Muchiri George

Dedicated and highly skilled Cybersecurity Controls Architect with over 3 years of experience in designing and implementing robust cybersecurity controls and risk management strategies. Recognized for consistently delivering innovative solutions that fortify organizational defenses, protect critical assets, and ensure compliance with industry regulations. I have good experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams to align cybersecurity initiatives with business objectives.

• Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing: Ability to identify and assess vulnerabilities in systems and applications, followed by conducting penetration tests to determine the exploitability of these vulnerabilities.

• Incident Response: Experience in creating and executing incident response plans, including detection, containment, eradication, and recovery from security incidents.

• Security Auditing and Compliance: Knowledge of compliance standards and regulations relevant to financial and information security industry, such as GDPR, HIPAA, or PCI DSS, and experience in auditing systems and processes for compliance.

• Security Awareness Training: Design and deliver security awareness training programs to educate employees and stakeholders about cybersecurity best practices.

• Security Architecture: Designing and implementing secure architectures for systems and networks, considering defense-in-depth strategies.

• Software Development: A skilled software programmer with experience coding requirements as specified in the related design document, updating the requirements in the design, code components on a need basis and creating and executing the designs for small sets of new functionality as part of a software project.
• IT Technical support: Experienced in monitoring and maintaining an organization's computer systems and networks through installation and configuration of computer systems, diagnosing hardware and software faults and solving technical and applications problems.
• Project Management: Highly experienced in keeping abreast of project changes and progress developments by recommending IT strategies, policies and procedures, coordinating project resources and maintaining the organization's effectiveness and efficiency.
• Website Development: Experienced in handling website administration, development and maintenance.

• IT Management: Vastly experienced in ensuring the overall management of ICT functions, implementation of ICT operations, infrastructure and information systems integration. 
• Systems Administration: Successfully performed daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes and performing daily backup operations.
• Operations Management: Experienced in improving and setting up operational system processes and best practices within the company, communicating technology strategy, supervising system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency.
• Personnel Management: Excelled in leading personnel where I successfully organize them, training and supporting them to ensure they align themselves with the company’s objectives.
• Database Administration: Acquired experience in ensuring the availability of the database when needed by carrying out frequent maintenance and troubleshooting. 
• Leadership skills: Greatly exploited leadership skills with the ability to provide leadership and strategic direction to the organization, guiding it to achieve its strategic mission, ensuring that staff is all motivated towards effective service delivery and achieving the organization’s greatest potential.
• Communication and Interpersonal Skills: Ability to communicate verbally and non-verbally by being effective and concise when giving presentations to audiences.
• Creativity: Experienced in applying engineering principles to develop solutions within the built environment by applying innovations.
• Flexibility and Problem Solving Abilities: Can work in a busy environment by maintaining calm under pressure and thinking through any possible threats that can occur in a system and planning for them before they happen.

• Masters in Information System Security- Strathmore University; 2018 to 2021.
• Bachelor of Business Information Technology- Strathmore University; 2014 to 2017.