hi, i'm Ali Syed
An Information Security, Risk Management, and GRC practitioner with Technical Prowess that acts as a Catalyst to overcome challenges from technical and non-technical teams within an enterprise. Skilled in building and growing high performing teams that deliver on time and with quality.
I have a proven track record in tech leadership, team scaling, rapid growth environments, acquisition growth, holistic technology consulting, digital transformation, and building quick profitability with scale. I have worked with organizations to help transition into a more value-driven agile culture. I have served clients and companies from startup to global with teams around the block to around the world.
I am a Coach and a Mentor (currently at UC Berkeley SkyDeck Accelerator) ; experienced in Complex Technical Program Management, DevSecOps, CyberSecurity, Compliance Management, SOC Teams, Cloud, Product Management, and IT. My purview has included startups, private equity, and Fortune 1000 companies.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisyedx/
For Angel Investments or Sending Startup Decks please contact me at my email below.
a little about me
I AM currently ASSIST startups in a vCISO capacity with a hands-on PROGRAM project-based approach in GRC, DEVSECOPS, IT SEcurity, Privacy, vendor management, rfp sales support, COmpliance, and digital transformation
I move your cybersecurity strategy ahead, proactively identify gaps in distributed systems, and build comprehensive cybersecurity strategies that mitigate risk.
Contact me to build an enterprise-level information security program and align business objectives with your unique risk and exposure.
AS an angel investor, i Invest in early stage startups focused on Infrasturcture/Cloud technology, Information Security, and Bio-Med technology
HANDS-ON CONSULTING HELP:
vCISO | vCTO| INFOSEC PROGRAM MANAGEMENT | STARTUP INFORMATION SECURITY CONSULTING
DEVOPS | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY | CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE | SOC2 - HIPAA - ISO27001 COMPLIANCE
CERTIFIED IN:
giac information security professional (gisp), certified information systems security professional (cissp)
agile coach (icp-ACC), SCrum master (SMC), IT Project management (AMA), Team Kanban Practitioner, safe 4 agilist, ITIL foundation level
Compliance:
HIPAA, SOC2, ISO27001, CSA STAR, GDPR, CCPA, NIST, FISMA, & FedRAMP
Compliance TOOLS:
DRATA, VANTA, HYPERCOMPLY, trustpage, NINJIO, KNOWBE4, CURRICULA
Cloud:
AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack, & Data Centers
AGILE & SAAS TOOLS:
Jira, Confluence, StatusPage, BitBucket, SalesForce, ServiceNow, Nagios, Zendesk
WRIKE, SMARTSHEETS, Microsoft Office Suite, Visio, PowerBI, Power Apps, Sharepoint, Pendo
DATA TOOLS:
Oracle, Exasol, MySQL, Vectorwise, SQL Server, Memcached, Access, Mongo, Redis, Snowflake, hightouch
ElasticSearch, SUMOLOGIC, DATADOG, GrayLogs, Splunk, Jenkins, Ansible, Bamboo, TerraForm, GIT, Docker
SeCURITY TOOLS:
SNORT, NESSUS, BURP SUITE, SIEMONSTER, VPN, OSSEC, BARRACUDA, CISCO, SNYK, WATCHGUARD, FORTINET, FORTIFY
BUG CROWD, HACKER ONE
Long-Term Vision Creation
Team Building, People Development & Mentoring
Implementation of Roadmap Development
Business Process Reengineering
Client Relationship Management
AGILE, SCRUM, Waterfall Methodologies
IT Policies, Processes & Procedure
Business Case Development
Capital Expenditure Project Leadership
Budget Forecasting, Planning & Management
let's discuss your pain
