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Amer Jarada

Melbourne,VIC

Summary

Experienced cybersecurity consultant with 5+ years of professional experience delivering security solutions across IT/OT environments. Proven track record in assessing and enhancing OT/ICS security architectures, aligning with standards such as IEC 62443, NIST CSF, and AESCSF. Skilled in identifying and responding to security incidents, developing and implementing security policies and procedures, performing vulnerability assessments, and conducting IT/OT risk assessments.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior OT/ICS Security Consultant

SIS
01.2024 - Current
  • Developed and delivered structured cybersecurity roadmaps, ensuring risk-minimised, business-aligned solution deployment.
  • Designed and implemented automated Essential Eight assessment tools to standardise and streamline maturity evaluations.
  • Led policy, process, and standards reviews to maintain compliance with evolving regulations and best practices.
  • Assessed cybersecurity architectures against IEC 62443 and industry frameworks, identifying gaps and improvement opportunities.
  • Engineered physical and OT security architectures and management systems to enhance protection and resilience.
  • Created architecture patterns and conducted solution risk assessments to strengthen industrial security posture.
  • Delivered target state OT security designs informed by asset discovery, risk assessments, and AESCSF gap analysis.

Cybersecurity Consultant

EY
06.2021 - 10.2023
  • Conducting IT/OT Cybersecurity program assessments based on various frameworks e.g. NIST, ISO, etc..
  • Conducting detailed Cybersecurity assessments including but not limited to Hardware security, Network Security, etc.
  • Compromise assessment (IOCs) using various tools e.g. Wireshark, Redline, etc..
  • Identifying security hygiene issues, providing security recommendations and highlighting risks and exposures.
  • SIEM Solution audit alongside with recommendations based on client's requirements
  • Regulations mapping e.g. GDPR, e-Privacy, etc..
  • Performed risk analyses to identify appropriate security countermeasures.

IT Security Specialist

IBM
03.2020 - 06.2021
  • MSIEM Threat Monitoring Security Analyst incident response, investigation and reporting for over 10 customers per session.
  • Identify, Assess, and mitigate security Threats in Real-Time.
  • Conducting deep investigations and analyzing Raw Data collected from endpoint protections e.g. Proofpoint, Carbon Black, etc.
  • Recommending appropriate tuning to client's environment to clear unreal threats.
  • Whitelist legitimate traffic.
  • Investigated and resolved incidents of unauthorized access to sensitive information
  • Analyzed network traffic and system logs to detect malicious activities

Education

Bachelor Degree - Biomedical Engineering

Wroclaw University of Science And Technology
Poland
2020

Skills

  • OSI model, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, Purdue Model
  • Essential Eight (E8), IEC 62443, NIST CSF, AESCSF, ISO
  • IronNet, Fedelis, McAfee, Redline, Nozomi, Qradar, Wireshark,
  • Azure, Microsoft Office, Windows OS
  • JSON, Android Studio, JavaScript, R
  • Risk Assessments, incident response, threat detection

Accomplishments

  • CompTIA Cysa+
  • Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals (SC-900)
  • Mapping IT Defence-In-Depth Security Solutions to ICS - CISA
  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

Timeline

Senior OT/ICS Security Consultant

SIS
01.2024 - Current

Cybersecurity Consultant

EY
06.2021 - 10.2023

IT Security Specialist

IBM
03.2020 - 06.2021

Bachelor Degree - Biomedical Engineering

Wroclaw University of Science And Technology

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