BSides Islamabad

Asif is a Director at Deloitte Australia's cyber risk advisory practice. He is an experienced cyber security professional with more than 14 years of experience in leading and delivering enterprise class security solutions across a wide range of industries including financial services, energy and healthcare. Asif's core competencies are in Security Strategy Development, Security Architecture, Cloud Security, Application Security and Identity and Access Management. Asif is a SABSA certified security architect, CISSP, CRISC and AWS and Azure certified architect.

Dr. Fahim Abbasi is a Cybersecurity Researcher, Defender, and Innovator with over 10+ years of industrial research experience working for leading Cybersecurity product companies in the Network and Email security domain. Dr. Abbasi is currently working as a Sr. Research Scientist at Cisco Systems. He works on forward-looking research initiatives to develop leading-edge prototypes and intelligent algorithms to solve emerging challenges with Email scams like Advance-fee scams, Extortion, BEC, ATO, and Phishing for Cisco email detection technologies like CMD, CSE, and ESA. Prior to this, he worked as a Sr. Security Researcher in the Email Security team at Trustwave Spiderlabs on the MailMarshal product. He also worked as a Security Researcher in Fireye labs and Ebryx LLC. Dr. Abbasi also served as a lecturer at Massey University New Zealand and as a Visiting Faculty for Information security course at Information Technology University (ITU Punjab) Lahore. He has published his research in several industrial research blogs and in academic conferences and journals and has also been granted US patents.

With two IPOs & seven acquisitions Brian has helped build some of the most successful security companies in the world for 25+ years. He is a seasoned executive, board advisor, security company entrepreneur, author, and award-winning podcaster. After getting his start in security with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and later Bell Labs, Brian began the process of building security startups and taking multiple companies through successful IPOs and acquisitions including: Riptech, ArcSight, Imperva, McAfee, Solera Networks, Cylance, JASK, and Verodin. Brian has worked in over 50 countries across six continents. He authored the book Enemy at the Water Cooler and he co-authored Physical & Logical Security Convergence with former NSA Deputy Director William Crowell. He was featured in the cyberwar documentary 5 Eyes alongside General Michael Hayden, former NSA and CIA Director.

Brian has written for and been interviewed by industry and business press such as Bloomberg, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, & C-SPAN, while also being a Forbes Magazine contributor. Brian is a dynamic speaker that is regularly invited to present at leading security industry events worldwide such as: Black Hat, RSA, Interop, OWASP, & BSides.

Mirza Burhan Baig is an Information Security Threat Analyst in Kingdom of Saudia Arabia. Mr. Baig is OSCP Certified professional with over 8 years of experience in Penetration Testing, Threat Hunting & Vulnerability assessments which include Core banking solutions, Banking applications, Network assessment, Mobile penetration testing. Mostly served financial industry.

Mr. Baig is also a certified professional and holds an OSCP, eWPTX, eCPPTv2, eNDP, etc. He is involved in bug bounty programs as well, where he helped many companies to fix vulnerabilities at a different level. Companies include Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, PayPal, Apple, IBM, CISCO, etc. Mr. Baig is also involved in many physical security projects to bypass networks and systems.

Ms. Sadia Bashir is working as Sr. Malware Researcher, holding MS (Computer & Communication Security) from SEECS, NUST Islamabad, she has worked across multiple Computer Science disciplines including Software Defined Networks and Cyber Security. Before joining Ebryx, she subsequently held positions as Software Engineer (Python, C/C++) and Research Assistant in these domains. With Malware analysis as her core skill, she enjoys hunting and reverse engineering malware with analysis automation.

Abdul Basit Ajmal received bachelor's degree in computer science from COMSATS Islamabad in 2018. He received a masters degree in information security in 2021. Currently he is working as Cyber security specialist at dongamers.com and wemcss.com. He is also working as a cyber security researcher on HEC project at R&D Cyber Security lab COMSATS Islamabad campus. He is a technical program committee member at IEEE HONET. His current research interests include securing industrial grade systems, threat hunting, threat replication, adversary simulation, and risk assessment.

Ahmad has led the forensic investigation of multiple nation-sponsored APT attacks on Pakistan's financial institutes and telecommunication sector in recent years. In his current role as leading an awesome DFIR and CTI team at Ebryx, he has engaged in 20+ compromise assessments, 10+ major Digital Forensics and Incident Response engagements and more than 10+ cyber threat intelligence cases. His primary research focus is on advanced persistent threats, nation-sponsored attacks and insider threats.

Syed Hasan is a security analyst and researcher with focus on threat groups targeting Pakistan. Currently, he is working as a DFIR consultant at Ebryx where he responds to incidents and analyzes malware on the daily.

Soniya is a cyber security analyst by day and a student by night. She loves breaking things to know how they work, and that’s exactly why my current focus in security is on APTs, malware, and cyber-terrorism.