About

Rida Rashid is a highly qualified and extensively trained Cyber Security Professional with over 4 years of experience in Cyber Security solutions. She is adept at helping large organizations achieve Cyber Security industry standards and Compliance goals through Consulting and Advisory Services. She is skilled in Threat and Risk assessments, Penetration Testing, Incident Response and Remediation, Security Operations Center, Log Analysis, Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting, Privacy Impact Assessments and Delivering end products under Time and Cost constraints. Rida has robust Interpersonal and Communication Skills in managing large-scale projects. Rida has experience in Cyber Security Consulting, Penetration Testing (Web Application & External/Internal Networks), Web Application Security Hardening Consultation, Network & Security Architecture Design & Implementation, Incident Response and Investigation, Threat Analysis through NIDs/LIDs, SIEM, Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Malware Analysis, SAP, Oracle 11g/12c and SQL Server, Information Governance, Process re-engineering & Policy Compliance and BCP/DRP. She has worked with Network/Security Monitoring Tools such as HP ArcSight, SolarWinds, FireEye, Fortigate, Cisco Snort, Cisco Sourcefire, Checkpoint Forester, McAfee NSM, AirMagnet, Wireless IPS (Motorola AirDefence), Imperva SecureSphere, IBM Proventia, Lancope SteathWATCH, Citrix, Endpoints (GoSecure, Carbon Black, McAfee ePo, Checkpoints, Fortinet and Palo alto), RSA, Entrust and Zabbix. Rida has also worked with Vulnerability Management tools such as Accunetix, Qualys and Nessus. She is proficient in Penetration Testing Tools such as Nmap, Metasploit Framework, DirBuster, Sniper, OpenVas, SQLmap and Burp Suite. Rida has experience with Compliance standards such as ITSG-33, ISO27001, CIS, NIST, PCI-DSS, GDPR and PIPEDA. She has worked with Ticketing Systems such as BMC Remedy, OTRS and Service Now. Rida is also skilled in Programming Languages such as Python, Java Script, and HTML, Linux (Ubuntu, and Kali), Packet Analysis (Wireshark), Cuckoo Sandbox, Visio, DNS, DHCP, NTP TCP/UDP/IP and VLSM. Rida is a Canadian Permanent Resident and holds certifications in ISACA Cyber Security Fundamentals and is currently pursuing OSCP. She