M. Afaq Abid

Lead Offensive Security Engineer at Halborn

M. Afaq Abid is currently working as a Lead Offensive Security Engineer at Halborn since 2021. Previously, they worked as a Penetration Tester at Confidential from 2019 to 2021. Before that, they were a Sr. Network Engineer and IT Support Engineer at FutureNow Technologies from 2018 to 2019. M. Afaq also worked as a System Administrator at CodeIT from 2016 to 2018, where they were responsible for managing Active Directory, sharing and securing resources in File Server, implementing and managing Group Policies, and diagnosing and solving network, program, hardware, and user-created problems.

M. Afaq Abid has an education history that includes an Associate's degree in Computer Networking from Virtual University of Pakistan from 2016 to 2018, and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Virtual University of Pakistan from 2018 to 2022. M. Afaq has also obtained several certifications, including ICSI | CNSS Certified Network Security Specialist from ICSI (International CyberSecurity Institute), UK in June 2020, Microsoft Office Specialist Word 2013 from Microsoft in October 2018, Huawei Certified Network Professionals (HCNP Routing and Switching) from Huawei Technologies in December 2018, Huawei Certified Network Associate (HCNA Routing and Switching) from Huawei Technologies in October 2018, Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching (CCNA Routing and Switching) from Cisco in October 2017, and Certified Secure Computer User (C/SCU) from EC-Council.

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Timeline

  • Lead Offensive Security Engineer

    January, 2022 - present

  • Offensive Security Engineer

    November, 2021