Afgan Sharifov

Lead Information Security Specialist

Baku, Azerbaijan

afgan@sharifoff.com

+994773334647

Skills

Cloud Computing: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure

Application Security: Source code management, CI/CD Pipeline, Application security

Information Security: Incident Response, Vulnerability Assessment, Monitoring, Cyber Threat Intelligence, System Integration

Programming / Scripting: C#, Python, Scripting

Languages

Azerbaijani

English

Work Experience

Lead Information Security Specialist / Veyseloglu Group of Companies

Oct 2022 - Current

•Integrate information systems with SIEM - OS’s, routers, switches, firewalls, azure cloud services. Build rules, reports on SIEM.
•Data Loss Prevention (DLP): Configuring policies - file/folder classification, create dictionaries, configuring fingerprints, configuring policies, creating discovery policies - mail discovery, file discovery. Monitoring DLP activities.
•Create web applications with AWS services (S3, EC2, CloudFront, WAF, Route53).
•Network security - working with PaloAlto firewalls.
•Endpoint security - working with Cortex XDR.
•Applicatgion security - working with WAF, vulnerability scanners, SAST, DAST, SCA, IAST tools.
•Data security - working with Forcepoint DLP.
•Identity and Access Management
•Email security - working with Microsoft office365
•Cloud secuirty - protecting Azure and AWS services.
•Threat Intelligence (TI)

Information Security Specialist / State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Oct 2019 - Oct 2022

•Integrating information systems with SIEM - windows OS’s, Linux distros, routers, switches. Creating rules, reports, building dashboards on SIEM. Monitoring OS, network, database logs.
•Security Onion open source SIEM for monitoring.
•Built syslog-ng log servers/clients to collect/forward logs from Linux distros, network devices and forward to SIEM.
•IDS: Detecting malicious activities from Linux distros, network devices.
•Honeypots to evade attackers access to servers.

Help Desk / Neqsicahan Holding

Oct 2018 - Aug 2019

•Built websites from templates.
•Help end users to troubleshoot PC problems.
•Format PCs, configure printers, configure modems.
•Network cabeling

Full Stack Developer(Internship) / ATL Tech

Oct 2018 - Aug 2019

Built Real Estate web application on .Net framework backed with C#, database with Microsoft SQL, front with HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

Education

Baku Engineering University

Sep 2016 - Feb 2018

IT Management(MBA)