Yaser Aljohani,  Cybersecurity and Defense Center Manager

Yaser Aljohani

Cybersecurity and Defense Center Manager

Jeddah Airports Company ( JEDCO)

Lieu
Arabie Saoudite - Jeddah
Éducation
Master, Information Security
Expérience
13 years, 0 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :13 years, 0 Mois

Cybersecurity and Defense Center Manager à Jeddah Airports Company ( JEDCO)
  • Arabie Saoudite - Jeddah
  • Je travaille ici depuis août 2023

• Manage the SOC team and function for all L1 Monitoring, L2 Analysis, and L3 Incident Response and Digital Forensics 24/7/365 for all IT infrastructure and related third party
• Manage the cybersecurity operations team of the daily tasks and requests
• Alignment between SOC and cybersecurity operations teams for any security incidents to meet KPI, SLA and ensure business continuity and disaster recovery plans
• Report any security incident to all concerned teams and stakeholders for all needed actions and impact remediations
• Daily/ Monthly/ Annual SOC reports to top management and related concerned departments
• Threat Intelligence alignment with SOC function and cybersecurity operations
• Developing SOPs and playbooks for all security incidents and operations
• Implementing, testing, and validation all SEIM and security controls use cases in a daily basis
• Manage all security controls for the daily operations, projects, maintenance and support
• Propose, build, and develop RFP for any required IT security systems
• Comply with Saudi National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA) controls and all related government and aviation regulations

SOC/Information Security Team Leader à Yanbu Aramco Sinopec Refining (Yasref)
  • Arabie Saoudite - Yanbu
  • novembre 2020 à septembre 2023

• Manage the Information Security Ops team
• Manage the Information Security Ops Projects
• Manage the Security Operations Center “SOC” team
• Conduct Daily/Weekly and Monthly meetings with the SOC team
• Report the Information Security Posture and Improvement to the Management
• Review SEIM use cases, Correlations Rules, Playbooks, and security alerts/incidents constantly with the SOC team
• SOC Alignments with IT Security Ops, System, Network, Applications teams, and related parties
• SEIM Integration with Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence Tools /Feeds
• Monitor Saudi CERT, NCA Alerts /Notifications and take actions accordingly
• Integrate all log sources with SEIM system
• Propose Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response “SAOR” system in the SOC Department
• Develop Information Security Maturity Level
• Propose Information Security Technologies and Controls
• Hardening and fine tuning for all security systems
• Documentation of all Information Security Systems
• Conduct Information Security Awareness
• Adherence with Information Security Policies and Procedures

OT/ICS Cybersecurity Specialist à Saudi Air Navigation Services
  • Arabie Saoudite - Jeddah
  • janvier 2020 à décembre 2020

• IT/OT Technical Assessment Stream Lead
• Information Security Strategy and Governance
• SOC Development
• Conduct Asset Inventory and Management for all OT Infrastructure
• IT/OT Network Architecture review
• IT/OT Configurations Review
• IT/OT Compromise Assessment
• Information Security Projects (Deploying FortiGate NGFWs, FortiNAC)
• Administration of NGFWs (Paloalto, Fortinet)
• Administration of Endpoint Security (Kaspersky )

Director of the Information Security and Governance Department à King Abdullah Medical City (KAMC), Information Security and Governance Dept.
  • Arabie Saoudite - La Mecque
  • février 2015 à janvier 2020

• Develop and implement new Systems Security Administration solutions to meet business requirements
• Implement and support the rollout of critical Systems Security Administration systems to support all impacted services, on both a long term and tactical (immediate term) level
• Ensure that Security Administration systems are fully documented and performing as required for internal and customer SLA guarantees and expectations by means of specific metrics and measurements
• Provide technical Systems Security Administration expertise to Product Development and its support to develop new Systems Security Administration product support and enhance existing Systems Security Administration product sets
• Provide 2nd level troubleshooting tasks and support all End user requests under their departmental mandate

