- PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)ManagerAugust 2024 - Today (9 months)Dubai - United Arab EmiratesCustomer: Arab National BankManager - Advisory Involved in CSF and CFF implementation, incident response planning and management, vulnerability assessment, threat modeling, process optimization activities. Performed threat assessment activities involving identifying IoC, VAPT, completed and compiled the assessment of 170+ assessment units and calculated the residual, inherent and control risk ratings along with recommendations. The assessment has been performed as per the regulator guidelines, with treatment plan for non-compliance. Tools like SAS AML solution and Visa VRM are used for ensuring regulatory and PCI DSS compliance.
- Nexus GroupSenior Cyber Security ManagerDecember 2021 - July 2024 (2 years and 7 months)Dubai - United Arab EmiratesCustomers: Etisalat, Mobily, Saudi Electricity Company, Central Bank of Oman Senior Cyber Security Manager Represented Nexus in the region from Aug 2021, worked as the trusted risk and Cyber security advisor for their customers involved in the implementation of enterprise wide cyber security programs, compliance activities, VA assessment, development of various risk mitigation controls, handle new feature-requests, involve in technical deployments of the solutions, patch deployments, performing security evaluations, kubernetes upgrade and change management activities. Involved in strengthening the cyber security posture, incident management, cloud security, network and application security, audits etc.
- UBS Group AGIT Security ConsultantMay 2020 - November 2021 (1 year and 6 months)Consultant for UBS IAM and mobile authentication solutions, offering L3 support, onboarding and monitoring of system logs, sanity testing, database cleanup scripting, solution integration with APM tool for infra, app, and DB performance analysis and fine-tuning, vault integration for password management, involved in change and configuration management process, setting up of security alert rules, migration of applications from on-prem to Azure etc.
- Bachelor of TechnologyMahatma Gandhi University2000Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication