Syed Fareed

• Supported secure web development practices in administrative systems.
• Assisted in technical operations and academic system support within KFUPM Administration Unit.
• Conducted cybersecurity research tasks, including vulnerability analysis and system evaluation.
• Applied software engineering and security principles across academic and institutional projects.
• Performed grading assistance and academic support tasks for technical coursework.

• Worked in OT environments (PLC/SCADA) with focus on security visibility, availability, and resilience.
• Reviewed network segmentation, secure remote access, and monitoring considerations relevant to SOC
investigations in critical infrastructure.
• Conducted a LoRaWAN security assessment, evaluating threat exposure, telemetry limitations, and risk
impact.

• Designed and deployed a distributed edge monitoring system for real-time water flow classification,
processing high-frequency telemetry and sensor logs at the edge.
• Developed anomaly detection logic to identify abnormal flow patterns, achieving 96% classification
accuracy across multiple flow states, applying concepts relevant to alert triage and behavioural detection.
• Performed root-cause analysis on anomalous system behaviour, documenting findings and implementing
remediation strategies to improve detection reliability and reduce false alarms by 25%.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams, communicating investigation results and risk impact clearly.

• Conducted hands-on research on network-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), focusing on alert
accuracy, scalability, and false-positive reduction, achieving 94% detection accuracy with a 32% reduction
in false positives.
• Investigated anomalous network behaviour using the Kitsune dataset, aligning with SOC alert validation
and threat detection use cases.
• Implemented ensemble-based detection approaches and analysed network telemetry to identify attack
patterns.