Farhan Fathah in a cybersecurity operations setting
FARHAN FATHAH IT & NOC → SECURITY OPERATIONSLet’s connect

UAE / OPEN TO SOC ANALYST L1 ROLES

OPERATIONS.
INSTINCT.
DEFENSE.

13+ years keeping enterprise systems running.
A growing focus on identity, detection & investigation.

OPERATIONS EXPERIENCE.
AN EVIDENCE-LED MINDSET.
13+YEARS IN IT & NOC
3,500+USERS SUPPORTED AT ENOC
ISC2MicrosoftCiscoEC-CouncilCREDENTIALS & CONTINUED LEARNING
THE JOURNEY

Understand the system.
Follow the evidence.
Explain the decision.

  1. 2013

    Infrastructure

    Infosys · Daimler data centre

  2. 2015

    IT ownership

    KPFF Global

  3. 2021

    Operations at scale

    Expo 2020 Dubai

  4. 2022 — NOW

    NOC & identity

    ENOC

  5. THE NEXT CHAPTER

    Security operations

    Building toward SOC Analyst L1

Swipe to explore the journey ↔

01 / EXPERIENCE

A career built
on showing up.

Understanding how systems should behave is a useful place to start when investigating what went wrong.

ENOCIT Support Specialist & NOC AnalystDubai · Assignment through TransguardFeb 2022 — Present Current role

Security Operations & Incident Response

  • Triaged abnormal user activity, suspicious browser behavior, and identity-related incidents across Active Directory/Entra ID for 3,500+ users.
  • Investigated suspicious VPN logins — foreign IPs, mismatched geolocation, MFA failures — blocking unauthorized access attempts.
  • Remediated compromised accounts via password resets and MFA re-enforcement, closing confirmed identity incidents.
  • Validated and cleaned phishing-exposed endpoints through AV scanning and malware checks.
  • Logged and categorized incidents in BMC Remedy with root-cause notes, maintaining escalation workflow compliance.

Monitoring & Alert Triage

  • Monitored enterprise infrastructure in BMC TrueSight, Entuity, Site24x7, and NetFlow Analyzer, flagging anomalies and traffic deviations before service impact.
  • Triaged first-level alerts — latency spikes, abnormal device behavior — and escalated confirmed incidents to L2/L3.
  • Monitored POS, Pumpomat, and NCR retail systems across 800+ locations, sustaining stable and secure operation.

Identity & Access Security

  • Administered access controls (privileged accounts, groups, licenses, hybrid identity sync) in Active Directory/Microsoft 365 for 3,500+ users.
  • Validated MFA challenges and sign-in anomalies, escalating confirmed cases to L2/L3 security teams.

Recognition

  • Earned a Certificate of Recognition (Q2 2023) from ENOC for monitoring responsiveness and incident handling.
Identity & accessNOC monitoringIncident ownership
Expo 2020 DubaiIT Operations & Support EngineerDubai, UAEJun 2021 — Feb 2022
  • Secured IT operations supporting delegations from 190+ countries during Expo 2020 Dubai.
  • Enforced patch and software-deployment compliance via ManageEngine Desktop Central, reducing endpoint attack surface.
  • Resolved security incidents across Active Directory, Exchange/Outlook, and Cisco AnyConnect VPN.
  • Standardized endpoint builds via Acronis imaging, cutting deployment time and configuration drift.
  • Maintained AV, CCTV, and VMS/SMS physical-security systems for continuous operation.
  • Managed mobile device compliance via Microsoft Intune and monitored network health via ManageEngine OpManager, flagging incidents for NOC escalation.
  • Logged and resolved tickets via ServiceNow and ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, maintaining SLA compliance.
  • Onboarded endpoints to Microsoft Defender ATP, extending threat-detection coverage across the device fleet.
Endpoint managementITSMEvent operations
KPFF GlobalIT CoordinatorDubai, UAEAug 2015 — Jul 2020
  • Administered identity and access on Windows Server 2012 R2 Active Directory and Exchange Online for 40+ users.
  • Managed patching, antivirus, licensing, and backups across the IT asset lifecycle, reducing unlicensed/unpatched exposure.
  • Administered firewalls, routers/switches, and biometric access control for facility security.
IT administrationBackups & recoveryNetworking
InfosysSystem EngineerDaimler Mercedes-Benz European Data CentreJun 2013 — Dec 2014
  • Delivered L1/L2 infrastructure support for Daimler Mercedes-Benz's European Data Centre under regulated change control.
  • Monitored infrastructure via SCOM and Nagios, flagging service risks before customer impact.
  • Administered Active Directory, HP/Dell servers, VMware, SCCM, and LAN/WAN under ITIL-aligned change management.
Enterprise infrastructureITILL1 / L2 support
02 / SELECTED PROJECTS

