Abdulazeez Abdulkadir's Resume

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Abdulazeez Abdulkadir

Cybersecurity Engineer

Work Experience:

IT Security Engineer

October 2023 – Present
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust

Incident response and management, Comprehensive asset management – discovery, and tagging devices, SIEM, EDR, XDR monitoring, configuration and fine tuning (Splunk, Forescout, Darktrace and Microsoft Defender ATP), Risk assessment and containment, Firewall Configuration & Management (Imperva and checkpoint), Identity and privilege access management (IAM, PAM, MFA), Cloud Security and Monitoring (Azure, AWS, ADAudit), Email security and monitoring (Mimecast & Microsoft).

IT Security Lead

January 2021 – September 2023
Freeki Pay / Ecommerce Group

Incident Handling and Response, SIEM & UEBA Management (Splunk, LogRhythm), NGAV & EDR Management (Crowstrike), Vulnerability Management (Qualys,Nessus), Cybersecurity Monitoring (Servers, Infrastructure, Cloud, Endpoints), Firewall Management (Fortinet, IDS/IPS, Anti-Malware, Web Filtering, Networking, VPN). , InfoSec Policies, Procedures, Playbooks, IAM (AD, RBAC, SSO, MFA), Cloud Security (Azure, AWS, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Scoutsuite), Web Security (WAF, CloudFlare, Email Filtering).

Systems Administrator

April 2019 – January 2021
Westfield Consulting Ltd

Firewall Management (Checkpoint, Networking, VPN). Infrastructure Administration (Cisco, Routers, Switches, Storage). System Administration (Windows Server, Linux/UNIX, CentOS, SLES, RHEL). Network Administration (DNS, DHCP, RADIUS, AD, GPO, TCP/IP).

Network Support Engineer

January 2018 - March 2019
Internet Solutions Ltd

Network Administration (DNS, DHCP, RADIUS, TCP/IP). Network Monitoring (Watchdog). Helpdesk and Ticket resolution.

Systems Administrator Intern

May 2017 - Dec 2018
Nigeria Petroleum Distribution Company

Account Management, Hardware & Software Maintenance, Privilege Management, Ticket Resolution and Troubleshooting.

Public Projects:

Education:

Masters of Science in Cybersecurity

2022
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield. England
Specialization: Cyber Security

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science

2015
Federal University of Technology, Akure. Nigeria
Specialization: Computer Science
Certifications:
  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
  • CompTIA Security Analytics Professional (CSAP)
  • Comptia Cybersecurity Analyst+ (CYSA+)
  • Comptia Security+ (Sec+)
  • Comptia Network+ (Network+)
  • Information Security Associate ISO/IEC 27001
  • Microsoft Azure (AZ-900)
  • Microsoft Security, Compliance and Identity (SC900)
  • AWS Cloud practitioner (AWS CCP)
  • Certified in Cybersecurity (CC-ISC2)
  • Splunk core user (Cybrary Certified)
  • ITIL 4 Foundation (Cybrary Certified).
Intl. Recognition:
  • Apple Security Hall of Fame for Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure
  • Nokia Security Hall of Fame for Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure