Nasir Siddiqui (A-Ciso, Cissp, Cism) Email & Phone Number

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

As Sr. Security Incident Responder help coordinate, report, and respond to cyberincidents impacting Avalara's client’s products, services, and enterprise infrastructure.Respond to security incidents and escalations, coordinating a cohesive response involving multiple teams across organization.Perform sensitive security investigations consistent with industry standards with regards to computer and network forensics services.Perform phishing, spam, malware, layer 7, or forensic analysis as part of the incident response and management process.Providing security engineering solutions and support during customer-facing incidents, proactively working to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future.Identifying and recommending solutions that improve or expand organization’s incident response capabilities.Characterize suspicious adversarial activities and identify indicators or compromise (IOCs) from a variety of technologies, including antivirus, IDS, SIEM, WAF, etc.Provide tactical security intel coordination focusing on information sharing and strategic partnerships within the organization.

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

Major responsibilities include serving as administrator for the hospital’s network security. Coordinating security network support responsibilities for assigned systems with technical staff, other hospital departments and outside agencies. Designing, implementing and monitoring compliance with information security policies and procedures. Providing highly responsible and complex administrative support to the leadership of the Information Systems Department and Division and as well as other Administrative Division Heads.Monitoring and Securing critical network components such as Routers, Switches, Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Servers (Domain controllers, Active Directory, Exchange etc.) for threat vectors. Auditing Security Policies on Active Directory for robustness and compliance with the defined metrics. Ensuring compliance with regulatory standards such as PCI and HIPAA for both data on move and data at rest.

San Jose Ca

Responsible for Corporate network Operations and Management, comprising of 4 data centers as well as remote offices and offshore facilities, managing the operations of the data centers, routers, switches and firewalls configurations and management. Provisioning, commissioning and monitoring of WAN circuits including ATM, DS-3 and DS-1 circuits.Setup and operation of Site-to-Site IPSec and end-user VPN connections for remote and offshore partners & remote users.Involved in networks integration and consolidation after Covad’s merger with Megapath and Speakeasy, covering approximately 20 data centers connecting through ATM and MPLS Cloud.Responsible for physical and logical security design to protect the core and the perimeter net

Managed Data Center in Las Vegas setup as the Primary site for a DR setup (sites connected through redundant 100 Mbps Metropolitan Ethernet links), processing in excess of 500k Credit Card transactions daily usingServer farm of HP Proliant DL/BL class servers using RHEL AS and ES, Windows 20xx server OS with heavy emphasis on virtualization using VMware ESXWide array of Networking Hardware from Cisco, Juniper, CitrixWAN Network of DS3/DS1 circuits, FR cloud, ISDN PRI/BRI and POTS DBU Strong understanding and experience of working with Network Management Applications & SNMP based monitoring, underlying data flows for Cisco, Juniper, Linux and Windows devices.Successfully fulfilled the requirements of PCI-DSS audit requirements for the last 5 years.

Worked as Network/Systems Administrator to setup, maintain and operate the company LAN and WAN network. LAN Network of comprised of MS servers Windows 2000 AS, MS Exchange 2000, SQL 2000 in a cluster arrangement and Windows 2000 professional workstations. WAN network of Cisco routers and T1, Frame Relay and ISDN links. Successful conversion of processor from Total Systems to First Data Corporation including network connectivity and application install on about 50 user workstations. Handled LAN, WAN troubleshooting, optimizations and PC Desktop support for approximately 50 users. System Administrator of Lucent Merlin Legend phone and Partner voice mail system. Responsible for Access control and office security.

Responsible for design, operation and maintenance of company LAN and WAN network of Windows 2000 / NT 4.0 and Linux operating systems, Compaq servers, Netopia and Cisco Routers and switches. Installation and support of MS-Exchange 2000/5.5 server and mail services. Installation and support of Windows 2000/NT 4.0 and Linux servers and Windows 2000/NT 4.0 workstations, standard productivity applications e.g. Microsoft Office and Visio; Developed and implemented the standard operating procedures for various network operations. Responsible for provisioning of and maintaining DDS, T-1, Frac. T-1 and FR circuits

One of the largest ISPs in Pakistan. Instrumental in launch of Internet Access and other value added services for the company and establishing PoPs in Karachi, Lahore & Islamabad.Major responsibilities included Project Management including design of the Network, selection of the network components inclusive of Computing and Communications hardware & software, generation of RFQs, negotiating with the vendors.Procurement, installation, testing and integration of the network components. Interviewing and recommending hiring of Technical staff.

s first Internet Service Provider (ISP). As project manager was involved in the setup of the VSAT link to Singnet for Internet connectivity. Supervising technical staff for implementation and setting up systems and network. Setup of the Internet Access Services. Setup and administration of in house Novell Netware networks. Responsible for establishment of Operations and Customer support departments involving hiring & training of personnel. Supervision of Technical staff.

Involved in the Installation, Testing and Commissioning of Alcatel OCB 283 Subscriber, Tandem and Transit digital switching systems including switching, transmission and power plant equipment installation and testing for PTT. Integration of the installed switches with existing PTT network and software / hardware up gradation of the installed switches. Involved in the installation of more than a million subscriber lines. Site & staff management and liaison with the PTT staff during installation.

Started professional career as design engineer with ICS Control Systems, a company involved in the areas of CAD/CAM and Industrial automation. Major responsibilities included design and development of digital hardware including single board computers for different Industrial applications. Also involved in the setup of a CAD/CAM center for a major industrial concern. Gained extensive design experience including digital design, schematics & PCB layout, EPROM, PAL and PGA programming, Assembly language programming and working with microprocessors and different digital and analog integrated circuitsOPERATIONS & MANAGEMENT SKILLSPlanning & designing workflows and Implementation of standard operating procedures.Design and implementation of standard technical and customer support procedures.Selection, hiring & training of Technical staff.Setup & Establishment of Operations, Customer support and Technical support departments.Generation of RFQs for projects and equipment.Selection and procurement of different network components.

B.S, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Hsc, Physics, Chemistry, Maths