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Hello! , I am Awwad

Ahmed Khaled A. Awwad

Cyber Security Engineer SOC Tier 1

Electronics and Communication Engineer, Jr SOC Analyst with 1 year of experience in analysis and cooperation in incident investigations. Seeking to leverage my skills in a challenging SOC Analyst Tier 1 role. Committed to enhancing security operations by utilizing advanced threat detection techniques and incident response strategies. Also Mentor at Cyber Gates Academy.

English - B2 Upper Intermediate

Skills and Tools

Tools

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Experience & Courses

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Cyber Security Engineer
Klivvr

August 2024 - Present, Cairo.

SOC Analyst Tier 1, responsible for monitoring and investigating incidents, working with SIEM solution, EDR and Antivirus. Detect any unusual behavior may violate security in organization.

Responsibilities:
  • SIEM solutions
  • Mail Gateway
  • Network Seucrity
  • EDR
  • Monitoring and investigating

Armed Force

June 2023 - June 2024, Confidential.

I have been serving as Kaspersky administrator. Monitor, maintain, and develop Kaspersky servers and manage devices. Ensure the internal network remains air-gapped and free from any malicious malware. Manage all military internal network and systems. Install, configure, and maintain organizations’ computer devices.

Kaspersky Administrator

- June 2024

  • Software & Hardware Maintenance
  • Kaspersky server development
  • Devices Monitoring
Network / System Administrator

June 2023 - Present

  • Software & Hardware Maintenance
  • Network Monitoring
  • IT Troubleshooting
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Cyber Security Engineer
Optima Professional Services (OPS)

October 2022 - May 2023, Cairo.

SOC Analyst Tier 1, responsible for monitoring and investigating incidents, working with SIEM solutions, EDR, and SOAR playbooks. Investigate incidents and enhance false positive correlation.

Responsibilities:
  • SIEM solutions
  • SOAR and automation
  • Network Seucrity
  • Application Security
  • Monitoring and investigating

Cyber Security Engineer
Udacity & ITIDA.

July 2022 - Nov 2022, Online.

Udacity Cyber Security Engineer Nanodegree Expert level in the Egypt FWD program ITIDA.

Responsibilities:
  • Security Engineering Fundamentals
  • System Security
  • Infrastructure Security
  • Application Security
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Spamurai Project
Cyber Security R&D Graduation project.

Aug 2021 - July 2022, Helwan University.

Spamurai is an email anti-spammer system developed as my graduation project in the cybersecurity field. It is an R&D project aimed at finding solutions to detect and prevent or reduce user interaction with harmful/spam emails by analyzing their content.

Responsibilities:
  • Security Engineering Fundamentals
  • System Security
  • Email Pipline
  • Machine Learning - Text Classification - URL Classification
  • Sandboxing Opensource
  • Web development
  • APIs

Intern Cyber Security Engineer
Virtually Testing Foundation

May 2022 - July 2022, Online

Virtually Testing is a California, USA based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Our mission is to serve a cybersecurity-focused community by organizing speaker events, hands-on workshops, conferences, etc.

Responsibilities:
  • Red Team, Blue Team, and Purple Team.
  • Splunk, Mitre Att&ck, OSINT
  • Pfsense, OS, Security, Cloud Computing.
  • OWASP 10, Nmap, Metasploit
  • Passive & Active Reconnaissance
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Penetration Testing Intern

Jul 2021 - Jul 2021, Online

Scholarship by TrendMicro & Cybertalents.

Penetration Testing Intern

Jun 2021 - Jul 2021

  • Learned various topics in network penetration testing, including reconnaissance, exploitation, privilege escalation on Linux and Windows, pivoting, and tunneling.
  • Operating with Frameworks like - Metasploit and Armitage
Web Security

Jul 2021 - Aug 2021

  • Dived deep into OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities with different techniques of exploitation and remediation.
  • Among the top 10 in the web security and penetration testing evaluation CTF.

Udacity

Nov 2017 - May 2018, Online

Accepted in “Google Developer Challenge” Scholarship and “One million Arab” Program on Udacity platform.

Full Stack Web Developer

Feb 2018 - May 2018

  • Web development with Python.
  • Full stack developmente Foundations.
  • Version Control
Front-End Web Developer

Nov 2017 - Feb 2018

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
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Intern Back-End Developer
ExcelCode

Sep 2017 - Dec 2017, Cairo,Egypt

ExcelCode company is responsible for software and web development solutions.

Responsibilities:
  • Django back-End developer .
  • Testing indivadual functions and fix them.
  • Deliver client needs in web development.

Education

Ahmed Esmat expermintal language school
2014-2016
Secondary School.
Communication and Electronics Department.
2016-2022
Faculty of Engineering, Helwan university.

Projects

Spamurai
Team Leader Sept 2021 - Aug 2022

Email Anti-spammer - spam security solution.This is Research and development (R&D) project aim to find solution to prevent or less the interaction of users with any harmful emails.

Auxilio
Control-Team leader Jun 2018 - Present

Participate and compete to design robot can help disabled/old people to grab thing remotly by following line.

Achievements

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