
Ouafia HERMAN
Cybersecurity Consultant | ISO 27001 | GRC
Salaire / Taux journalier
Palma, Baléares, Espagne
Freelance
À distance uniquement
Expertises
Langues
À propos
Introduction
Expert en cybersécurité avec plus de 10 ans d'expérience dans les secteurs bancaire et e-commerce. Certifié ISO 27001 Lead Implementer, spécialisé dans la mise en place de systèmes de gestion de la sécurité de l'information (SMSI) et l'évaluation des risques IT. Accompagne les entreprises dans leur transformation sécuritaire avec une approche pragmatique alignée sur les normes internationales et les exigences réglementaires.
Expérience de travail
Cybersecurity consultant
FeelAgile
nov. 2023 - Présent
3 ans
Palma, Baléares, Espagne
As a Consultant, I have supported multiple companies in the implementation and management of their Information Security Management System (ISMS) in compliance with ISO 27001 or TISAX standards. - Conducting security assessments to evaluate the maturity level of information security, providing recommendations to improve security and compliance. - Performing risk assessments to identify, evaluate, and prioritize threats to the company, and proposed appropriate treatment plans. - Defining security policies and procedures. - Developing security controls and performance indicators to monitor the effectiveness of security measures and ensure continuous improvement. - Training and raising awareness among internal teams on best practices in information security. - Leading ISO 27001 certification initiatives: coordinated internal and external audits, managed non-conformities, and prepared for certification. - Collaborating with key stakeholders (CIO, CISO, operational teams) to ensure alignment of the ISMS with business objectives and regulatory requirements. - Monitoring regulatory and technological changes to continuously adapt cybersecurity practices. As Head of the Key Accounts Department: - Developing ISO 27001 and TISAX support methodologies for key accounts in both French and English. - Managing a team of cybersecurity consultants.
IT Risk Management & Compliance Consultant
onepoint
déc. 2021 - mai 2024
2 ans 6 mois
Bordeaux, France
- As part of TPRM (Third-Party Risk Management) team within the IT department, conducting risk assessments of IT projects using third parties. - Ensuring that the risk management activities and controls relating to third parties meet internal requirements and external regulations. With a particular focus on EBA (European Banking Authority) guidelines on outsourcing. - Assesssing risks across multiple domains such as cyber security, data privacy or business continuity including cloud computing risks and controls - Identifying which controls are in place and advising with appropriate controls to mitigate risks to the desired level. - Ongoing monitoring of a portfolio of critical outsourced services throughout the third-party relationship and adapting controls when new issues arise. - Contributing to improve the TPRM framework.
Risk Manager / Internal Controller / Auditor
Cdiscount
nov. 2019 - déc. 2021
2 ans 2 mois
Bordeaux, France
- Updating annual risk mapping of the company and presenting it to the executive management for better decision-making - Working with each business department to identify, assess, document and regularly review risks. Coaching these department to design and implement controls to mitigate risks. - Defining KRI (Key Risk Indicators) on critical processes to detect and minimise any adverse impacts to the company. - Raising staff awareness of risk management and leading a community of Internal Control representatives to better promote a strong and effective risk and control culture. - Implementing internal controls for processes that impact financial reporting to meet SOX requirements regarding information IT controls. - Developing and maintaining an internal control / audit framework. - Developing a PowerBI dashboard for Senior Management to monitor the first level controls and compliance rates. - Performing IT audits through interviews, testing and controls reperformance on strategic topics and formulating findings and recommendations. - Managing the work of consulting and auditing firms throughout the entire process.
La Banque Postale
oct. 2015 - déc. 2019
4 ans 3 mois
Bordeaux, France
IT Internal Controller
oct. 2017 - déc. 2019
2 ans 3 mois
Bordeaux, France
- Defining the annual second level control plan for IT department activities in accordance with banking regulations and best practices and standards. - Executing an internal control plan while raising employees awareness of risks. - Working in close collaboration with all IT teams to help improve their processes. - Overseeing processes to ensure that risks are properly managed. - Recommending appropriate action plans in order to remediate the identified weaknesses and monitoring the follow-up of these plans. - Formalising the results of controls and presenting conclusions to IT Senior Management. - Contributing to improve the overall control methodology.
IT Internal Auditor
oct. 2015 - oct. 2017
2 ans 1 mois
Paris, France
- Performing audit assignments to evaluate risk management systems and operational efficiency with a risk-based approach as part of a multidisciplinary team. - Executing thorough investigations in various IT topics. Using best practices such as ITIL, Cobit, Pmbok or ISO 27k standards, and assessing the related risks. - Evaluating the effectiveness of the governance, risk management and control processes, and recommending solutions to optimise these processes. - Presenting conclusions to auditees and,writing audit reports which include the development of clear, constructive, and actionable recommendations to address risks identified. - Supervising work of junior auditors. - Monitoring the follow-up of action plans. Examples of audit topics covered : audit of the governance of digital transformation projects, audit of IT production processes (incident, problem and change management), audit of outsourced services.
IT Application Manager / IT Project Manager
BNP Paribas
août 2013 - oct. 2015
2 ans 3 mois
Paris, France
- Managing a Business Intelligence application and supporting multiple teams to use the solution. - Ensuring the running of the applications in compliance with SLA. - Monitoring of corrective and upgrading maintenance in a continuous improvement process according to the PDCA cycle. - Managing projects of the BI experts department (certification projects for new versions of Oracle Essbase and SAP Business Objects) and implementation of a new BI service offer. - Definition of functional and technical specifications. - Monitoring the progress of the project and anticipating constraints in terms of costs, quality and deadlines. - Animation of project steering committees.
Gap year (WHV - Working Holiday Visa)
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mai 2012 - juil. 2013
1 an 3 mois
Melbourne Victoria, Australie
Professional experience in Melbourne with a daily practice of English, which helped me become fluent in this language.
Business Intelligence Consultant
Smile
févr. 2011 - mai 2012
1 an 4 mois
Paris, France
- Implementing business intelligence solutions for various customers. - Collecting requirements, writing functional and technical specifications. - Designing and developing ETL processes on Talend to successfully load data into data warehouse from several disparate source systems. - Creating business insights through data visualization solutions.
Intern within IT department
Prince of Songkla University
juil. 2010 - oct. 2010
4 mois
Phuket, Mueang Phuket, Province de Phuket 83000, Thaïlande
Skills: Analytical Skills · Information Technology
Intern within IT department
BNP Paribas Cardif
juil. 2008 - oct. 2008
4 mois
Paris, France
Inventory of IT equipment
Formation
ESIEA - École d'Ingénieur·e·s d'un numérique utile
Diplôme d'ingénieur
2006 - 2011
5 ans 2 mois
Licences et certifications
ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Implementer
Délivré le : mai 2024
Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)
Délivré le : janv. 2021
COBIT® 5 Foundation
Délivré le : mai 2018