Senior Cyber Security Consultant
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My Name is Manaba Motsai(IT Security Consultant), I work to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of an organization's data and systems.
My expertise and industry knowledge enable me to help businesses build robust security frameworks and establish strong defenses against cyber threats, ultimately protecting their operations and reputation. I collaborate with IT teams and stakeholders when required to implement security solutions such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, encryption protocols, and access controls.
2011/02 – 2017/06
Johannesburg,
•Maintain backup tapes. Support of all VIP Users, Desktop & Printer installation,
creating and setup User profile.
•Ran\support whole Jetpark site with 400 users and remote support for 5 Africa sites.
Daily management of assets, face to face customer relation, arrange local vendor if physical intervention is required for Africa sites .
•1st Level support for all network devices, Escalates & tracking incident to vendors according to Sla.
•Data Center First line support.
2008/10 – 2010/02
Boksburg, South Africa
•Business site support
•Maintenance of printers and scanners
•Software installation and upgrade
•Maintain configuration of all production machines
•Creating site images and backups
2017/07 – 2017/12
Johannesburg,
Manage a team during migration of different sites which includes
-Rolling out Thin client .
-New user account creation and merger with old profile, user profile data copying and account migration.
2018/01 – 2023/01
Johannesburg,
Security & Wintel Engineer
Promoting user awareness of information security practices
Communicate & Partnered with business for IT Audits task, curate audit findings,
produce recommendations\mitigations and make sure findings are closed within SLA.
Collaborate with risk partners through Information Security Deliverables
Manage risk Dashboard and co-ordinate with global compliance\senior management for approval.
Ensuring Systems and process are met within our security standards by Building a strong partnership with peer technology groups between AFRI & EMEA region.
Incidents, investigation, and Mitigations in Africa region.
Undertake Incident analysis, raise ticket, tracking, recording and response with ability to operate as incident manager.
Continuous vulnerability scans and vulnerability mitigations.
Threat hunting and incident investigations for all security threats reported from Siem.
Research attacks and techniques reported by SIEM (Monitoring tool).
consulting with System owners regarding any issues(vulnerabilities) and oversee all open ticket are manage within SLA.
Weekly & Monthly reports to all system owners (non-standard devices, forbidden application, unauthorized devices).
Monitoring, assess and report all IT Security events.
Provide guidance and guidelines for intrusion prevention and detection on the network.
Interface with IT stakeholders for all IT security Incident. Documents issues and risk,
escalated to system owners.
Escalate all violation to Regional Director .
Making Sure all Key Control (KPI’s) are met within our agreed target.
Manage individual project in AFRI region to be compliant with Global Standards.
Advise and recommend technical security direction with support and whitelisting of applications.
2023/02 – present Senior IT Security Consultant
•Cyber Strategy and Planning,
•Security Risk Management and Incident Response
•Execution of cyber security programs( Awareness, Pentesting, vulnerability scan and solutions)
•Manage team resource as per assigned task\ project.
•Cyber Security Maturity Continuous Assessment
•Planning of cybersecurity engagements, Execution of cyber security programs and solutions
2023/06 Certified Information Systems Security Professional( CISSP)
2019 – 2022 Cisco Certified Network Associate Security (CCNA Security)
2019 – 2022 Certified Ethical Hacker ( CEH)
Torque-it
2015 – 2021 Cisco Certified Network Professional ( CCNP)
2019 – 2019 CompTIA Security+
2019 – 2019 CompTIA Security Analytics Professional( CSAP)
2012 – 2012 CompTIA A+
2012 – 2012 CompTIA N+
2012 – 2012 National Certificate IT System support (NQF Level 5)
2010 – 2010 Microsoft Certified IT Professional( MCITP)
PC Training and Business College
2019 – 2019 CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+)
2019 – 2019 CompTIA Security+
