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Syed Sharique Mahdi Rizvi

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  • Location : Lucknow Uttar Pradesh , India
  • Email : info@cybertechnoattroneys.com
  • Phone : +91 (941) 153-6856
  • Languages : English, Hindi,Urdu
  • Practice Areas : More than 7+
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Syed Sharique Mahdi Rizvi

As an experienced EDiscovery, Digital Forensic and IT Security professional, my analytical abilities will help your organisation to achieve its goals. Existing and prospective clients will be impressed with my innovative presentations, novel investigation techniques, design of IT Security policy and implementations.

Key Achivements

  • Established Computer Forensics Lab at IIIT Allahabad, KPMG Delhi & Supreme UAE.
  • Won Maverick Contest at Deloitte US Firms in which 1000 employees participated.
  • Investigated world’s largest fraud, “Siemens” in the history of the US FCPA Investigation.
  • Investigated India’s biggest corporate fraud, “Satyam Scandal”
  • Established in house Relativity Platform for Supreme Group, first in the Middle East.
  • Competent Manager and Excellent Trainer
  • Head of IT- Security – Supreme Group.

Education

M. Tech Software Engineering, July 2000 – Dec 2003 

MNNIT Allahabad Allahabad, India.

  1. Databases & Algorithms
  2. Parallel Algorithms & Data Mining.
  3. Parallel Computing (PARAM 10000).
  4. Designed Distributer Computer.

MSc Applied Mathematics, July 1996 – Jun 1998.

University if Allahabad Allahabad, India.

  1. Computer Science.
  2. Mathematical Analysis.
  3. Plasma Mechanics.

LLB Laws, July 1998 – Jun 2001

University of Allahabad Allahabad India

  1. Data Protection & IPR.
  2. E-commerce Laws.
  3. International Laws.
  4. Cyber Laws.

Work Experience

Head of IT Security / Senior Forensic Investigator – May 2012 – Till Date Supreme Group – www.supreme-group.net Dubai UAE

Responsibilities:

EDiscovery and Forensics (Senior Forensic Investigator)

  1. Established Digital Forensic & Investigation Laboratory for Ethics and Compliance.
  2. Manage and Investigate all Digital Investigation for the group.
  3. Conducted up to 200 plus digital investigations since May 2012.
  4. Digital Investigations including Laptops, Servers, Mobiles Phones, & Electronic Surveillance.
  5. Supervise eDiscovery projects on Legal Compliance for Dept. of Justice (DOJ) & Dept. of Defences (DOD) US.
  6. Supervised project for 100’s of users data collection, processing, keywords searches and export to / from Concordance / Relativity / Nuix format for hosting and review on Relativity (EDRM).
  7. Established full in house Relativity platform for hosting and review of data for E-discovery.
  8. Relativity Administrator and providing services to external clients.
  9. Providing 24×7 full Relativity support to the US clients.
  10. Migrated 30 TB of Relativity Data from outside environment to in-house – Workspace Migration (DBMT – Tool).

IT Security (Head of IT Security)

  1. Responsible for overall global IT Security for Supreme Group.
  2. Handling all incidents response cases for IT Security.
  3. Constituted Cert Team for Incident Response.
  4. Responsible for Internal and External IT Security Audit and Compliance for Supreme Group, (EU & UAE).
  5. Handling over all Information Security issues comprising of email security, network security, data security and IT Security Audit.
  6. Developed IT Security Framework, Information Security Policies, and Data Backup policies (ISO/IEC 27001).
  7. Supervised the Information Security operations for NATO forces, supporting applications, and servers in various locations of Afghanistan & UAE.

Assistant Manager – Mar 2010 – Apr 2012

KPMG – www.kpmg.com ,Delhi India

Responsibilities:

  1. Established Digital Forensic & Investigation Laboratory for Forensic Technology.
  2. Established Distributed Network Attack (DNA-FTK) system for password cracking.
  3. Investigated 400 users for Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, USA.
  4. Huge Document Collection and Management of 18000 file in compliance for SEB US.
  5. Electronic document searches in Tally and CODA systems for cross referencing.
  6. Email Investigation and data analysis of 200 custodians involved in Common Wealth Games.
  7. Overseas Investigation of 40 employees of telecom company for SIM card fraud in Africa.
  8. Project Management (EDRM) and policies for avoid security and frauds.

Assistant Manager – Oct 2007 – Feb 2010

Deloitte R10 US – www.deloitte.com Hyderabad India

Responsibilities:

  1. Manage huge data collection at various location around India.
  2. Restoring and retrieval of tape data, and remote data collection.
  3. Transferring of collected data to remote servers to international locations.
  4. Maintain chain of custody and documentation.
  5. Implementing four eye principle & process auditing.
  6. Part of establishing E- Discovery Solution Centre, Deloitte USA.
  7. Conducted investigation of 400 different mobile phones.
  8. Managed preserving of terabytes of data in 1000 disks.
  9. Conducted data interview of 400 users.

Faculty Member – Jan 2004 – Oct 2007

Indian Institute of Information Technology – www.iiita.ac.in Allahabad India.

Responsibilities:

  1. Teaching B. Tech & M. Tech classes.
  2. Designed and established MS course in Cyber Laws and Information Security.
  3. Course Coordinator for MS Information Security.
  4. Guide number of Master thesis on Information Security and Computer Science.
  5. Organised Conferences and Work Shops.

Certification and Trainings

  1. Encase Forensics
  2. Relativity Administrator
  3. Relativity Analytics
  4. Leading Professional Ethics and Compliance (LPEC)
  5. Information Security and Education (IMSC)
  6. Education and Training in Cyber Security (TFIR)
  7. Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)

Skill Set Profinciancy

  1. Digital Forensic and Investigations Tools
  2. Electronic Discovery
  3. Secure Audit
  4. Encase
  5. FTK
  6. Relativity Administrator
  7. Concordance
  8. Paraben
  9. Nuix

Professional Interests

  1. Digital Forensics
  2. Electronic Discovery
  3. IT Audit and Security
  4. Fraud Investigation
  5. Cyber Laws

Professional Memberships

  1. Member Computer Society of India
  2. Member Computer Security Institute
  3. Member Bar Council of India
  4. Editor, International Journal for Secure Information Age
  5. MemberIEEE
  6. MemberACFE

Personal Details

  1. Languages:English,Hindi,Urdu
  2. Hobbies: DevelopingIdeas,Technical Speaker and Research Writing
  3. Nationality: Indian
  4. Current Location: Dubai UAE.
  5. Willing to relocate

Awards Recognition

  1. Maverick Award – Deloitte
  2. BestDesigning–Deloitte
  3. BestTeam–KPMG
  4. Exceptional Recognition – Supreme