Muhamed Samir

A seasoned cybersecurity service delivery manager with over 10+ years of experience leading and managing SOC, SIEM, VA, GRC activities, with proven expertise in handling 30+ team members. My expertise has benefited clients across US, EU, India and GCC regions in retail sector, Oil & Gas, BFSI, Aviation sector, Manufacturing industry and Healthcare services (In Staff Aug corporate security services and MSSP environments)Proven track record and demonstrated hands-on experience in across SOC, Incident response, Root cause analysis, Malware analysis, Phishing email analysis, threat intelligence, AI security best practices and use case development, SOC onboarding - Transition and steady state phases, continuous SOC maturity assessments, with operational excellence, project and service delivery management, SIEM monitoring at tier 1 and tier 2 levels, end to end EDR and AV management, Cloud security incident response exposure (AWS and Azure), Also possess hands-on practice and experience in Threat hunting, usage of Cybersecurity frameworks like MITRE, cyber kill chain, NIST, proxies, IDS/IPS alert systems, firewalls, understanding of HIPAA, PCI-DSS, UAE standard DESC and NESA compliance standards. Apart from technical competencies, capable of handling a team (handled a team of max size 30) and aspiring the same with a great zeal towards leadership qualities, team management and escalation handling - being the front and client facing, along with providing mentorship to the team members as and when required. Have handled teams of SOC, SIEM and VAPT.Security platforms worked on:1. Endpoint Security - Symantec Endpoint Protection (v12 and v14)2. EDR/MDR/XDR - Crowdstrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender, Sentinel One3. Email Security - Proofpoint, Mimecast4. SIEM - Splunk, IBM Qradar, Microsoft Sentinel, Elastic Search Kibana5. Vulnerability Management - Qualys Guard6. SOAR - MS Sentinel, Cortex XSOAR and IBM Resilient7. Firewall - Palo Alto