Muhammad Kashif - Cyber Security / Security Consultant

>_ About Me

Professional Summary

ACCOMPLISHED IT PROFESSIONAL with demonstrated success implementing strategic IT & Network Security initiatives that improve business functionality with positive impacts on the bottom line. Skilled Technical Engineer, with proven ability to lead and motivate teams to maximize productivity.

Education

▹ MSc in Cyber Security-USA
▹ Level 7 Qualified in Computing- UK
▹ Diploma in Information Technologies

>_ Technical Expertise

F5-LTM & ASM

Palo Alto

Fortinet

Arcos (PAM)

Bluecoat Proxy

Barracuda-Proxy

Symantec EDR

Sentinel One EDR

Network Security Operations

Multi-Platform Networking

Qradar SIEM On boarding

Security policies

Vulnerabilities finding methods

Nessus

ITIL

Routing & Switching

Security Solutions

Firewall Installation

Network Scanning

IPS/IDS

URL-Filtering

Web-Application Security

Operation Technologies

AWS Security

EC2-Instances

Security Groups

IAM

Elastic IP

Risk Assessment

Audits

Standards /compliance

>_ Work Experience

SR. Network Security Engineer

Core42

Remote

FEB-2024 – Current

▹ Daily Security Operational support, Management and Troubleshooting
▹ Provide daily operational support, Management and Troubleshooting on Palo Alto, Fortigate and Cisco ASA Firewalls
▹ Firewalls Upgrades like Palo Alto, Fortigate (Multi-Tenants) Environment
▹ Fortinet, Cisco, Palo Alto Firewall Daily Operational support for different clients' sites
▹ Cisco Iron-Port Email Daily Security Operations
▹ KT session giving to the newcomers/joiners on different security technologies
▹ Vulnerabilities Mitigations
▹ Involving in new Onboarding client security devices and make Operational readiness

Security Consultant

Larsen & Toubro - Injazat-MSSP-Project

Abu-Dhabi-UAE

July-2021 – 30th-December-2023

▹ Daily Security Operational support, Management and Troubleshooting F5-LTM & ASM
▹ Provide daily operational support, Management and Troubleshooting on Palo Alto Firewalls for multiple clients
▹ Firewalls Upgrades like Palo Alto, Fortigate (Multi-Tenants) Environment
▹ Cisco ASA Firewall Management and Troubleshooting
▹ Cisco Iron-Port Email Daily Security Operations (Multi-tenants Environment)
▹ Proof Point Email Gateway management, Troubleshooting & upgrades
▹ Managing and configuration of AWS cloud platform (EC2-Instance, Bucket, S3, Cloud front, Elastic beans, Elastic IP, Security Groups, NACLs, Load-Balancer, Cloud Watch monitoring, WAF Implementation, VPC implementation, IAM, AWS Inspector, User's Roles, KMS and policy implementations)
▹ Getting involve into Security Audits, Risk Assessment, Vulnerabilities Assessment and documentation
▹ Arcos (PAM) Management

Security Architect

EHosting Data Fort-Midis Group

Internet City-Dubai

March-2021 - 8th-July-2021

▹ Supporting for daily security operations and management for clients F5-LTM & ASM
▹ Management, Troubleshooting and upgrades for Palo Alto firewalls
▹ Management, Troubleshooting and upgrades for Fortinet
▹ Managing daily operations on XDR- Red Cloak
▹ Management of Arcos (PAM)
▹ Management and troubleshooting users' issues on Bluecoat Proxy
▹ Installation and management of Sentinel One EDR

Security Consultant

GE – Dubai

Dubai (Outsource by Akka Middle East)

JAN-2020 – July-2020

▹ LAN/WAN Designed and Implementation & Configurations (Firewalls)
▹ F5 Load Balancer management & deployment (LTM, Nodes, Virtual servers, Vlans)
▹ VPN Tunneling Configurations between Fortigate- Fortigate /Fortigate – Cisco ASA
▹ IPS Signatures adding and filtration
▹ ILO BIOS Security Implementation
▹ VMWARE Access hardening and security implementation
▹ Experience with Security Assessment tools (NMAP/ ZENMAP, Nessus, Wire shark)
▹ URL Filtration & web base/ Cloud based application security implementation
▹ Achieved 100% client satisfaction in the Benban project delivered

Security Engineer

Thales International

Outsource (Akka Middle East)

April 2018 - December 2019

▹ Fortigate, ASA, Palo Alto Firewalls management, Troubleshooting and upgradation
▹ Email Gateway Management, Troubleshooting
▹ Proxy management and troubleshooting
▹ Onboarding New devices on IBM Qradar SIEM
▹ Achieved 100% client satisfaction

Network Engineer

Monitoring and Control Centre-MCC

Abu Dhabi-UAE (Outsource - Emirates Security Dawn)

Feb-2017 to Dec-2017

▹ LAN/WAN Implementation & Management
▹ Firewall Installation and configurations
▹ SNMP Tools Configuration like spice work
▹ Routing configurations
▹ VLAN routing configurations

>_ Certifications

CISM (Certified Information Security Manager)

ID: IST12310457

IBM Security QRadar SIEM V7.2.6 Associate

ID: IBM000226084

Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP)

ID: 946107

CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) Security

ID: ECC3241580796

Routing, switching & security (CCNA)

ID: CSCO12781185

NSE-4 Fortinet Certified Engineer

ID: MyrtN4RntE

Palo Alto Certified Network Security Engineer

ID: 883975790

Cybersecurity foundation Professional (CSFPC)

ID: 54927539

F5-Certified Administrator Big IP (101 & 201)

Cyber Ark (PAM) Trustee Certified

ID: 1467907

Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate

ID: 44195B-C040G1

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

ID: MEGCNF2DDE41175J

AWS Certified Security – Specialty

ID: BDJ7D8LDFMQEQRC

>_ Technical Skills

Operating Systems

Windows 8, 7 & 10

Server OS

Windows Server 2012 & 2008

Hardware

Cisco3600/3000/2600/1600 series Routers, Cisco 2900 Series Switches, Cisco ASA 5500, Palo-Alto 3020, Fortigate 200E, Fortigate 50E, Cybriom 100, Sophos. Dell Workstation & HP DL 380 - Servers

Protocols

NAT, OSPF, RIP, EIGRP, TCP, UDP, Static Routing, VLAN Trunking, VLAN, VPN, Mpls-BGP

Software

MS Office 97/2007/2010/2013, MS Project, MS Visio, Putty, Hyper Terminal, MS Access

>_ Get In Touch

Open to new opportunities and collaborations in cybersecurity and network security.

📧 [email protected]

📱 +351920106947

📍 Leiria - Portugal