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Manchester, Lancashire

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PROFILE: Experienced Information Security professional with experience in financial, banking and consulting industries with focus on ISO/IEC 27001 standard, and PCI-DSS compliance. A post graduate degree holder in Information Security Management (MSc) and member of ISACA and BCS. Demonstrated to be reliable, trustworthy, and meticulous person; working in a controls-focused environment, multinational, and multicultural organization over the past five years and gained a good understanding of what is required of the Information Security professional. LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/abdulnyoka SKILLS: • Information Security Management System (ISMS): Manage People, Processes and Technologies based on ISO/IEC 27001 (BS 17799). • Security Policy, Organizational of Information Security, Asset management, Human Resources Security, Physical and Environmental Security, Communications and Operations Management, Access Control, Information Systems Acquisition, Development and Maintenance, Information Security Incident Management, Business Continuity Management, Compliance and Risk Management. • Audit experience in auditing ISMS based on ISO 27001. • Ability to transform and translate technology risks to be understood by all the business stakeholders in order to understand the organization information assets are well safeguarded. • Penetration Test Tools: Metasploit, Nessus, Nmap, w3af, web goat, WHOIS, Visual Route, and Net Craft. • Security Management Tools: Snort IDS/IPS, PGP, OpenPGP, Firewall IP Tables, Kaspersky AV, Wire shark, Symantec Endpoint Centre. • Computer Forensics: EnCase Forensic suite, X-Ways, Penguin Sleuth, and FTK. • ITIL Service delivery foundation basics: service delivery, capacity planning, availability and continuity planning • Regulation Awareness: Data Protection Act 1998, Computer Misuse Act 1990, UK Electronic Communication Act 2000, Freedom Of Information Act 2000, The Telecommunications Regulations 2000, The Electronics Signatures Regulations 2002, and RIPA 2000. • Standards: COBIT, PCI DSS, ISF SGOP for Information Security, ISSAF 2.0, ISO 27000 Series, NIST SP 800-61(Incident Management), NIST 800 -60 (Risk Management) and ITIL v2. • Applications: MS Windows Server Active Directory Management, Ms Exchange Server Management. • Operating System: – Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Linux Ubuntu Server, Linux Desktop, and BackTrack 4. • Networking: TCP/IP and Networking devices • Virtual Environment: VMWARE, and Oracle Suns Virtual Box. • Database Management: MySQL Database Server, MSSQL Database Server • Web development: HTML, CSS, PHP Scripting Programming, Adobe Dreamweaver, Flash and Photoshop

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