Obad Zafar

Cybersecurity Trainer

Karachi, Pakistan

Erfahrungen

Feb. 2023 - Bis heute
2 Jahren 5 Monaten
Karachi, Pakistan

Cybersecurity Trainer

National Center for Cyber Security - NED University

  • Offer professional training and certification programs, including (ISC) 2 certification in cybersecurity, to both professionals and students.
  • Utilize industry knowledge and instructional expertise to develop and implement tailored training courses that effectively enhance participants' knowledge and skills.
  • Organized a zero-day awareness seminar on cybersecurity, which was attended by 500+ students and industry professionals, featuring speaker talks, panel discussions, and workshops (2023).
Nov. 2022 - Feb. 2023
4 Monaten
Karachi, Pakistan

Visiting Lecturer

DHA Suffa University

  • Delivered lectures on Machine Learning to undergraduate students at DHA Suffa University, providing a comprehensive and engaging learning experience.
Aug. 2021 - Bis heute
3 Jahren 11 Monaten
Karachi, Pakistan

Research Associate

Technology Transfer Support Fund - NED University

  • Leading the Attack Eye project to develop Pakistan's first indigenous external attack surface solution.
  • Leading the Incident Response Management product called NCCS-IRP, which enables organizations to respond to cybersecurity incidents and security breaches.
Dez. 2019 - Juli 2021
1 Jahr 8 Monaten
Karachi, Pakistan

Research Associate

National Center for Cyber Security - NED University

  • Managed the realm of digital forensics and leveraged machine learning along with the Volatility memory forensics tool to detect ransomware processes in volatile memory with an F1 score of 92%.
  • Deployed the WAZUH (SIEM) for intrusion detection, vulnerability detection, and log data analysis of digital assets within NCCS.
  • Developed STIP parser for security and network logs allowing for analysis and event correlation with python.
  • Research paper 'Process-based volatile memory forensics for ransomware detection,' published in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, was recognized as one of the journal's most downloaded papers (2023).
  • Lead the development of the nation's first-ever SIEM solution, the Security and Threat Intelligence Platform (STIP), as part of the Technology Transfer Support Fund (TTSF-84) award of 11.4 million rupees from the Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan. Collaboration between NED University and National Clearing Company Private Limited (NCCPL) (2022).

Zusammenfassung

Experienced DevSecOps professional with over 5 years of experience in software development, infrastructure management, and cloud computing. Strong skills in automation, configuration management, and deployment. Proven track record of improving software development processes and reducing infrastructure costs.

Sprachen

Urdu
Muttersprache
Englisch
Verhandlungssicher

Ausbildung

Okt. 2018 - Juni 2022

FAST National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences

Master of Science · Data Science · Pakistan · 3.03

Okt. 2014 - Juni 2017

Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology

Bachelor of Science · Computer Science · Pakistan · 3.15

Zertifikate & Bescheinigungen

Certified in Cybersecurity

(ISC)²

Cybersecurity Compliance Framework & System Administration

Coursera

Cybersecurity Roles, Processes & Operating System Security

Coursera

Introduction to Cybersecurity Tools & Cyber Attacks

Coursera

Introduction to Deep Learning in Python

DataCamp

Linear Classifiers in Python

DataCamp

Network Security & Database Vulnerability

Coursera

Penetration Testing, Incident Response and Forensics

Coursera

Recurrent Neural Networks for Language Modeling in Python

DataCamp

Convolutional Neural Networks

Coursera

Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyper parameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization

Coursera