my name is Muneeb Imran Shaikh
Specialized in Data PrivacyAI GovernanceInformation SecurityLaw & Data
About Me! ✌️
Muneeb is an Information Security, Data Privacy, AI Governance Consultant with a forte in Strategy, Program development, Governance and compliance. Based in Middle East region, he has worked with different clients from financial, governmental and telecommunication sector to help them in developing and implementing Cybersecurity and Privacy program in accordance with their regulatory, legal and compliance requirements.
He has contributed with his knowledge and expertise through various writings, podcasts, policy reviews, conference appearances.
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Bachelors in Electronics Engineering – PAF Karachi Institute of Economics & Technology – Pakistan.
this section provides a summary of Muneeb’s experience, for details please download the Resume.
• Established Data Privacy Unit, its governance and operating model in alignment with requirements of KSA Personal Data Protection Law & NDMO Personal Data Protection Standard.
• Developed Privacy policy, privacy notice and other governance frameworks to operationalize the data privacy function.
• Developed the Privacy by Design and Default Framework in alignment with ISO 27701 requirements and Privacy by Design Workbook to embed Privacy requirements into SDLC.
• Conducted Detailed Privacy by Design Training for organizational staff with target audience of Product Management, IT Development and Information Security.
• Established Records of Processing Activities for all personal data processing activities within SIMAH.
• Established guidelines for determining Legal basis for Processing Personal Data.
• Conducted Legitimate Interests Assessment for relevant processing activities
• Developed Personal Data Processing Agreements and devised Privacy Legal clauses to be incorporated within legal contracts.
• Conducted Privacy Awareness & Training Workshops.
• Provided Advisory services provided to the clients from diverse sectors that were in the planning and design phase for Cybersecurity Establishment and for Data Management Office Establishment.
• Conducted Gap Assessments in line with the requirements of KSA National Cybersecurity Authority, Saudi Central Bank Cybersecurity Framework and NDMO to help customers understand their gaps and the areas of non-compliance.
• Proposed Cybersecurity Services Development and high-level implementation roadmap along with budgetary estimations and human resource requirements clients from public and private sector in KSA.
• Have Proposed Operating Models for cybersecurity services establishment within client’s organization.
• Establishment of Cybersecurity Directorate for a client including its vision, mission 3-year strategic roadmap, operating model, and other supporting frameworks.
• Planned, Established, Managed the entire Cyber Threat Intelligence Function from Governance & Risk aspect right down to tertiary aspects to ensure Threat Intelligence feeds are optimized and consumed for overall business benefit and providing clear understanding of Threat Landscape faced by organization.
• Created workflows between Threat Intelligence & Risk to aid their tasks in regard to risk scenarios validation.
• Provided clear understanding of how Underground Cyber Market operates, it’s various Cyber threat actors & their motivations and used this knowledge & understanding to carry out Risks Assessment Exercises to define Risk Scenarios and challenges to Business Objectives Operations.
• Established a practice to Monitor, Measure & Report on SOC KPIs & KRIs, essential to reach SAMA Maturity L3 & L4.
• Conducted various Internal Training sessions on “Operationalizing Threat Intelligence”.
• Prepared Annual Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2019 presented to Senior Executive Management & Cybersecurity Steering Committee.
• Ensured that Information Security requirements were addressed in the system and software engineering lifecycle.
• Gained and utilized invaluable technical knowledge to develop Contingency Plans. Led the testing and validation of Contingency plans prior to Ramadan or Hajj to ensure relevancy and appropriateness.
• Ensured that development and implementation engineers adhered to complete Software Development Lifecycle principles specifically performing User Acceptance testing, QA testing and regression testing.
• Supported third party audit process to ensure no revenue leakages of Business Solutions provided by Huawei with subscription base of 10M and revenue averaging at 1M SAR/month.
• Generated detailed KPI reports for designing and developing technical maintenance audits and procedures.
• Conducted training and organized guidance sessions for Front Office & Peers working under horizontal teams to effectively handle responsibilities as First Respondents in an Incident.
• Identified and insulated Network and System’s faults, optimized configuration backup mechanisms efficiency.