Information Security Consultant

Curriculum Vitae

SYED FAIYAZ AHMAD

Present address:

2B/259, Ghaffar Manzil Ext

Jamia Nagar, Okhla, New Delhi –110025

Phone Number : 011-********

Mobile Number : 989-***-****

Email Address : um8x94@r.postjobfree.com

Brief Overview

• Working as a Team Developer (Information Security).

• Hardworking and creative with strong organizational, managerial, technical, communicative and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to handle challenging situations.

Professional Experience

Bank of America Continuum Solutions Pvt Ltd (Gurgaon, May 2009-Tilldate)

Working with this company as a Team Developer (Information Security)

Work Profile:

Presently involve in conducting vulnerability assessment for the products and applications in the bank network. Rate the existing flaw in the bank network depending upon the impact that vulnerability could have and finally getting it mitigated. Along with that actively working in application security assessment for Countrywide Finance (A subsidiary of Bank of America). Conduct technical security assessments for Oracle products, handle Oracle critical patch update process, coordinate in deploying the MS-SQL patch, daily monitoring of security logs and report analysis, handling virus alerts, exercising BCP test. Network compliance management, IDS/IPS management, SOX compliance policy procedure, conduct network based scanning through security scanners, monitoring and administration of web servers, proxy servers. Threat lifecycle reevaluation of vulnerabilities. Conduct penetration test for the applications deployed in the test environment. Monthly metrics management, meeting the SLA timeline on monitoring vulnerability and virus alerts, reporting. Contributing point of views in the organization’s business cases related to network protection. Working towards counter intelligence and cyber threat landscape analysis for Asia Pacific region.

Onsite Experience:

Location : Headquarter, Bank of America, Charlotte (NC), United States of America

Description :

The visit covered initial knowledge transfer, implementation and automation of Foundstone scanners, gathering the daily scan data of applications. Assessments on frequent vulnerabilities arising in various products in bank’s environment. Monitoring of Security event logs and analysis.

Appin Software Security Pvt Ltd (New Delhi, June 2008-October 2008)

Worked with this company as an Information Security Consultant. Key responsibility areas included providing security non-technical support and technical support on all the department's security programs and processes to client companies. This includes, but is

not limited to, leading projects, conducting technical security assessments, architecture and design of security solutions, daily monitoring of security logs and report analysis. Responsibility included were patch management of systems and network, managing firewalls, IDS/IPS, DNS. Risk-Based vulnerability assessment, remediation and network access protection.

Assignments:

Client 1 : Oberoi Group, New Delhi (September 2008-October 2008)

Position : Information Security/Network Security Consultant

Client 2 : Precision Electronics Limited, Noida (June 2008-August 2008)

Position : Information Security/Network Security Consultant

Description :

• Vulnerability assessment of network and intranet servers

• Implementation and monitoring of Intrusion Detection & Intrusion

Prevention System

• Monitoring of Security event Logs and analysis

• Gap analysis based upon company’s current policies

• Risk Management and Risk Assessment methods and metrics

• Identification of applicable controls from ISO 27001 Standard

• Writing and implementing security policies

• Security incident management and handling

• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Planning (BCP/DRP)

• Creation of management and technical report, patch management

• Recommendation for additional security measures

IBM Daksh (Gurgaon, October 2005-May 2008)

Joined this company as a Specialist Technical Support.Worked for the client “Intuit” a US based company. Provided first level support for problems related to software licensing, installation, upgradation and patch management.

Worked for the client “Virgin Media” a UK based company that provides Telephone, Cable Television and Broadband Internet Service.Worked for this process as a Lead (Operations IT).

Provided Information Security support from Security Operation Center (SOC):

• Worked closely with project managers and other engineers to develop customized managed network.

• Risk assessment methodology and consistent review of information security policies and procedures.

• Risk based vulnerability assessment, remediation and network access protection.

• IP config and release, renew concepts, remote installation of softwares.

• Configuring the proxy on the client sides.

• Downloading of latest patches and its implementation on systems and network.

• Managing the MBSA reports on a regular basis.

• Configuring and troubleshooting of Cisco PIX firewall.

Technical Skills

Operating System : DOS, Linux, Windows (2000/Me/XP/Server 2003/2008)

Bloatware : MS-Office (XP/2000/2003/2007)

Web Application : Java/J2EE, HTML, DHTML

Server Applications : Web server (Tomcat, IIS), Proxy server (ISA Server

2006)

Authentication and Access : Windows Active Directory

Database : MS-Access, Oracle8i

Security tools : Nessus, Nmap, GFI Languard, Acunetix, Appscan,

Foundstone, Metasploit, HP- Network Automation

Security Applications : Firewall (Cisco Pix) & Firewall Service Module,

Virus Protection (Trend Micro, Symantec, McAfee),

IDS/IPS/XTM, VPN Support

Methods : ISO 27001, Assessing IT-Risks, ISMS, ITIL v3

Virtualization Software : VMware Workstation 7.0.1

Education

• Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT) from Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India.

Strengths

• Strong organizing skills along with good management aptitude.

• Creative and motivated with a balanced approach to assignments.

• Sincere and hardworking with keen learning skills.

• Strong communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.

Personal Details

Date of Birth : 5th March 1980

Languages Known : English, Hindi, and Urdu

Nationality : Indian

Hobbies & Interests : Internet browsing, reading journals, music.

Marital Status : Single

Passport Details:

Passport Number : E6864238

Validity : November 2013

Visa Status : B1 Visa (United States of America)

Validity (June2009 to May2019)

Date : 06-07-2010

Place : New Delhi, India (SYED FAIYAZ AHMAD)

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