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Abdussalam Bashir
Expert Information Security: Build information security from the ground up.
Plano, TX, United States
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Education:
Master's degree
Operation Research
New Mexico State University
Master's degree
Computer Science
Old Dominion University
Operation Research
New Mexico State University
Master's degree
Computer Science
Old Dominion University
Experience:
Key Responsibilities :
Manage the client side of the security operation center (SOC) including monitoring, reporting, threat analysis, and incident management.
Daily and weekly SOC report on threats and state of security.
Follow up and track cases using ServiceNow.
Insure the SOC performance meets the SLA.
2016 : Present
NTT DATA Services
Information Security Manager
Key Responsibilities :
Eliminated the software license waste and make sure access to licensed software is well controlled.
Troubleshoot and fixed the security database by analyzing the error data flow from different feeds.
Wrote several filters to manipulate data in Excel sheets using Visual Basic programs.
2015 : 2016
Mr. Cooper (Nationstar Mortgage)
Sr. IT Project Manager
Key Responsibilities :
IT risk assessment, analyst and risk mitigation.
Leads major risk evaluations and delivers results and recommendations to business areas and Technology management
Provides high value input into risk reports on highly complex issues
2014 : 2015
Navistar Enterprise Solutions (NES)
Information Security Risk Analyst (Contract)
Key Responsibilities :
Established the information security program from ground up.
In charge of network, application, and operations security.
Managed all aspects of information security at the bank
Implemented PCI compliance.
Managed a team of five information security professionals who were responsible for safeguarding the bank's business and mitigating potential risks to its computing environment, assets and intellectual property.
Planned the yearly security budget ranged from one to five million dollars.
Managed risk assessment and risk mitigation programs.
Ensure separation of duties of critical operations such as SWIFT operations to prevent fraud.
Developed and managed the implementation of information security policies, standards, guidelines and procedures to ensure the ongoing practice of security as a process within the bank.
Developed a framework for auditing and ensuring compliance with bank's security policies.
Respond to the audit report with proper remedies.
Created and managed the security awareness training program.
Successfully managed several security projects from start to completion on time and on budget.
Ensured operational efficiency was aligned with business requirements.
Conducted incident response for threats to the bank.
Ensure the backup site is up and running and the bank's operations could be restarted safely and reliably on the backup site (failover).
Ensured privileged accounts were monitored and the logs were saved.
2008 : 2014
Central Bank of Libya
Information Security Officer
Key Responsibilities :
Managed a team of five system administrators.
Managed two datacenters (main and the backup).
Installed and Configured PowerHA (HACMP) for many critical applications.
Wrote the complete documentations for hardware and software configurations for over 25 servers.
Hardening the servers including SSH solutions.
Installed and upgraded AIX on all the servers.
Troubleshoot hardware, software, and the networks connections.
Monitored systems performance, and resource utilization.
Performed backups and restores when needed.
Hardening all AIX servers.
Installed and administered Linux (Red hat and Ubuntu)
Wrote Korn Shell, Perl, AWK, and SED scripts to automate repetitive tasks.
2004 : 2008
Agathon Systems LTD
UNIX System Administrator/Manager
Manage the client side of the security operation center (SOC) including monitoring, reporting, threat analysis, and incident management.
Daily and weekly SOC report on threats and state of security.
Follow up and track cases using ServiceNow.
Insure the SOC performance meets the SLA.
2016 : Present
NTT DATA Services
Information Security Manager
Key Responsibilities :
Eliminated the software license waste and make sure access to licensed software is well controlled.
Troubleshoot and fixed the security database by analyzing the error data flow from different feeds.
Wrote several filters to manipulate data in Excel sheets using Visual Basic programs.
2015 : 2016
Mr. Cooper (Nationstar Mortgage)
Sr. IT Project Manager
Key Responsibilities :
IT risk assessment, analyst and risk mitigation.
Leads major risk evaluations and delivers results and recommendations to business areas and Technology management
Provides high value input into risk reports on highly complex issues
2014 : 2015
Navistar Enterprise Solutions (NES)
Information Security Risk Analyst (Contract)
Key Responsibilities :
Established the information security program from ground up.
In charge of network, application, and operations security.
Managed all aspects of information security at the bank
Implemented PCI compliance.
Managed a team of five information security professionals who were responsible for safeguarding the bank's business and mitigating potential risks to its computing environment, assets and intellectual property.
Planned the yearly security budget ranged from one to five million dollars.
Managed risk assessment and risk mitigation programs.
Ensure separation of duties of critical operations such as SWIFT operations to prevent fraud.
Developed and managed the implementation of information security policies, standards, guidelines and procedures to ensure the ongoing practice of security as a process within the bank.
Developed a framework for auditing and ensuring compliance with bank's security policies.
Respond to the audit report with proper remedies.
Created and managed the security awareness training program.
Successfully managed several security projects from start to completion on time and on budget.
Ensured operational efficiency was aligned with business requirements.
Conducted incident response for threats to the bank.
Ensure the backup site is up and running and the bank's operations could be restarted safely and reliably on the backup site (failover).
Ensured privileged accounts were monitored and the logs were saved.
2008 : 2014
Central Bank of Libya
Information Security Officer
Key Responsibilities :
Managed a team of five system administrators.
Managed two datacenters (main and the backup).
Installed and Configured PowerHA (HACMP) for many critical applications.
Wrote the complete documentations for hardware and software configurations for over 25 servers.
Hardening the servers including SSH solutions.
Installed and upgraded AIX on all the servers.
Troubleshoot hardware, software, and the networks connections.
Monitored systems performance, and resource utilization.
Performed backups and restores when needed.
Hardening all AIX servers.
Installed and administered Linux (Red hat and Ubuntu)
Wrote Korn Shell, Perl, AWK, and SED scripts to automate repetitive tasks.
2004 : 2008
Agathon Systems LTD
UNIX System Administrator/Manager
Company:
NTT DATA Services
Years of Experience:
25
Skills
Auditing, Business Continuity, CISA, Corporate Governance, Cybersecurity, Disaster Recovery, Information Security, Linux, Security Policy, Unix
About
Enterprise IT professional with expertise in defining organizational vision and direction, and delivering IT solutions for security controls, compliance, privacy, corporate governance, cybersecurity, and audit with hands on expert building information security program from the ground up, writing information security policy, auditing, managing security risks, securing systems, Unix/Linux expert, CISSP and CISA certified. Superior capacity to solve complex problems involving a wide variety of information systems, work independently on large-scale projects, and thrive under pressure in fast-pace environments while directing multiple projects from concept to implementation. Expert in business continuity and disaster recovery planning.
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