Waqas Ahmed Farooqi

WAQAS AHMED FAROOQI Certified Ethical Hacker Phone: - E-mail:--PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE Seeking a position in an organization that provides opportunities for professional advancement and growth. CURRENT INTERESTS Web application penetration testing, network penetration testing and information security audit. CERTIFICATIONS Cybrary (2017) 1. Cross Site Scripting (License: SC-c34e1480c8-d2c74d) 2. SQL Injection (License: SC-c34e1480c8-30a954) 3. Injection Flaws (License: SC-c34e1480c8-bf414b) 4. Web App Security Fundamentals (License: SC-c34e1480c8-b85e56) 5. Web Application Penetration Testing (License: C-c34e1480c8-1d0c451) 6. Nessus Fundamentals (License: SC-c34e1480c-) EC-Council (2014) 1. Certified Ethical Hacker (Certificate No: ECC-) EDUCATION Masters in Information Security (2015) Institute : Military College of Signals (MCS), NUST, Pakistan GPA : 3.8 B.S.C Electrical Engineering (2009) Institute : University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Taxila, Pakistan Grade : A+ (82%) WORK EXPERIENCE HorizonTech, Pakistan – Research Officer, July 2010- till date  Penetration testing of numerous government and private organizations of Pakistan.  Penetration testing of Air Force LTE Infrastructure.  Security and performance evaluation of firewalls and routers.  POC of anti-DDoS solutions.  Security evaluation of smart cards, link encryptors, desktop encryptors, PSTN/VOIP secure phones, secure USBs, secure email solutions and IP anonmyzers etc.  Network backdoor analysis of smart phones.  Development of various hardware and software solutions.  Conducting cyber security trainings.  Standards: OWASP, PCI DSS, ISO 270001, NIST FIPS 140-2, Common Criteria, ISO 7816, Global platform GP2.1.1, PKCS15 Waqas Ahmed Faroouqi Resume Upwork –Freelancer, Jan 2015 – till date  Numerous penetration testing assignments of banks, hospitals etc. including Maiwand bank Afghanistan, Oakvile data center Canada etc.  Penetration testing of hundreds of websites around the globe.  Worked for Canadian company Hacker4Lease.com  Risk assessment of various organizations.  Hacking videos creation for Udemy clients.  Deployed RCS Galileo 9.6 hacking software.  Online cyber security instructor.  Made IT security policies for various organizations.  Made documentation for GENAIN NAC software.  Cyber security content writer for websites.  Creating manuals for CEH Labs.  Made questionnaires for various cyber security certifications i.e. CISSP, CISM etc.  Written complete master thesis on "Cyber Security of Pakistan" (CASE University, Pakistan).  Written complete master thesis on "IOT Security" (Lancaster University, UK).  reference: upwork.com/freelancers/~01a36ab96760a363b2 Nayatel, Pakistan – Network Support Engineer, February 2010 – to April 2010  Basic training of networks (switch, routers, firewalls, VPN).  Management and troubleshooting of DSL network infrastructure of ISP. Social Media Activities  Running a channel on YouTube with name EasyNetwork (www.youtube.com/channel/UC8acBIOMvv5uBR7DpIKEkgg).  Running a Facebook page with name “Cyber News Pakistan” (web.facebook.com/CyberNewsPakistan). RELEVANT SKILLS  Penetration Testing: Nessus, OpenVas, Acunetix, Netsparker, Armitage, OWASP ZAP, Nmap, Metasploit, CANVAS, Hping3, Nslookup, Advanced IP scanner, Wireshark, tcpdump, Kali Linux, pfSense  Cloud Computing: Open source cloud platforms (CloudStack, Openstack)  Programming: C, C++, C#  Network designing and troubleshooting skills. PERSONAL DETAILS Father Name : Saghir Ahmed Faroouqi NIC :- PEC Number : ELECT/26760 Date of Birth : 07/01/1986 Postal Address : 44-G, St- 7, Jahangir Road, Rajput Colony, Rawalpindi, Pakistan Languages Known : Urdu, English Waqas Ahmed Faroouqi Resume