Umair Akbar

Umair Akbar is an accomplished Senior Information Security Engineer with over 5 years of experience, specializing in threat detection, mitigation, information assurance, governance, and auditing. He has gained a reputation for identifying security risks, automating processes, and implementing fault-tolerant cloud architecture. He has successfully moved monolithic infrastructures to entirely isolated cloud-based systems, utilizing his concentration in modern cloud infrastructure backed by his professional cloud accreditations from AWS and Google. He is a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and a Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE), showing his true technical, business, and legal acumen. Umair's talent for aligning business strategy and objectives with internationally established information security and engineering paradigms have allowed him to achieve maximum operational impacts with minimal resource expenditures. His experience includes being a former Senior Security Systems Engineer and Security Systems Engineer for Hydra Technologies, an Information Systems Analyst at Northwoods Pediatric Center, and a Cyber Security Analyst for Beta Systems Software. His education includes a Master of Science from Western Governors University and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Houston.