Built with curiosity.
Made to learn.

Personal projects and lab practice. Each one connects a security question to a method, a result, or a limit worth explaining.

PERSONAL WORK · NOT CLIENT ENGAGEMENTS
NORTHSTAR / SOC SIMULATORSYNTHETIC DATA
Python
event generator
SplunkSentinel
ONE SCENARIO. TWO SIEM VIEWS.Architecture
02 / SECURITY ENGINEERING

A company built for learning.

A fictional enterprise telemetry generator for practicing ingestion, detection logic and analyst decisions.

PythonSentinelSplunk HEC
PHP / EXPOSURE CHECKPUBLIC SIGNALS
A fingerprint.
A reason to verify.
READ THE EVIDENCE. KEEP THE LIMITS.Product concept
03 / DEFENSIVE TOOLING

Evidence before a verdict.

A public-response checker that separates PHP clues and disclosed versions from verified vulnerability status.

Cloudflare WorkersJavaScript

THE WORKBENCH

Deeper technical work, in its own space.

PHP Exposure Check Investigations & SOC Playground
03 / SKILLS & PRACTICE

A practical toolkit.

My strongest foundation is operations. My current focus is connecting that foundation to security investigations.

01 / DETECTION & TRIAGE

Find the signal.
Ask the next question.

Splunk · Sentinel · SPL · KQL
Authentication analysis · Alert triage

02 / IDENTITY & ENDPOINT

Understand the account.
Know the device.

AD / Entra ID · MFA · Conditional Access · Microsoft 365
Defender for Endpoint · Intune

03 / NETWORK VISIBILITY

Connect the activity.
Explain the context.

OPNsense · Zeek · Suricata
TCP/IP · DNS · DHCP · Packet analysis

04 / OPERATIONAL DISCIPLINE

Document clearly.
Own the outcome.

ITIL · Incident / problem / change
ServiceNow · BMC Remedy · Windows / Linux

04 / CREDENTIALS

Learning never
stands still.

Certifications support the learning. Hands-on practice connects it to decisions.

ISC2 · CC

Certified in Cybersecurity

✓
MICROSOFT · SC-300

Identity & Access Administrator

✓
EC-COUNCIL · CEH v13

Certified Ethical Hacker

✓
CISCO · CCNA

Certified Network Associate

✓

Cybersecurity internship
NIELIT, Government of India

Currently deepening my security operations practice.

Microsoft Sentinel · Defender XDR · SC-200 + Security+ preparation

See the practical work
NOW / STUDYING

SC-200 + Security+

Sentinel, Defender XDR, KQL, threats, and response decisions.

NEXT / BUILDING

Deeper, clearer case files

Connect network and endpoint evidence, map detections to MITRE ATT&CK, and document tuning and escalation decisions.

DIRECTION / SOC ANALYST L1

Make the transition.

Bring operations experience, lab practice, and an evidence-led mindset into a UAE security operations team.

LET’S CONNECT / UAEOPEN TO SOC ANALYST L1 OPPORTUNITIES

Good things start
with a conversation.

Looking for an analyst who understands operations,
owns an incident and keeps asking better questions?

Start a conversation [email protected]

THE QUESTION

THE APPROACH

THE EVIDENCE & THE LIMIT

QUERY EXAMPLE

Example logic to adapt to the actual data and collection path; no production results are implied.

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