CV/Mission Suricata freelance

Exemple des missions de Youssef,
freelance SURICATA habitant la Seine-et-Marne (77)

• LEASEUP (France): Pentester
  Jan 2021 - aujourd'hui

  Leasup is a European dematerialized property management solution for retailers such as GUCCI, LOUIS VUITTON, STARBUCKS, ...
  ➢ Pentest in regards of the OWASP requirements
  ➢ APIs exploitation
  ➢ Joomla and Fabrik exploitation
  ➢ Static code analysis (PHP/JS/SQL)
  ➢ Cybersecurity Design

• KAPALYA (USA): Pentester
  Jan 2021 - aujourd'hui

  Pentest against Kapalya application: Encryption Management Platform. The server-side application is composed of a Key Management server (Gemalto), an Active Directory server and a front-end.
  The client-side application is composed of a binary and mobile applications (Android/IOS).
  ➢ Reverse engineering of the applications

• Senior Cybersecurity Analyst

  UAB (United Arab Bank – Dubai)
  Jan 2021 - Jan 2022

  ➢ AppSec consultancy: methodologies and implementation
  ➢ Pentest against applications that communicates with the Central Bank
  ➢ Pentest: Bank Web Applications
  ➢ Pentest in regards of PCI-DSS certification
  ➢ Vulnerability assessment
  ➢ Reporting with Remediation
  ➢ Deployment of the TAIPAN PENTEST PLATFORM
  ➢ Cybersecurity Design

• Senior Cybersecurity Analyst

  BNP PARIBAS: CIB
  Jan 2020 - aujourd'hui

  CIS based System Hardening
  ➢ Study and implementation of CIS compliancy for more than 400 000 assets
  ➢ Vulnerability assessment (Nexpose, InsighVM / Rapid7)
  ➢ Vulnerability management (for the SOC operations – integration with SIEM and Cyber Threat Intelligence)
  ➢ Reporting
  ➢ Design of defensive rules
  ➢ Coding of a temporary policy editor (API, Python, Shell) while Rapid7 corrects its own after bugs I have reported

• TAIPAN
  Jan 2020 - Jan 2020

  Conception, Design and Development of a new framework for CISOs, IT Cybersecurity managers, IT managers and pentesters. TAIPAN is a SOC-ready solution.
  Project Management
  AppSec implementation
  For IT managers and IT Cybersecurity managers:
  ➢ Understand the principles and issues of pentest
  ➢ Get live access to your pentesters' mission information through sophisticated dashboards
  ➢ Keep an eye on the operations and actions carried out by your pentesters
  ➢ Keep control of the tools used by your pentest service providers
  ➢ Be alerted live when critical Cybersecurity breaches occur
  ➢ Access your reports and perform the research you need
  ➢ Get deep insight into remediation and mitigation plans
  ➢ Be compliant with the Cybersecurity norms and standards that your business imposes on you
  ➢ Train your teams
  ➢ Embed pentest operations into SIEM (Elastic SIEM), Data visualization with Kibana and Grafana
  For pentesters:
  ➢ Build and organize attacks
  ➢ Control the workflow of attack scenarios
  ➢ A unique and modern interface for: recognition, fingerprinting, vulnerability analysis, attack tools, loots, reports
  ➢ All hacking tools at your fingertips: keep the customer's confidence
  ➢ Communicate with your teams or those of your Customer

  Technologies: Python, SQLAlechemy, JS, RabbitMQ, Mitre, Docker, GDPR, …

• Management of the Cybersecurity and development teams

  DEVSECOPS– AUDIOVISUAL GROUP
  Jan 2019 - Jan 2020

  Architect/Cybersecurity Specialist and Researcher
  ➢ Analysis of the current hack impacting entertainment channels
  ➢ Proposal of a solution that avoid the HDMI and particularly the HDCP hack
  ➢ Design of the global architecture (system and network devices)
  ➢ POC of the solution (hardware and software based including my Crypto patent)

• Architect/Cybersecurity Specialist and Researcher

  HAYDAR TECHNOLOGIES
  Jan 2019 - Jan 2020

  BIG-DATA and Machine Learning project: Architecture and Development of a data analysis tool. The goal was to meet the following needs:
  ➢ Collection and analysis of all public data
  ➢ Reputation calculation and analysis
  ➢ Decision support
  ➢ Calculation and trend analysis
  ➢ Improvement of surveys
  
  The development was based on a field of the artificial intelligence: NLP (Natural Language Processing) including NLU (Natural Language Understanding).
  The solution is cloud based: Harbor, Kubernetes, Rancher, Kong/Kuma, Keycloak (IAM). DEVOPS: Management of the development team

• until now (TAIPAN CYBERSECURITY)– La Banque Postale Asset
  Jan 2017 - Jan 2022

  Management (France – Paris): Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
  ➢ System hardening project management
  ➢ CIS based System Hardening for servers and workstations (Linux/MS Windows)
  ➢ Cybersecurity advisor
  ➢ Office 365 / Azure Hardening and security designing
  ➢ Pentest against bank/financial applications
  ➢ Vulnerability assessment
  ➢ Risk analysis
  ➢ Reporting with Remediation
  ➢ Log management definition and architecture for an external SOC (SIEM Elastic)

• Architect and Cybersecurity Specialist

  VOLKSWAGEN GROUP
  Jan 2017 - Jan 2019

  ➢ Pentests and SOC-stress
  ➢ Successfully exploit vulnerabilities that gave me access to the entire dealers database: a breach that could cost thousands millions of dollars to VW AG.
  ➢ Design of the SIEM architecture/rules (ELK-SPLUNK) for the French VW division SOC
  ➢ Collaborating with the VW-Cert (incident response)
  ➢ Helping in forensics events
  ➢ Proposal of a new method to run pentests
  ➢ Design of a new data distribution model: cloud based / Edge and Fog computing
  ➢ Development of a new data collect/distribution method faster than what exist today (Cloud, ZMQ and Artificial intelligence based): Python, Golang (concurrency and parallel development)
  ➢ Cloud architecture: Rancher, Harbor, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS
  ➢ Cloud Cybersecurity architecture and implementation: Kong and Kuma, IDPS
  ➢ Kubernetes architecture and application development
  ➢ Crypto system development
  ➢ GDPR
  ➢ Management of a team (15 people) composed of: Phd in mathematics, Phd in Artificial Intelligence, Phd in Mechatronic, Phd in Cloud computing, Kubernetes Specialists,
  
  Developers

  _Python, Mitre Attak, Docker, Kubernetes, Elastic Search, Splunk, GDPR, Golang, …DEVOPS_ Management of the architects and development teams (more than 40 people)

• Cybersecurity Researcher and Founder

  2014 - aujourd'hui

  Owner of Cybersecurity tool patents (crypto)
  ➢ Research and Development in Cybersecurity: Crypto, Patch Management, Mobile App, Advanced Intrusion Detection - Holder of 3 innovative patents (1 deposed and 2 ongoing).
  ➢ Development of an application for Pentesters and Management that give a real-time insight of what the pentesters are doing during their mission: Taipan Framework (ondemand demo available).
  ➢ ESGI professor (Cybersecurity High School in Paris)
  ➢ Development of an Ethical Hacking training program in collaboration with Russian researchers.
  ➢ Ethical Hacking Trainer
  ➢ Cybersecurity Tools Development: LISP, Python, C, OpenSource
  ➢ Solution Development: ELK, AlienVault OSSIM, pfSense, Suricata, CloudStack, OpenStack,