Zayeem Alam, Consulting Manager

Zayeem Alam

Consulting Manager

PwC (A.F.Ferguson & Co. a member firm of PwC network)

Location
United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
Education
Bachelor's degree, Telecommunications Engineering
Experience
12 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :12 years, 1 Months

Consulting Manager at PwC (A.F.Ferguson & Co. a member firm of PwC network)
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • My current job since April 2012

I am responsible for conducting and managing the following assignments:

• Information and cyber security risk assessments using standards and frameworks like ISO 27001, 27005, NIST 800-30 and cyber security framework. To identify risks the organizations is prone too, along with their threats, vulnerabilities, severity and remedial actions action required to address the identified risks.

• Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing engagements for various clients using proven methodologies for conducting black box, grey box and white box penetration testing. To identify the potential weakness which may be exploited by a malicious user to gain access to the organization’s critical information / systems.

• Network security review to identify issues in network design and security misconfigurations of various devices which may be exploited by a malicious user to exploit networks.

• Development of policies, procedures and frameworks benchmarked to international standards like ISO 27001:2013. In order to streamline documentation, processes and controls.

I am also a people manager for 4 resources and act as guiding role for the career decisions and resolve any issue that arises during their daily routine jobs

I am also responsible for business and proposal development for the aforementioned line of services. I usually develop business by meeting with the C level management of any organization like CFO, CIO and CISO.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Telecommunications Engineering
  • at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
  • July 2008

Telecommunication engineering focused on the basics of telecommunication and networks involved in the basic infrastructure.

Specialties & Skills

IT Risk
Cyber Security
Information Security
ISO 27001
Excel VBA Programming
Client Negotiations
Delivering Presentations
Proposal Development
Vulnerability Assessment
Cyber Security
Information Security Risk Model

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

ISO 2001:2005 Lead Auditor (Training)
Training Institute:
SGS
Date Attended:
January 2009
Duration:
40 hours
Certified Ethical Hacker v6 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2010
Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2015
certified Information Security manager (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2011