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London, England, Gb

• As a Direct Report to CIO, establishing InfoSec Strategy, Programme, and team, recruiting, mentoring and providing vision and direction for information security across the regional offices.• Leading security operations, event monitoring and incident response for a hybrid de-centralised environment cloud (Cloud security services Azure, Google Cloud, DevOps, EDR/XDR, VM, App VM, Vendors Security Assessment, and others) and on-premises.

Beirut, Clemenceau, Lb

* As a direct report to CEO collaborated with cross-functional teams, and peer executives in business security, elevating data / enterprise architecture security, data security analytics, security operations, and information risk management.* Directed critical IT and security implementation programmes through adoption of international standards, including ISO 27k, NIST, PCI, GDPR, Swift as well as resolution of functional misalignments.* Oversaw assessment, rollout, and monitoring of security systems, such as email/web filtering, EMM/MDM, DLP, SIEM, ID Management, and VM in addition with development of in-house security solutions.* Led highly successful business-critical IT and IT security projects ranging in size, value, and complexity. optimised information security within bank group comprised of 2,000+ employees.* Built and led top-performing InfoSec and Business Continuity multi-cultural team (15 members). IT Division (40 members)* Enhanced compliance with international information security standards (PCI, GDPR, SWIFT)* Optimised business continuity and resilience by driving excellence in security and business continuity programs across the organisation and international/local suppliers.* Coordinated development of new information architecture, reducing routine transactions time by 60%+ with smooth replacement of mainframe legacy systems with UNIX based ones.* Orchestrated successful adoption of Cloud / On-Premise security systems, one of the first in Lebanon and Middle East as well as developed SOC pre-requisite for cloud app selection.* Reduced email fraud incidents to zero as well as drastically slashed other types of email incidents by more than 50% with rollout of security awareness and compliance culture.* Delivered 40% cost savings through business reengineering, enabling growth of retail banking branch while centralising back-office operations.* Formulated and established cyber security Incident Response Plans (IRP).

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Computer Science

Sloan Masters In Leadership And Strategy, Business Administration And Management, General

Sloan Masters In Leadership And Strategy, Business Administration And Management, General

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science