbon Black
Date Attended:
June 2017
Splunk certified Admin (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2015
Splunk certified Knowledge Manager (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2015
Certified Ethical Hacker (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2012
CCNA Security (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2009
CCNA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2009

Hobbies

  • Writing
  • Swimming
  • Cooking
  • Reading
  • Travelling