Mirza Azfar Baig Email & Phone Number

Dubai, AE

Greater New York City, NY, US

As a Virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO), I provide strategic leadership and guidance in cybersecurity to ensure alignment with business objectives and regulatory requirements. I develop and implement comprehensive risk management strategies, design and oversee robust security architectures, and ensure compliance with industry standards such.

In my role as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), I have led my organization's cyber security efforts and successfully implemented a wide range of security initiatives. Notably, I established a highly effective Cyber Security Consulting domain and securing long-term projects with top clients in industries such as Telecom, Insurance, BPO, and System.

Fornebu, NO

• Drafting the Cyber Security strategy for Shared Services along with security program.
• Formulating the Cyber Security roadmap to augment the security strategy and overall Technology& Strategy targets.
• Participating and Conducting Security Risk Assessment of Infrastructure, Applications and Integrations and recommend mitigation plan to achieve the target state.
• Working as an Advisor to infrastructure team for designing the architecture on Defendable Security to protect the organization crown jewels.
• Optimization of Secure network setup and EUC hardening on CIS benchmark.
• Patch & Vulnerability Management and application of compensating controls until the final remediation applied.

Fornebu, NO

• Performed the role of E2E Manager to roll out the collection of IT Security projects from planning till close-out. Managed the vendors and teams simultaneously for better control and efficient project management.
• Planning, Designing and implementation of IT Security policies & Processes (Network, Infrastructure, DB, End User Computing etc). Monitoring the compliance of policies and recommendation of corrective actions.
• Designing of Enterprise Security Architecture based on SABSA framework. Identifying the contextual and conceptual points through effective interviewing and mapping those with objective to design effective KPI’s and.
• Designing and Planning of Cisco ISE with Authentication over Radius and TACACS for all users and devices.
• Enforced endpoint compliance by providing comprehensive client provisioning measures and assessing the device posture for all endpoints that access the network, including 802.1X environments.
• Developed and implemented Security Policies, Procedures in line with international standards i.e. CIS, ISO 27001 (ISMS) and ISO 20000 (ITSM), business demands, business risks and senior management directives and.

Fornebu, NO

* Working experience on Cisco Firewalls and infrastructure Core and Access Routers and Switches.* Prepared future transport network strategies, architecture development and network roadmaps for capacity building and strategic objective.* Auditing of Firewall access rules and implementing the controls to protect the environment.* Configuring the IPS/IDS for.

Islamabad, Punjab, PK

• Lead the ISO27001:2005 implementation, performed gap analysis and document the relevant controls to bridge the gaps.
• Plan, design and implement the Log Management solution and implement SIEM for SOC.
• Made all IS policies and enforce them through the Operations team also performed governance with regular audits.
• Performed a security impact analysis for each proposed change to the system’s configuration
• Reviewed work instructions and operational procedures for compliance with security requirements and policy Interpret security principles and requirements for technical teams
• Designed and implemented centralized service desk and its processes and practices.

Islamabad, Punjab, PK

Islamabad, Punjab, PK

CA