This dedicated Information Security Lead Manager is a CCIE-certified Cyber Security professional with 20+ years of enterprise-level experience. Current experience includes working in a Cyber Security Lead role with an Arab based – petroleum and natural gas company. This role requires a lot of international travel and they are interested in settling down with a position that has less frequent travel requirements.

Additional qualifications include:

• Established, implemented, maintained and improved the information security strategy within the context of the organization
• Planned and organized security reviews and conducted annual compliance assessments for all southern area facilities to ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability of systems, networks and data
• Reviewed and monitored the compliance assessment process and introducing necessary changes when required
• Participated in Risk Management, data protection, incident response, supplier risk, vulnerability management, business continuity, disaster recovery, regulatory compliance, controls assurance, crisis management and attack simulations activities
• Designed and deployed Security Architecture including Firewalls, IDS/IPS and Data Diode
• Supervised configuration, management and monitoring of Network Infrastructure including, LAN/WAN, TCP/IP, Routers, Switches and L3/L2 protocols
• Worked with NIST framework following – 880, 853 and 830
• Conducted user awareness training and risk assessment