• Responsible to support all assigned Systems Security Administration projects within departmental ICT services
• Responsible documenting and reporting status to line manager
• Fulfill Systems Security Administration departmental Service Level Agreement (SLA) ICT services
• Responsible for fulfilling the assigned Systems Security Administration departmental ICT Services or projects to meet KAMC users requirements
• Responsible and team lead new Systems Security Administration technology implementations to improve ICT services
• Monitor Saudi, U.S. CERT and National Cyber Security Center NCSC in MOI announcements/Alerts and apply all Security recommendations immediately.
• Prepare a security awareness program for employees constantly
• Attend and adhere to ICT meeting decisions and attend appointed meetings and committees
• Adhere to any task deemed necessary, which falls within the scope of job
• Comply with all ICT departmental policies and procedures

IT Internal Auditor à Saudi Electricity Company
  • Arabie Saoudite - Jeddah
  • février 2014 à février 2015

• Evaluates and provides reasonable assurance that risk management, control, and governance systems are functioning as intended and will enable the organizations objectives and goals to be met
• Reports risk management issues and internal controls deficiencies identified directly to the audit committee and provides recommendations for improving the organizations operations, in terms of both efficient and effective performance
• Evaluates information security and associated risk exposures
• Evaluates regulatory compliance program with consultation from legal counsel
• Evaluates the organizations readiness in case of business interruption
• Maintains open communication with management and the audit committee
• Teams with other internal and external resources as appropriate
• Engages in continuous education and staff development
• Provides support to the companys anti-fraud program

Information Security Risk Analyst à Lewis University
  • Etats Unis - Illinois
  • janvier 2012 à décembre 2013

• Conduction Information Security Risk Assessment and Management
• Conducting Asset Inventory and Management
• Conducting Gap Analysis for different Information Security Frameworks such as, ISO 27001, NSIT CSF, and COBIT
• Propose the Countermeasures plan for Risks
• Propose Business Continuity and Disaster Recover Plans
• Vulnerability assessment and Management
• Conducting Information Security Gap Analysis for Security Controls
• Propose Information Security Technologies for different layers (Network, Applications, Systems, End users ...etc.)
Yaser Aljohani Resume

Information Technology Engineer à National Power Construction Company (NPCC), Information Technology Departmen
  • Arabie Saoudite - Médine
  • août 2009 à avril 2010

• Provide advice, assistance and training relevant to the installation, functioning and ongoing maintenance of equipment or software
• Conducting risk assessment and management for different critical operations and departments within the company.
• Suggesting risk countermeasures for the risks that have been detected which threaten the company business and operations.
• Provide contingency plan that prepare company to be able to respond for unexpected incidents/events.
• Assist coworkers with completing work assignments and provided coverage for absent personnel
• Maintain company computers on a weekly basis
• Install Operating System and Software applications as needed
• Provide Technical Support throughout the company
• Prepare technology for meetings.
• Order computer parts to ensure computers stayed online.

Éducation

Master, Information Security
  • à Lewis University
  • décembre 2024
Diplôme, English
  • à University Of Illinois At Chicago
  • août 2024
Baccalauréat, Computer Science
  • à Taibah University
  • mai 2024

Specialties & Skills

ISO 27001
IT Governance
Risk Assessment
Information Security
Cyber Security
MANAGEMENT
GOVERNANCE
SECURITY AWARENESS
AUTOMATION
SECURITY POLICIES
BUSINESS CONTINUITY
COMMUNICATIONS
INFRASTRUCTURE
PRODUCT SUPPORT
RISK MANAGEMENT

Langues

Arabe
Langue Maternelle
Anglais
Expert

Adhésions

The Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA)
  • Member
  • January 2012
The SANS Institute
  • Member
  • January 2012
InfoSec Institute
  • Member
  • January 2012
TechTarget (Search Security)
  • Member
  • January 2012
Offensive Security
  • Member
  • January 2012
Hemaya Group_Saudi Group for Information Assurance
  • Member
  • January 2012
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Member
  • January 2012
Security4Arabs
  • Member
  • January 2013

Formation et Diplômes

Certified Data Protection Specialist (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
September 2013
AccessData Certified Examiner (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
March 2013
Executive Leadership Professional Development Certificate (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
April 2013
Project Management Professional Development Certificate (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
April 2013

Loisirs

  • Traveling
    United States of America, Turkey, France, Netherland , Oman , Jordan, United Arab of Emirates , Bahrain
  • Self Study and Continuous Learning
    MCSA, CCNA (R&S), ITIL, ECH V10, Security +, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, ISO 27005 Risk Manager, ISO 22301 Lead Implementer_Business Continuity Management System, COBIT