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Yousaf Haroon is a skilled Cyber Security Practitioner who is enthusiast in uplifting the organizational cyber security posture as well as its business security. Having more than 10 years of professional experience and skills in Cyber Security with a Masters (MS) degree in Information Security (3.86 CGPA) from Riphah International University Islamabad, he also holds renowned Cyber security certifications like CISA, CEH Practical, CHFI, CC, CCNA Security, etc.
He also has the honour of working directly with one of the World's top Cyber Security Expert Mr. Rafay Baloch in Pakistan Telecom Authority - PTA.
پراجیکٹس
تجربہ
Assistant Director Cyber Security
Working with World's renowned Cyber Security Expert Mr. Rafay Baloch at PTA:
- Directly involved in PTA Internal Cyber Security engagements including but not limited to Penetration testing, VAPT, Security Audits, GRC, Cyber security assessments and Investigations of internal IT Infrastructure, Active Directory, Applications, APIs as well as Telecom Licensee operators to improve the overall cyber security posture of Telecom sector.
- Involved in Cybersecurity CTDISR regulatory compliance audits of Licensee and revalidation of 3rd party audits.
- Involved in PTA’s Security Operation center, Telecom sectoral SOC project, SIEM solution, formulation of Telecom Cybersecurity Framework, ISO 27001, ISO 27000 series, NIST, SOC 2, CTDISR controls and maturity levels, audit and compliance guidelines, Cybersecurity audit firms’ registration criteria and categorization, etc.
- Security Advisories, Alerts and Threat Intelligence, CERT portal, blocking of unlawful content through Central DNS system, and other regulatory engagements.
Deputy Director - Cybersecrity
- Coordination with Public & Private sector organizations for the Accreditation of Certification Service Providers (CSPs) and Registration of Security Auditors as per ECAC Regulations 2008.
- Involved in the implementation of National Root-CA, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Information Security and International best practices and standards.
- Assisting in the registration of Information Security Auditors with ECAC like Risk Associates Pvt. Ltd.
- Involved in establishing IT setup for start-ups including IT procurement as PPRA guidelines.
NETWORK SECURITY SPECIALIST
- Plan, design and implement Complex Network & Security Infrastructure for different clients.
- Security Implementation, Vulnerability Assessment & Pentesting (VAPT), Performance Optimization (throughput, user bandwidth allocation & quota, utilization) and SIEM solution (IBM QRadar).
- Installation, Configuration and troubleshooting of LAN, WAN, Wireless LAN with DNS, DHCP, VLANs, SNMP, Syslog, Switches(L2,L3), CISCO, HUAWEI, MikroTik Routers, Firewalls (HUAWEI, CISCO, Fortigate, Pfsense/OPNsense), VPN Servers, WLANs(Ruckus, HUAWEI), Video conferencing equipment at company as well as at customer premises as per defined SLAs.
- Ensure Network Policies and Security policies as per the requirement, availability of IT resources and resolve end users problems.
- Maintaining Network related software applications, operating systems and regular maintenance
IT OFFICER
- Monitoring and Policy management of AWT Network, Endpoints, Datacenter for NMS using Spiceworks, Cacti, PRTG, SysLog Server.
- Installation, support and maintenance of Windows and Linux Operating System, Internet applications such as Email Server, Proxy, DHCP etc. ERP solution support and basic maintenance.
- Planning and implementation of comprehensive IT Security, Backups & Disaster Recovery.
- Installation, Administration, Troubleshooting and maintenance of AWT users on LAN, WLAN with Windows Server Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Forefront TMG Proxy, Squid Server, Firewall, VMware Hypervisor ESXi, vCenter Server and Kaspersky Security center at AWT Data Center.
- Supervision of IT Support team.
Field Support Engineer - Networks
- Installation and Configuration of complete WAN, WLAN.
- Survey, Installation, configuration and Troubleshooting of Wireless Point-to-Point links using UBNT devices.
- Configuration and Troubleshooting of Cisco, TP Link Switches, Load Balancers, ADSL Routers and APs.
- Complete Network, Technical Support to the customers and solving queries as per SLAs.
- Configuration and Troubleshooting of CIS CPE at the customer end, wireless and internet bandwidth management, helpdesk Ticket system and MRTG monitoring.
- Supervision of technical team.
