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Muhammad Farhan Bin Asmadi

Muhammad Farhan Bin Asmadi

Senior Information Security Analyst
Sepang

Summary

As a Senior Information Security Analyst at RHB Banking Group, I apply multiple certifications and skills in security event analysis to protect the organization's data and systems from cyber threats. I have over seven years of experience in the information security field, working with various clients and industries, such as Proton, RHB Group and AKATI Sekurity.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications

Work History

Senior Information Security Analyst

RHB Group
05.2022 - Current
  • Serve as a technical point of escalation and provide mentoring for Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts.
  • Maintain and operate associated security platforms (SIEM, XDR).
  • Work to identify critical event data for additional analysis and escalation as appropriate.
  • Collaborate with technical teams and other provider staff as required to mitigate security threats and respond to incidents.
  • Work closely with others to develop and enhance security monitoring, incident response plans and playbooks
  • Seek to continuously improve event correlation and alerting processes and use cases to detect potential incidents


Senior Executive

Proton
11.2021 - 04.2022
  • Lead the analysis and investigation of information security events in a 24X7 SOC environment to immediately detect, verify, and respond swiftly to cyber threats, and remove false positive.
  • Responsible for investigating incidents, analysing attack methods, researching new defense techniques and tools, developing security policy, and documenting procedures for SOC.
  • Maintain baselines for secure configuration and operations
  • Malware analysis and other attack analysis to extract indicators of compromise. Perform data security event correlation between various systems.

SOC Analyst Tier 2

AKATI Sekurity
10.2019 - 10.2021
  • Serve as a technical point of escalation and provide mentoring for L1 Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts.
  • Add Context to the incident to understand the behavior, analysing data from multiple tools and data sources.
  • Manage and fine tune SIEM use cases.
  • Participates to recurrent meeting with client as the technical referent.

SOC Analyst Tier 1

AKATI Sekurity
10.2017 - 10.2019
  • Continuously monitor the security alerts queue.
  • Monitors health of client security sensors and SIEM infrastructure.
  • Collects data and context necessary to initiate level 2 escalation.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Communications Engineering

International Islamic University Malaysia
Malaysia
04.2001 -

Skills

  • SIEM analyst : Splunk, DNIF, Arcsight, Stellar Cyber

  • Endpoint Protection & Response : Cylance & Panda Adaptive Defense

  • Email Protection : Avanan

  • Extrahop XDR

Certification

Splunk Core Certified User

Timeline

Senior Information Security Analyst

RHB Group
05.2022 - Current

Senior Executive

Proton
11.2021 - 04.2022

SOC Analyst Tier 2

AKATI Sekurity
10.2019 - 10.2021

SOC Analyst Tier 1

AKATI Sekurity
10.2017 - 10.2019

Bachelor of Engineering - Communications Engineering

International Islamic University Malaysia
04.2001 -
Muhammad Farhan Bin Asmadi Senior Information Security Analyst