Security Engineer

Revision Date: July **nd, **** *

Ihssan Alkadi, Ph.d.

New Orleans, USA

Email ID: *******@*****.*** Contact no.: 225-***-**** Profile

Total experience: 13 Years 0 months DXC experience: 2 years 0 months Current Job Title: Senior Professional Information Security Engineer

Time in Current Role: 2 years 0 months

Visa/Work permit: US Citizen Validity Date of Visa/Work Permit: NA Willing to relocate: NO Willing to travel: Yes

100-word biography/profile presentation

Ihssan Alkadi joined DXC in 2019 in February 2019 after 25-year career in Academic Teaching and then 10 years in security. He has over a decade’s worth of knowledge in information-security. Mentored students on threat prevention and disaster recovery from cyber attacks. He taught proficiency in setting up perimeter of defense in traditional old networks and new cloud networks. He designed a prevention outline against possible future attacks by threats, breaches, viruses and malware Top Skills (Technical/Nontechnical skills)

• Cloud Security (2)

• Cloud Migration (1)

• Antiviruses (16)

• Antimalware (10)

• Cybersecurity (10 years)

• Detooling in Azure and AWS (1 year of experience) Key Roles Performed

• Removal of malware

• Removal of Viruses

• Help with Perimeter defense.

Certifications (Professional Activities, Certifications, and Training Attended)

• CloudU 2014

• Attended classes for AWS Cloud Practioner Essentials Professional Work Experience

DXC Technology February 2019-present

● Security Services Delivery Lead (SDL) July 2020 - present Revision Date: July 22nd, 2020 2

Ensure knowledge and implementation of security fundamentals, policies and standards ( Lead Security operational services.

Participate and promote new Security offerings to the account team and client Manage security service requests and custom reporting concerns to the SOC and offering teams Escalate and resolve Security Issues

Provide and promote continuous improvement strategies Maintain SLA delivery and reporting

Maintain an account security plan for the selected account(s) Manage and reports security incidents

Ensure Audit preparation, facilitation and remediation Manage Security Risk and Exception to standards management Multi-3rd party services interaction between the SOC, client contracted vendors &DXC 3rd party

● Pentester of web applications using Fiddler and Vega

● PCI Tools Audit Task

Encryption Management Review

● Cloud Azure Engineer:

Was a member of a team of a project for six month that Migrated 600+ VMs from another Company’s support over to DXC. It involved the following duties in Azure and AWS cloud support and maintenance: Check the health of the VMs (servers)

Perform Snapshot Backups

Check Internet accessibility on the VMs (servers)

Removed OMS agent in both Linux & Window VMs (Servers) – disconnect Detooling of servers both in AWS & Azure

Linux administration: Used putty and Linux commands and remote desktop software Removed McAfee on Windows Azure VMs (Servers)

Removed CA Nimsoft Monitoring on certain VMs (servers) Part of team Cloudops support and maintenance of VMs. Previous Relevant Work Experience

University of Maryland University College, Cyber security professor, August 2010-May 2017

• Taught Cybersecuirty online and security in general

• Made sure students installed Snort and could crack passwords and learn what is a strong password. Southeastern Louisiana Universtiy, Visiting Assistant professor, August 2010-May 2017

• Taught programming in Java and C++.

• Taught Cloud Computing and security

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Education background

Degree Qualification College/university Year attained BS Computer Science Southeastern LA Univ 1985

MS Computer Science LSU 1992

Ph.D. Computer Science LSU 1999

• Authored the first book on cyberspace and cloud computing security titled "A New Technical and Practical Approach on Securing Cyberspace and Cloud Computing", November 17, 2017, Journal of Computer Science Applications and Information Technology, https://symbiosisonlinepublishing.com/ebooks.php.

• tweets nationally on cybersecurity awareness https://cyberconnections.umuc.edu/author/ihssanalkadiumuc/

• Wrote “Security Issues Related to Cloud Applications in STEM Education, Cloud-Based STEM Education for Improved Learning,” with outcomes to be published by IGI Global (http://www.igi-global.com/chapter/assessing- security-with-regard-to-cloud-applicationsin-stem-education/144097).

• Spoke at the IEEE Aerospace Conference in Montana in 2015 and 2017 as well as at the IEEE Metrocon Conference in Lockheed Martin, Texas in 2013.

Languages

English – Excellent oral & written

Arabic – Excellent oral & written

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