Omar Salem Bensumaidea
Riyadh,Saudi Arabia
Summary
Highly motivated professional with a strong background in operational risk management and cyber security seeking a challenging position in an organization that values continuous professional growth and outstanding career development. Experienced in implementing effective risk management strategies and ensuring the security of digital assets.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Losses & Incident Management Officer, Operation Risk Management
Alinma Bank
07.2023 - Current
- Manage and monitor operational risk losses and conduct operation loss events and root cause analysis to identify gaps and recommend mitigating controls.
- Developed strategic plans aligned with company goals, resulting in improved annual performance metrics across multiple areas of operation.
- Responsible for risk and control Self-Assessment (RCSA) procedures to ensure risk management controls.
- Investigate operational risk incidents and provide recommendations to prevent recurrence of events.
- Review regulatory penalties to issue root cause analysis and other required reports.
- Updating risk profiles, KRI and control testing of all assigned Business/Support units.
- Preparing SAMA reports such as Q17.
- Led system and process enhancement projects.
Cyber Security Defense Senior Officer
Alinma Bank
12.2019 - 06.2023
- Incident investigations, determining the cause of the security incident, and preserving evidence for potential legal action
- Responds to alerts from various monitoring systems and platforms to address potentially malicious events on time
- Managing DLP (Data Loss Prevention) policy and interacting with incidents for the outgoing emails, removable storage and uploading, Creating/Modifying policies based on the organization needs, Installing/upgrading agents based on endpoint status and patches, and generating monthly governance reports
- Detects the full spectrum of known cyber-attacks (e.g., DDoS, malware, phishing, ransomware, and others) along with any security and compliance violations
- Security review of encryption policies, sensor policies for IDS/IPS, Firewalls, web security gateway, and logging
- Member of 24/7 Security Team through SIEM to Monitor all (Logs activity, offenses, Network activity, VPN, SEP, FireEye, Avecto, ser analytics…etc.)
- Perform IDS monitoring and analysis, analyze network traffic, log analysis, prioritize, and differentiate between potential intrusion attempts and false alarms
- Responsible for remediating security gaps, following up on non-compliance, and ensuring operational activities within IT services follow information security best practices
- Remain informed and improve awareness of Information Security news and developments, especially in relation to the banking and financial services industry
- Keep accurate and concise records for all cases
- Reports security performance against established security metrics
- Prepare/report incident report
Network Engineer Officer
Cure Development
01.2019 - 11.2019
- Utilized Wireshark for packet analysis, resolving network bottlenecks and enhancing data transmission for client networks.
- System Technologies: Concepts of computing, Hardware, Software, Computer Management, Troubleshooting, Assembling and disassembling the computer system and network devices, and operating system
- Internet Connectivity
Education
Bachelor of Computer Application -
Osmania University
Indian, AK04-2017
Skills
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Knowledge of risk management frameworks
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Organizational development
- Network Traffic Monitoring
- Knowledge of regulations
- Threat Intelligence
- Gap Assessment
- Threat Report
- Log Analysis
- Team Player
Certification
- Cisco Certified Network Profession (CCNA, R&S), CSCO13296418
- Anomali University Certified Administrators 102 & Users 101, 100704282 - 100709972
- CompTIA, Security+, Training
- Recorded Future Certified (Threat Intelligence), Training
- Windows Enterprise Incident Response (WEIR Mandiant), Training
- Center of Excellence in Information Assurance Malware Forensic, Training
- Cyber Threat Hunting, Training
Timeline
Losses & Incident Management Officer, Operation Risk Management
Alinma Bank
07.2023 - Current
Cyber Security Defense Senior Officer
Alinma Bank
12.2019 - 06.2023
Network Engineer Officer
Cure Development
01.2019 - 11.2019
Bachelor of Computer Application -
Osmania University
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