Basit Syed
Espoo
Summary
Over the course of last twenty years, I have been an experienced technology leader and an entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of leading the development and implementation of comprehensive technology solutions and projects in Europe, United States and Asia. It is a privilege to head global product security for one of the largest companies in manufacturing domain, along with working globally with Nokia for more than a decade. I also have been an entrepreneur with my company based in Finland and working with customers in Nordic region. This has provided with hands-on experience on managing technology landscape, company building, talent and customer management, sales, and finances.
I hold a master’s degree from Finland in Engineering and have multiple top-ranked certifications, including CISSP, CISM, and IEC62443. I am also a dynamic public speaker and am passionate to share my ideas and knowledge on how AI will impact leadership, cybersecurity, and software development in general.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Head of Product Security
Konecranes Finland
09.2020 - Current
- Heading global company-wide initiative to Infuse security in Products and Services
- Working with a wide network of experts across all business areas and technology teams
- Striving to make Konecranes world leader in Product Security within its domain
- Formulation and implementation of Product security strategy for company
- Creating Baseline Product security requirements
- Threat Evaluation and Risk Management
- Secure Development Lifecycle development and implementation (SDL)
- Heading ISO 27001 certification project within company
- Compliance with regulation and standards, including, IEC 62443, EU directives, etc
- Evangelizing product security to all stakeholders
- Bringing teams and departments into security fold
- Representing cybersecurity domain in company expert group
- Open-source software and components management
- Vulnerability management for products
- Trainings and sessions on cybersecurity
- Vendor management
- Created and managing security champions’ network
- Security in Product Process
- Reporting to Chief Security Officer.
Security Lead
Nokia Finland
05.2018 - 08.2020
- Leading security for Business Unit and multiple products
- Information Security Management
- Security management, SecOps activities
- Guidance and assurance of secure design and privacy processes
- Leading security aspects of product development
- Security requirements for products and related documentation
- Selection of design components and evaluation
- Security awareness and trainings
- Customer handling for security items
- SAFe methodology (Product Owner)
- Leading high-performance teams in complex projects while providing virtual collaboration with international and remote teams
- Cyber-Data-Information-Network Security
- Security design
- Cloud and virtualization
- Threat and Risk Assessment
- Privacy Impact Assessment
- Static Code Analysis
- Pre-sales/delivery support
- GDPR, CSL, NSA.
Solution Delivery Architect
Nokia Finland
07.2016 - 05.2018
- E2E customer project delivery in NFV/SDN opportunities
- Solution and Service Delivery Team
- Coaches other team members
- Performing customer demos
- Participating in workshops/events related to our solutions
- Automation and DevOps
- Openstack, Cloudband, Nuage, Ansible.
Business and Market Analyst
Nokia Finland
12.2015 - 06.2016
- Developing insights, observations, analysis and recommendations for Key customers, sales programs and executives
- Helping top management making data driven decisions
- Content creation for executives to interface with top customers (e.g
- At Mobile World Congress).
Architect / Senior Specialist
Nokia Finland
07.2014 - 06.2016
- Leading, designing and implementation of Data Analytics within Evolved Packet Core
- High level design and communication with other Business Units and upper management
- Security improvement practices and steps
- Security access control (RBAC)
- Security hardening
- Cloudification of Nokia core network elements in line with ETSI/OPNFV Architecture
- OpenStack, MANO, NFV, Cloud infrastructure development and Technology selection.
Specialist (Cloud Technologies)
Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland
01.2013 - 06.2014
- Cloudification of 4G Core Networks, w.r.t NFV: Part of team involved in technology evaluation and selection
- Evaluating effects of NFV, SDN, IoT on our product
- Eucalyptus Cloud Platform, OpenStack, Amazon Cloud
- Focus on MME (Mobility Management Entity)
- Leading a team for database evaluation and selection: + Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, Riak, VoltDB
- Trainings and competence development
- Technical support and maintenance activities.
Specialist
Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland
09.2009 - 12.2012
- Design and development: 4G LTE MME features based on 3GPP standards, using Java/Linux/TNSDL on top of ATCA platform
- Mobility and session management, DNS, TCP/UDP protocol support, debugging and troubleshooting core-network level issues/escalations
- Agile in practice using scrum methodologies
- Participation in test design and regression analysis
- Bug-fixing and maintenance activities
- On-call support.
Software Engineer
Movial Finland
09.2007 - 08.2009
- SW design and development
- C++, design, development, quality, testing
- SIP, RTP, IP, HTTP, XMPP, POP3, IMAP, SMTP and FTP.
Research Engineer
Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland
05.2006 - 04.2007
- Research: LTE dimensioning and planning.
Design Engineer
AERO, Pakistan
08.2003 - 09.2005
- Design and development: Involved in software and algorithm development and testing of Air traffic control systems
- Visual C++, Visual Studio, MATLAB.
Education
Master of Science - Telecommunication
Helsinki University of Technology (Aalto University)
Finland02.2009
Bachelor of Science - Communication Engineering, Electronics
University of Engineering And Technology
Pakistan02.2003
Skills
- Product security
- Information security
- Secure development
- Cloud
- Privacy
- Software architecture
- Adoptability
- Working with international/multi-cultural teams
- Continuous learning
- Multi-fold approach
- Excellent communication skills
- Public speaking
- Ownership
- Self-Accountability
Certification
- CISSP
- ISO 27001 LI
- IEC 62443 Foundation
- ITIL
- CISM (Test passed)
- IEC 62443 OT Security (Fundamentals Specialist)
- ITIL v4
Citizenship
Finland
Personal Information
Title: Security Professional
Languages
Urdu
Native language
English
Proficient
C2
Finnish
Elementary
A2
Timeline
Head of Product Security
Konecranes Finland
09.2020 - Current
Security Lead
Nokia Finland
05.2018 - 08.2020
Solution Delivery Architect
Nokia Finland
07.2016 - 05.2018
Business and Market Analyst
Nokia Finland
12.2015 - 06.2016
Architect / Senior Specialist
Nokia Finland
07.2014 - 06.2016
Specialist (Cloud Technologies)
Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland
01.2013 - 06.2014
Specialist
Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland
09.2009 - 12.2012
Software Engineer
Movial Finland
09.2007 - 08.2009
Research Engineer
Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland
05.2006 - 04.2007
Design Engineer
AERO, Pakistan
08.2003 - 09.2005
Master of Science - Telecommunication
Helsinki University of Technology (Aalto University)
Bachelor of Science - Communication Engineering, Electronics
University of Engineering And Technology
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