C Abdul Gafoor
Cyber Security Specialist
Manama
Summary
AFSAL ABDUL GAFOOR A visionary technocrat with the merit of heading various functions in the IT-OT industry. Results-Driven Technology Leader, with over 10 years of experience in Network Security and Unified Communication Served as the Active Facilitator during the process of pre-sales, and verification of BOM designed. Design Specialist Expertise in designing SOW, LLD, and Project Handover Documents. Functioned as Lead Technical Expert on highly complex solutions for client opportunities, implementations, and ongoing support. Cross-functional Exposure: Worked across various domains like OT, Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, IT and Banking industry.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
19
19
Certifications
Work History
Network Security Specialist
Procco Finance
01.2021 - Current
- Providing the infrastructure support for Tasheel finance, which is a sama compliant bank in KSA
- On going support for SIEM, PAM, DC firewall and Perimeter firewall
- Conducting POCs for serveral NAC solutions-(forescout, Genian NAC) and preparing the use cases
- One of the key stake holder in PCI-DSS ,Gap Analaysis
- Preparing vulnerability analysis using nessus and Alienvault pluggin
- Expertised in many security products like EDR( Eset and Checkpoint), DLP (Forcepoint) , PAM ( Senhasegura) , WAF ( Baracuda and Radware)
- Establishing a NOC/SOC
Technical Consultant
Oregon Systems
01.2015 - 05.2019
- Liaising with the customers for understanding the RFQ and proposing solution for the same
- Creating & verifying BOQ and LLD
- Supearheading configuration & troubleshooting of Routing Protocols (Static, Dynamic, On-Demand Routing and Policy Based Routing).
Network and Security Engineer
Yokogawa
01.2012 - 01.2015
- UNDERTAKEN
- Leading and acting as point of contact on the team's technology initiatives
- Participating as part of the global data network operations support team
- Managing reactive incident and problem management for high impacting and critical issues
- Middle East and Africa
- Role
- Liaised with 30 agents for managing UCCX server
- Done various cybersecurity OT projects like Maadein Phosphorous
- Company,Saudi Kayan ,LNG oman
- Monitored & resolved L2 and L3 service requests and reported the same to the Deputy General Manager–MIS.
Senior Network Engineer
OREGON SYSTEM
Yokogawa
01.2020 - 01.2012
- Responsible for Managing NGFW with Application Control, Antivirus
- Scanning, IPS, URL Filter and DNS Filter
- Managing the Panorma centralized server for Global Yokogawa network
- Documenting the SOPs for firewalls
- Acting as an escalation contact for IPT and unified communication issues
- SecOPS implementation
- Microsoft Teams implementation and integration to existing cisco IPT infrastructure.
Network Engineer
NetSec Solutions
01.2009 - 05.2011
- Managed implementation & design of Networking Projects related to
- Cisco
- Engaged in designing, planning, installing & implementing Routing &
- Switching Infrastructure
- Executed Data Communication related projects.
Education
B.Tech - Electronics & Communication Engineering
Skills
Flat 22,ROad 2541,Block925 , Bahrain0097334317112Afsalpanthiyil@gmailcomSIEM - Alienvault, ElasticSearch ,WazuhNGFW- Fortigate,CiscoFTD,PaloAlto,Checkpoint,ForcepointOT Firewall- Cisco ASATofinoEDR- Checkpoint, EsetNDR- CheckpointHIDS/NIDS-AlienvaultRouters- CiscoSwitches- Cisco,DellWAF- Radware, BarracudaPAM- SenhaseguraMFA - MiniOrange IDPDLP - ForcepointClassification System-Boldon JamesMonitoring-Zabbix,Graphana,SolarwindS OrionVulnerability Scanner-Nessus, AlienvaultPRODUCTEXPERTISESaudi Kayan (SK), SABICJubail, Saudi Arabia -Network SecurityOman LNG, Sur, OmanSaad Husain Bin Dajam -Jeddah - Silverpeak SD WANAir products Sohair-Wireless ImplementationGIB, Bahrain- Cisco IPTImplementationAlmarai Bahrain- NetworkInfrastructureImplementationD nata travels- FirewallMigration to CheckpointEnglishMalayalamLANGUAGESKNOWN
Certification
AWS Certified Solution Architect
Timeline
Network Security Specialist - Procco Finance
01.2021 - Current
Senior Network Engineer - OREGON SYSTEM
01.2020 - 01.2012
Technical Consultant - Oregon Systems
01.2015 - 05.2019
Network and Security Engineer - Yokogawa
01.2012 - 01.2015
Network Engineer - NetSec Solutions
01.2009 - 05.2011
University College of Engineering, University of Kerala - B.Tech, Electronics & Communication Engineering