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Abin Marydasan

Information Security and Cyber SecurityExpert

$400/day
Dubai City, AE
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Abin

I bring over 15 years of experience supporting leading organizations in achieving and maintaining compliance with global frameworks and regulations, including SOC 2, NIST, ISO 27001, GDPR, PDPL, ADHICS, and HIPAA. My experience spans multiple industries such as healthcare, banking, fintech, insurance, real estate, oil & gas, service providers, and AI-driven organizations.

In these roles, I have led end-to-end information security programs, overseeing governance of security KPIs, enterprise risk management, and IT internal audits. I have worked closely with senior management to communicate security risks, business impacts, and mitigation strategies, while also managing budgets and optimizing costs for security initiatives.

Additionally, I have been responsible for incident response and event management, as well as overseeing risk exposure, data management, data protection, and privacy programs to ensure robust organizational security posture.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Dubai City (up to 50km)

Experience

  • MBG CORPORATE SERVICE
    Assistant Manager – Client Based VCISO - Technology and Risk Advisory
    March 2024 - March 2025 (1 year)
    Experience in handling the UAE reputed clients in UAE as a Virtual CISO, Strategizing the organization governance and information security program. Creating and Reviewing the policies and procedures for Information security program in the organization. Governing the entire program by managing a team Cyber Security Red Team assessment, Cloud Assessment. Implementing the policy, process documents for BCMS and perform through BIA by understanding the business critical process. Restructuring the process as per the UAE regulatory best practice following the NCEMA, NESA, ADHICS, CB UAE IA, and compliance. Training the internal Business development team and the marketing team about the technology services. Creating the proposals and communicating with the client on our services. etc.
    Handled Clients in UAE Dubai Insurance, Mubadala M42, Mawarid Finance, Borouge, etc.
  • INSPIRA ENTERPRISE
    Information Security Consultant
    January 2020 - January 2024 (4 years)
    Multiple UAE project delivery manager, managing start to finish, including planning, scheduling, risk management, resource allocation, communication with stakeholders. Developed the Risk management framework NIST, ADHICS and ADGM compliance regulations. Penetration testing, application vulnerability assessment, network vulnerability assessment and exploitations, offensive security, Configuration Review, Application End to End Review, O365 audit, and Application compliance audit. Develop and implement Information Security Framework that includes policies, standards and processes based on international standards like ISO27001, ISO 27701, HIPPA as well as legal and regulatory requirements (e.g. NESA, GDPR, ADGM, ADHICS) ensuring its policies and procedures are adopted. Customer-focused approach on consulting and advising to improvise their Information security controls, standards and process by ensuring business is not impacted. Define and implement clear success metrics to monitor and evaluate program performance, ensuring that outcomes align with intended objectives and goals. Handled Clients in UAE Emaar, NBF, xCube, Lulu Hypermarket, Orient Insurance, DFM, etc.
  • DIBS
    Information Security Officer
    January 2018 - January 2020 (2 years)
    Vulnerability and penetration testing for all regions Networks, Systems, Applications, ATM Terminals, Swayam Kiosk. Develop and implement programs aimed at teaching company staff about security protocols. Performed application security architecture review and provided the approved on the change request. Reporting the non-conformity of the products specifications with the ISO requirements. Understanding of cyber security risks and threats. ISO 27001 Vulnerability, SIEM Security Tools. Preparing Incident report of all critical findings closed the points as per policy Web application Security Assessment by OWASP 10, SANS Top 25. Test Methodology as Grey, White and Black Test approach with Proof of Concept of the attack. Following the approach quarterly scanning both Internal External Assets.

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Education

  • Ministry of Education.
  • Certified Ethical Hacking(CEH v9)
    Certified Ethical Hacking(CEH v9)

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