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Ahmed A.AA

Ahmed A.

Senior Industrial Cybersecurity Engineer

€800/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 2 hours

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About Ahmed

Industrial cybersecurity expert with 10 years of experience, specializing in OT detection & response and recognized for delivering tangible results.

I have supported leading French and international organizations in building their OT SOCs, primarily in the energy and critical infrastructure sectors.

My experience covers both offensive and defensive cybersecurity strategies for industrial environments, as well as compliance with IEC 62443.

Nozomi Networks, Splunk, Cortex XSOAR, Darktrace, Crowdstrike, Microsoft Sentinel, Google Chronicle, Mandiant, Claroty, ESXI, Fortinet, Cisco
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Arabic

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • ENGIE SA
    OT Cyber Architect & N3 OT Analyst
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    January 2025 - Today (1 year and 5 months)
    Paris, France
    Technical expertise in the BUILD and RUN phases of OT detection at the Engie group level:
    • BUILD: Definition of the strategy and architecture design for collecting data from industrial sites and routing it to the SOC;
    • RUN: Implementation of OT detection rules on SPLUNK SIEM + Nozomi Vantage, management of N3 tickets on CORTEX XSOAR, incident investigation. Use of various tools (Crowdstrike EDR, Proofpoint, Zscaler, etc.);

    • Fine-tuning: Collaborative work with industrial sites to define OT-specific detection rules.
  • PARIS AEROPORT
    Industrial Cybersecurity Architect
    AVIATION AND AEROSPACE
    August 2023 - January 2025 (1 year and 5 months)
    Paris, France
    Technical expertise in network & system architecture for industrial information systems:
    • Inventory: Mapping of approximately 100 ISIs (industrial information systems) on various airport platforms using Nozomi industrial network probes and other brands;
    • Architecture: Creation of architecture diagrams for the mapped ISIs and modeling in a virtualized environment;
    • Incident Management: Analysis and investigation of alerts related to IT/OT incidents detected by industrial network probes;
    • Operational: Support for the definition/integration of IT services adapted to OT (Bastion solution, log management, protection tools, etc.);
    • Cyber-resilience: Assistance in designing a cyber-resilience strategy and actions for IoT;
    • PoC: Technical demonstrator for IoT cyber-resilience solutions.
  • Veolia
    IT/OT Cyber Consultant
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    September 2022 - July 2023 (10 months)
    Paris, France
    Technical expertise for remediation and the implementation of solutions adapted to the industrial environment:
    - Cyber Resilience OT: Inventory of OT assets, development of PLC backup script (SOFREL) and procedure, realization of PoC
    for PLC hardening, online/offline backup, BCP/DRP, drafting of Cyber OT technical documents;
    - Cyber IT: AD remediation, study and implementation of 3-tier architecture, automate backup script, review of Fortigate
    and Mikrotik firewall rules, Windows/Linux hardening, Audit and review of architecture and network fl ow diagram,
    vulnerability test, writing Windows hardening procedure, deployment of AD audit tool.

    Support for international CISOs and technical assistance to operational staff for Cyber needs.

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Education

  • Master Manager of Information Systems and Robotics, Cybersecurity
    CFI Montigny (IMERIR)
    2019
    Master Manager des Systèmes Informatiques et Robotiques, Cybersécurité
  • Professional Bachelor's Degree in Robotics
    IUT de Cachan
    2017
    Licence Professionnelle de Robotique

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