Saad Mudassir
GRC Analyst | Cybersecurity | SOC Automation | Risk & Compliance
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About
Results-driven Cybersecurity undergraduate with hands-on expertise in Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), SOC automation, threat intelligence, and incident response. Experienced in conducting ISO 27001 internal audits, developing risk registers, gap analyses, and security control frameworks. Proficient in designing automated security workflows and AI-driven threat mitigation pipelines.
Familiar with AWS Cloud security services including IAM, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and CloudTrail for cloud-native monitoring and compliance. Adept at aligning security operations with regulatory standards including ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST CSF, HIPAA, CIS Controls etc.
Experience
Project Collaborator – SOC Automation at SNSKIES (Pvt) Ltd (2025-08 – Present)
- Engineered an end-to-end SOC automation pipeline that collects and normalizes logs and alerts from distributed Wazuh agents across the monitored environment.
- Built real-time security dashboards to visualize threat data, alert trends, and incident timelines for analyst review and executive reporting.
- Integrated OpenCTI for automated threat intelligence enrichment, correlating IOCs with MITRE ATT&CK TTPs and external threat feeds to improve detection fidelity.
- Developed an automated playbook engine that generates structured JSON response playbooks and Python mitigation scripts to contain and remediate identified attacks with minimal analyst intervention.
Cybersecurity Intern at SNSKIES (Pvt) Ltd (2025-07 – 2025-08)
- Contributed to SOC automation integrating Wazuh, OpenCTI, Shuffle, n8n, TheHive, and Cortex for alert enrichment and orchestrated response.
- Designed automated workflows for threat intelligence correlation, incident triage, and mitigation playbook execution.
Teaching Assistant – Information Security at FAST-NUCES (2025-09 – 2026-01)
- Assisted in delivering core Information Security curriculum; designed practical assignments reinforcing secure programming and security principles.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity – FAST – NUCES, Islamabad, Pakistan (2022-08)
