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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Provide specialized expertise to Fraud Protection projects.• Managing and Administrating the Group-IB Fraud Hunting Platform.• Prepare fraud activity reports and conduct research of malicious activity.• Support with fraud analysis using the Fraud Hunting Platform (FHP).• Risk Assessment Specialist with expertise in identifying and evaluating risks in new products within the banking industry. Skilled in applying the SAMA Counter Fraud Framework to assess potential vulnerabilities, ensure compliance, and protect against fraud. Known for delivering insights that enhance product security and regulatory alignment, enabling informed decision-making and strengthening customer trust. Detail-oriented, collaborative, and committed to safeguarding financial integrity through proactive risk management.

Cairo, Egypt

• Provide specialized expertise to incident response projects.• Proactive and reactive incident response duties.• Define strategies at security management level, interact with customers enterprise security teams and management.• Analyze data associated to a security incident, perform deep inspection of application, log, OS, disk, network level forensicanalysis for troubleshooting and researching events and alerts, Discover and identify its source, purpose, intent, and ifmalicious or abnormal, then escalate within the incident response procedures.• Advice on how to efficiently remediate vulnerabilities, manage IT risks and improve the overall cyber security posture andresiliency of the organization.• Participate in daily and ad hoc conference calls to manage quality assurance and documentation related tasks

Cairo, Egypt

• Conduct demos/proof of concept setups to convince the customer with the product to make the customer issue the PO• Implement installation process• Responsible for providing support service (after sales service) for customers who has active contracts• Gain educational levels to enable troubleshooting skills in order to handle advanced scenarios.• Develop low level design & as built manual to document installation activities & provide it to customer.• Report Lab /POC/installation activities visits internally/externally.[Quaitv Assurance)• Conduct technical/hands on training to customers• Sustain migration from legacy to new system without business interruption.

Cairo, Egypt

Tier 2 security incident handler & penetration tester functions of a purple ( Red + Blue) team within a security operation center (SOC) environment.I was responsible for incident handling, threat management, escalation management, vulnerability management, vulnerability exploitation & case management by analyzing, triaging, prioritizing, and investigating SIEM true-positive alerts.Provide reports on received offenses (False & True positives), incidents handling performance and compliance with SLAs, threat analysis and action plans as well as handover reports.Coach & Mentor SOC Tier Analysts, explain and guide them through both the systems & processes.Lead the shift, and/or Tier 1 SOC Analysts operations, by monitoring tasks queues, ensuring all tasks are assigned, accounted for, progressing within both OLA &SLA, handled properly, and closed with targets.

Cairo, Egypt

• Assist in deep investigation of alerts after junior analysts provide me with the initial report.• involves making hypotheses on the existence of potential threats• Implementing the required reports for the statistics of the security devices.• Discovering the security devices flaws according to its behavior and provide the concerned team the full report of the issues to fixit.

6Th Of October, Al Jizah, Egypt

- I was responsible for creating and enhancing rules of SIEM Appliance, upon the requirements of the environment.- I was responsible for helping businesses to comply with PCI DSS in SIEM soultion by generating rules and reports those required for the audit checklist.

6Th Of October, Al Jizah, Egypt

Monitoring events and security alerts:-Continuous improvement and optimizations in detection;-Adaptation of supervisory systems on the basis of a monitoring of personal and shared threats within the ITrust teams;-Investigation of identified security incidents;-Coordination to ensure the proper handling of these incidents-investigations;-Reporting of operational activity

Smartvillage, 6Th Of October

I was responsible for developing and confirming schedules for our season, preparing paperwork for events, organizing events (Catering-speakers-lightening),prepare a budget, decide on a time & place, set goals, leading my team to optimize the budget by searching for perfect quality with least price.

I was responsible for the website for the activity and the designs of the events that made by the activity. I havesmall portfolio of some designs like rollups and banners for the activity events.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree

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