A little history

A little history: I’ve been working in IT since about 2001, mostly working in server side of things, enterprise services, information security as well as some special projects work. Like most people I kind of fell into doing some security work while working at my previous employer. After diving into vulnerability scanning and some cryptographic work the technical side of security really began to interest me. I’d always been security conscious (that’s how I got the unfortunate nickname – Fence) and after a while doing security on the side, I decided to re-focus my career away from data center server side of technologies with a side-helping of Cryptography/Vulnerability testing, and to full-time security. Not an easy transition, but worth every hour spent learning.

After attending some courses (of varying quality) and get some nice shiny security qualifications (MCSE – Security and CISSP) I moved back into the 9-9 life here in Pakistan. I’m currently working as a Sr. Manager Systems (FCAPS, ISMS) and spend most of my time doing information security testing of internal systems, or for external clients. I’m studying various things currently, No point listening them all, it seems to change on a weekly basis. There’s always something new to learn after all.

I’ve been lucky enough to gather vast experience in building secure data center services over the last 4 years in the industry. I’m the first Pakistani who demonstrated his ECC based cryptographic skills to the Govt, of Pakistan.