Muddasar Khan

Muddasar Khan has three years of professional work experience. In 2020, they began working as a Sr. Network Security Engineer (Remote) at Configure, Inc., where they served as a Subject Matter Expert with major vendors Checkpoint, PaloAlto, Fortinet, Solarwinds, IBM Qradar, Tenable Nessus and Cisco to manage customer's security infrastructure. Theirresponsibilities included understanding complex technical issues and managing them within a fast-paced business environment, maintaining all the software and hardware in relation to security and relative documentations, identifying current and emerging technology issues including security trends, vulnerabilities and threat intelligence, sourcing and implementing new security solutions to better protect the organization, and conducting proactive research to analyze security weaknesses and recommend appropriate strategies.

In 2019, Muddasar Khan began working at Gerry's Group as a Network Specialist. Theirresponsibilities included playing a role as a Team Lead IT infrastructure for the North Region and devising comprehensive network/System configuration and security policies. This included determining IT infrastructure issues that need to be addressed, identifying security strategies, IT risk/vulnerability assessment, implementing policies for allocating administrative tasks, flagging suspicious activity and attacks, and devising network password/access procedures. Muddasar was also responsible for Incident handling and response, with knowledge of common probing and attack methods, viruses, botnets and other forms of malware.

Muddasar Khan began their professional career in 2014 at Askari General Insurance Company Limited, where they worked as an Executive Officer Network Infrastructure and Junior Officer Network Infrastructure. As an Executive Officer, their responsibilities included team lead, management of Juniper SSG520, TMG/Proxy Server, Domain Controller, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, IIS Application Server, File Server (FSRM, DFS), Remote Management, Kaspersky Endpoint Security 11 and Backup/Recovery of Servers (VMs and Physical). As a Junior Officer, their responsibilities included Forefront TMG implementation ISA Server, inbound rules outbound rules URL Filtering, Secure Gateway, Firewall, Threat Management 2010 for Gateway, installation and configuration of Microsoft Active Directory and maintaining end user accounts, permissions, and access rights through GPO's, monitoring network traffic, BIO Metric attendance, CCTV Cameras, Exchange Server 2013 usage and error statistics, and assisting 100+ staff members in troubleshooting and resolution of network problems and outlook 2010.

Muddasar Khan's education history includes a Master's Degree in Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services from the COMSATS Institute of Information and Technology, which they completed between 2015 and 2017. Khan has also obtained a number of certifications, including IBM Certified Associate Administrator - IBM QRadar SIEM V7.3.2 from IBM (2020), Network Security Professional (NSE4) from Fortinet (2020), MCSE 2012 (Cloud Plateform and Infrastructure) from Microsoft (2017), CCNA R&S (Cisco Certified Network Associate) from Cisco, Certified Ethical Hacker CEHv10 (Training) from EC-Council, Cisco Certified Network Associate Security (CCNA) from Cisco Networking Academy, Cisco Certified Network Professional Security (CCNP-S) from Cisco, MCSA 2012 (Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate) from Microsoft, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 from Microsoft, and Palo Alto Certified Network Security Engineer from Palo Alto Networks.