Syed Waqas Zafar, Senior Information Security Analyst

Syed Waqas Zafar

Senior Information Security Analyst

Confidential Company

Location
Pakistan - Karachi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Accounting/Audit
Experience
17 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 6 Months

Senior Information Security Analyst at Confidential Company
  • United Arab Emirates - Ajman
  • My current job since September 2014

Responsibilities:
The person will support IT Control and Information Security processes of the organization.
• Management of Vendor Information Security Assessments
• Provide feedback to Clients on our IS compliance status as per their defined formats
• Support Internal Control unit develop tools for automating control processes
• Management of IT/IS Risk assessment process
• Management of User Entitlement Reviews
• Management of Internal Reviews and IT Audits
• Management of Information Security Administration activities and review
• Facilitate Information Security Training & Awareness activities
• Support CISO in filing and investigating Security Incidents
• Provide support to IT and Business units on control processes: Risk and Control Self-Assessment, Business continuity/Disaster recovery and Vendor Management

Senior IT Auditor at Ernst & Young Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • December 2012 to August 2014

o Control Assurance Services (Internal and External IT Audit)- involved in providing IT Internal Audit Services, IS Audit support
o Conduct IT General Controls review.
o Perform System and Internal Control Reviews of ERPs to identify weakness and make recommendations for improvements
o Application Control Testing of several ERPs such as (SAP, Oracle financials, Sidat hyder financials etc)
o Data Analysis of GL Data using EY Global Analytics Tool, Audit Analytics Module and EY Eagle.
o Development and Review IT security policies and procedures.
o Develop Proposals for several client in commercial banking sector.
o Audited Business Cycle Controls of Commercial Bank.
o Various aspects of internal audit including developing the annual IT audit plan,
o Development of Audit programs, execution of the audit program, creating audit working papers and review of working papers.
o Involved in Audit process review / improvement in accordance with EY Audit Methadology,
o Support financial audits conducted by external audit team from the IT perspective,
o Develop scope of work in coordination with the financial auditors.
o Follow-up of audit reports.
o Prepare formal written reports expressing an overall opinion on the function being reviewed, and providing value-added recommendations in accordance with Auditing standards and guidelines.
o Performed system and Internal control over Financial reporting and identify weaknesses and assess financial implications, plan and conduct closing meetings.
o Reviewed IT /business transformation, program and project delivery, design, architecture and solution design, information management, implementation, operations, and management of IT infrastructure
o Reviewed Process of Information systems security assessment, design, architecture, implementation
o management and reporting on several clients
o Conducted reviews of technical or security infrastructure of operating systems, databases or security tools, e.g., UNIX, Linux, Windows 2000 and NT, firewalls and IDS systems.
o Involved in security testing and techniques including network, operating and application system configuration review

Following are the few Clients that I have worked at
 Muller & Phipps Pakistan (Pvt.) Ltd.
 EFU General Insurance (Pvt) Ltd.
 Allianz EFU Health Insurance (Pvt) Ltd.
 Pak Libya Holding Company Pvt Ltd.
 Pak Brunei Investment Company Ltd.
 National Institutional Facilitation Technologies (Pvt.) Limited.
 Alfalah GHP Investment Management Pvt Ltd.
 TPL Trakker (Pvt) Ltd.
 First Women Bank (Pvt) Ltd.
 Tameer Micro finance Bank (Pvt) Ltd.
 Telenor Easy Paisa (Pvt) Ltd.

IT Asset Management & System Administrator at Ernst & Young Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • August 2007 to December 2012

o EY Global Asset Management tool deployment and management in EY Pakistan.
o Deployment and Management of Point sec Encryption Tool in EY Pakistan.
o Deployment and Management of Symantec Endpoint Security in EY Pakistan.
o Deployment and Management of Global Core Load set 4.0 in EY Pakistan.
o Deployment and Management of EY Global Analytical tool for Client Data Compilation Country Wide
o Up gradation and Management of Data Centre of EY Pakistan from MS 2003 servers to MS 2008 Servers Environment.
o Procurement of Information assets country wide and managed them.
o Managing and Maintaining Microsoft Internet Security Management Server 2006 & Treat management gateway 2010
o Troubleshooting and maintaining Lotus Notes servers and clients Country wide.
o Troubleshooting & Maintaining GAMX and Groove server
o Managing & Maintaining CISCO based networks at users end as well as server end.
o Daily Offsite backup on DR site.
o Responsible for network cleaning from virus, malwares using report generated.
o Provide day to day support for application deployment and system build process.
o Management of System Management Server (SMS)
o Security review and vulnerability testing of all client machines in EY Pakistan.
o Network Bandwidth Management of all offices in EY Pakistan.
o Implementation and management of EY IT Security Policy and Procedures.

Network Administrator at Chandna Corporation (Private) Limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • June 2006 to February 2007

Develop, design and maintain Microsoft based Network
Checking and maintaining Mdeamon mail server

Education

Bachelor's degree, Accounting/Audit
  • at University of Karachi
  • June 2013

Specialties & Skills

Group Collaboration
Teamwork
System Administration
Resource Management
Audit Support
System Administrator
Senior Risk & Assurance IT Auditor
Information Security Management
ISO 27001 ISMS
Internal Audit
IT Operations
Disaster Recovery
Threat & Vulnerability Management
IT Audit
External Audit
Risk Management
SSAE 16 Audit
Business Continuity

Languages

English
Intermediate

Memberships

ISACA
  • Professional Member
  • July 2013

Training and Certifications

Technical and Information Technology Advisor Course (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2011
Valid Until:
July 2011
Cisco Certified Network Associate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2006
Valid Until:
February 2007
Cisco Certified Network Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2007
Valid Until:
December 2007
PIX Firewall (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2007
Valid Until:
June 2007
Cisco Wireless Network Associate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2007
Valid Until:
March 2007
Effective Presentation Skills (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2011
Valid Until:
June 2011
Linux Server Administration SA1 & SA2 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2007
Valid Until:
August 2007
Cisco Voip (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2007
Valid Until:
April 2007
Microsoft Exchange 2003 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2007
Valid Until:
May 2007
Microsoft Certified System Engineer 2003 (MCSE) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2006
Valid Until:
November 2006

Hobbies

  • Reading History Books, Playing Cricket, Snooker and Deep Sea Fishing