
Bassel Jabak
SOC & Service Delivery Manager
Salary / Daily rate
Freelance
Skills
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About me
Intro
Information Security Expert with 8+ years specializing in SOC operations and managed security services across global enterprises. Proven track record managing regional security implementations at CMA CGM and delivering cyber defense solutions at AXA Group. Expert in threat detection and MSSP coordination to strengthen your security posture.
Work experience
Senior Information Security Technical Officer - IMEA
CMA CGM
Oct 2024 - Present
2 years 1 month
Beirut, Lebanon
Senior Information Security Technical Officer – India, Middle East & Africa, oversee regional operational security implementation activities for a defined scope and ensure the correct implementation of Group policies across India, Middle East, and Africa transversely across CMA CGM group entities and subsidiaries. The main tasks will include: -Follow-up and assist on the implementation of cybersecurity policies, roadmaps, and projects on its scope. -Oversee the monitoring of security events, exceptions, and alerts of his scope to detect and respond to potential threats, supervision of the MSSP / IT providers -Work closely with cyber service lines to align security practices with the organization's overall security strategy. -Relay all cybersecurity information updates towards IT activities. -Work with IT teams to incorporate security standards and best practices into the design and implementation of systems and networks within the scope. -Facilitate the creation and prioritization of appropriate remediation plans following vulnerability management initiatives. -Oversee the security assessments and penetration tests on systems and applications to follow up on remediation measures. -Provide technical security updates and reports to Regional CISO on the security posture of the scope and ongoing security initiatives. -Identifying and reporting risks related to the information system in connection with incidents. -Monitoring risk reduction action plans -Ensure appropriate measurements are in place for efficiency of the service provided towards other lines of defense. -Oversee the implementation of security technologies and tools within the region. -Maintain KPIs by cyber-Process for each brand
Security Service Delivery Manager | SOC
AXA Group Operations
Dec 2022 - Dec 2024
2 years 1 month
Paris, France
-Provide central coordination between entities based on Europe and America, operations security teams and product managers on security products offered within Cyber Defense. -Support Product Manager to maintain security services to entities based on and resources capacity -Plan required to meet current and future performance requirements including identification of improvement plan and roadmap trends. -Produce and maintain a security service Catalogue and its contents in conjunction with security and Group IT framework -Improve the process for handling requests and incidents with the MSSP -In-depth knowledge of SOC operating processes to be the first point of contact for security experts from different entity in the world
Advens
Apr 2018 - Dec 2022
4 years 9 months
Paris, France
Security Operations Manager
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
1 year
Paris, France
-Facilitate the exchange between the customer and the Blue Team on the services -Participate in the continuous improvement of the monitoring plan and propose new rules to better cover the client's Information system -Analyze customer needs and adapt the service accordingly -Contribute to projects customer to improve the level of operational security -Help the client to integrate new sources of logs by exchanging with the internal teams to improve supervision
Cyber Security Analyst
Apr 2018 - Jan 2022
3 years 10 months
Lille Area, France
-Discover and qualify vulnerabilities affecting customer information systems -Detect abnormal behavior in an operational environment -Propose and implement a remediation plan adapted to the client's context and business risks -Restore all the results to the client, using a speech adapted to the profile of interlocutors -Participate daily in the improvement of techniques and rules for automatic detection of security incidents by feeding the technical and technological knowledge base (scenarios definition, rules implementation)
Data Analytics (End of studies Intern)
Claranet France
Nov 2017 - May 2018
7 months
Lille Area, France
Centralization of logs using the following technologies: -ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) -Beats and x-pack -Kafka -Securing end-to-end architecture to meet PCI DSS and ISO 27001 business needs
Scientific and Technological Project
Wavestone
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
2 months
Lille Area, France
-Identification of the most important risk scenarios through documentary studies -Identification of the logs related to the scenarios through documentary studies and real tests -Definition of the alert rules in the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) tool detecting the identified behaviors -Delivery of a summary presenting the scenarios, the corresponding logs and the defined ELK rules
Network Security Engineer (Intern)
Saint Joseph University of Beirut
May 2016 - Jul 2016
3 months
Lebanon, TN, USA
Hardening of Saint Joseph University's web server security so that present a check list for the Technology and Information Service to ensure the hardening they should work on the following parts: -Apache WEB Services / PHP -Open SSL - The Linux Operating System (Redhat)
Network Administrator (Intern)
New Technology Sarl
Apr 2015 - Jul 2015
4 months
Lebanon, TN, USA
Analysis of the needs of a customer who wants to deploy a network between these different sites Design and configure a network of 3 sites for a client with the implementation of Windows servers, Private Automatic Branch exchange (PABX), PC (S) and other equipment Troubleshooting that helps to determine the source of a technical problem and solve it
Education
IMT Nord Europe
Engineer's degree
2016 - 2018
3 years
Saint Joseph University of Beirut
Master's degree
2012 - 2016
5 years