Incident Management Team of BSF

Additional Info

Job title of nominated professional (or team name)Head - Incident Management
Company (where nominated professional or team is working)Banque Saudi Fransi
Websitehttp://www.alfransi.com.sa
Company size (employees)5000
CountrySaudi Arabia

Overview

Since formed few years ago, the team excelled year after another in innovating the response operations to the very different types and categories of cyber and information security incidents and investigations. In 2016, the team exceeded the bank boundaries to respond to state-sponsored cyber attacks targeting the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The performance, technical capabilities, and hands-on, were all fused together to make a sound success; a contained incident; a fully determined scope of attack; and a comprehensive risk assessment and threat analysis report with practical and meaningful recommendations that shaped and orchestrated the response efforts for most of the many targeted entities, including government, private sector, etc. Once known nation-wide, became a reputable reference in response, threat assessment, digital forensics, and reverse-engineering.

The team consists of three leads:

1- Mohammed Almozaiyn – Head Incident Management

https://sa.linkedin.com/in/mohammedalmozaiyn

2- Thamir Alshammari – Lead Digital Forensics

https://sa.linkedin.com/in/thamiralshammari

3- Almuthna Aloqla – Lead Incident Response

https://sa.linkedin.com/in/almuthna

Accomplishments

1- The team shined the most, during a very challenging situation, in response to a wave of nation-wide, state-sponsored cyber attacks.


2- The team is built upon complementing each-other in terms of building up People, Processes, and Technology, in harmony, with cost-effective resources.


3- Cyber security maturity is in its very early stages in our region and hence in our country. Leading the maturity curve, with world standards, and top-industry practices and measures is indeed a rising flag.