System & Network Security Engineer at Alunan Persada Sdn Bhd
Malaysia
System & Network Security Engineer at Alunan Persada Sdn Bhd
Malaysia
Security professional that has conducted risk assessments, security audits, security workshops and awareness training. Also provided defense planning, solution design and product selection in the area of perimeter security. And also developed architecture design of identity and access management solutions, and designed enterprise and ISP security architecture.
Plays around with every new security tool known to man and keeps up with the latest vulnerabilities and security strategies. Reads a lot of security articles and books and learns everything from protocol analysis and packet structure to firewall and router configurations. Passionate about open source solutions and Linux.
Experienced in Juniper and Lucent firewalls, TippingPoint IPS and Juniper IDP, Juniper SSL VPN, Niksun NetDetector, ArcSight ESM, Proofpoint Secure Messaging Gateway, Arbor Peakflow SP, Juniper UAC, InfoSim StableNet.
Programming Languages: C/C++, DirectX, Java, Assembly, HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, Perl, Shell Scripting.
Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/2003 Server/XP/Vista, DOS, Red Hat, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Knoppix, Archlinux, Ubuntu, Solaris.
JNCIA-FWV, CompTIA Security+
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Became a consulting engineer for customers that are mostly ISPs to address issues and questions on infrastructure security problems and solutions.
Installed, maintained and supported mission critical customer security solutions and tools such as Firewalls, IPSs, SIEMs, anti-spam systems, VPN systems, network forensic tools, anti-DDoS systems, NACs and network behavioral analysis tools.
Advised and proposed to customers solutions to ensure high-availability and adequate capability of the security systems.
Involved in all network security-related projects as the lead technical engineer in the project team.
Conducted end-user training on a per-request basis.
Provided documentations and user guides for customers.
(Computer & Network Security industry)
January 2007 — January 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Conducted risk assessments and security audits based on certified security assessment methodologies.
Performed defense planning such as development of information security policies and procedures as well as design of incident management solutions.
Conducted security workshop and awareness training for clients.
Provided solution design and product selection in the area of perimeter security including firewalling, content security, proxy caching as well as VPN solutions.
Provided architecture design of identity and access management solutions.
Provided design of enterprise security architecture based on common industry standards.
Conducted pre-sales activities in the area of information security.
Contributed to the internal Vetrisolutions security practice.
Conducted training of client staff in safe computer practices (including maintenance), programming, and information security.
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
2005 — 2007 (2 years )
(March 2007 - June 2007, Temporary Contract, completed successfully)
(May 2006 - July 2006, Temporary Contract, completed successfully)
(January 2005 - May 2005, Temporary Contract, completed successfully)
Conducted and organized training programmes teaching the proper use of ICT equipment provided by the Ministry of Education to selected teachers all over Sabah as part of the PPSMI project.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 8 months)
(Fixed-term Contract, completed successfully)
As leader of the helpdesk team, coordinated helpdesk work flow and managed all jobs under jurisdiction.
Attended jobs with hardware and software faults.
Designed deployment flowcharts and monitoring systems to oversee the progress of maintenance work of several projects.
Specialized in troubleshooting of virus and malware, server and networking faults, and unix/linux problems.
Coordinated all MIMOS jobs within Sabah and Labuan.
Conducted training on open source technologies and computer maintenance and troubleshooting techniques and strategies.
Electronics Engineering 1999 — 2004
Industrial Physics 1995 — 1998
1990 — 1994
security, vulnerability, protocol analysis, packet structure, firewall, ips, open source, linux
International Game Developers Association, Sun Developer Network, Nokia Developer Network, Motorola Developer Network, Malaysia Information Technology Security Association