Pat Mogano

Experience

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  Suzuki Auto South Africa

  Feb 2008 - Oct 2010

  IT Systems Administrator
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  Kuehne + Nagel

  Oct 2010 - Jul 2013

  Senior IT Technician

  • Support company servers across Africa (Windows 2003/2008 server)o Daily health checkso New server deploymento Server configuration changes where required• Support company WAN connections across Africao Daily network connectivity testingo Report connectivity issues to service provider• Maintain company monitoring system for WAN connections and servers (Nagios/Cacti/Zenoss)• Maintain company backup software for servers through Comm Vault• Maintain company patching of servers and desktops through Kaseya/WSUS• Maintain company McAfee anti-virus solution for servers and desktops• Maintain company Active Directoryo Create new users, security groups & group policieso Modify users, security groups & group policieso Monthly reconciliation with company personnel system• Maintain company email environment (Exchange 2007 and POP3)o Create new mailboxes and distribution groupso Modify existing mailboxes and distribution groupso Monthly reconciliation with company personnel system• Maintain company Blackberry environmento Create new userso Delete old userso Modify IT policies• Maintain company Cisco ACS radius environment• Maintain company printing environmento Create new network shared printerso Maintain existing network shared printers• Create and update documentation/procedures around server environment and WAN connections• Weekly reporting to IT Infrastructure ManagerGeneral high level desktop support Show less

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  Liberty Group

  Aug 2013 - Dec 2016

  Team Lead: IT Security

  Daily upkeep of McAfee, Websense Proxy and Email Gateway Environments Analysis, Monitoring & Reporting on Security EnvironmentsCyber security AnalysisMcAfee Nitro/ESM and ePolicy Orchestrator managementWebsense & ISA 2006 Proxy Server management TrendMicro Mail Relay, Mimecast Cloud Mail Gateway & Blackberry Enterprise Server management 3rd Line Security Escalations Maintain open channels with Liberty stakeholders to ensure business continuity.

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  Cognosec

  Jan 2017 - Nov 2017

  Information Security Engineer

  Provide direction and consultation on information security and compliance.• Creation, maintenance and socialization of security policies, procedures and standards in alignment with global policies, procedures and standards.• Correlate and analyse events using the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tool to detect IT security incidents• Document investigation results, ensuring relevant details are passed for final event analysis• Develop a local information security risk assessment framework to accurately assess all internal and external threats and vulnerabilities in accordance to the company’s security policy.• Recognizes problems by identifying abnormalities, reporting violations.• Implements security improvements by assessing current situation; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements.• Anticipate security alerts, incidents and disasters and reduce their likelihood• Manage network, intrusion detection and prevention systems• Analyse security breaches to determine their root cause• Keeps stakeholders informed by preparing performance reports, communicating security status.• Perform regular information security assessments & attestations, compliance reviews and information security audits with associated management reporting with a view towards continuous improvement.• Identify and drive information security improvement initiatives in response to identified threats, vulnerabilities and weaknesses.• Monitor and analyse information security performance and compliance reports and escalate issues as needed.• Work closely with client project implementation teams to provide security guidance and to identify, assess and mitigate potential information security threats and vulnerabilities.• Work with other IS support teams to manage required changes and updates to IT Security requirements.• Implements and manages Intrusion Detection/Prevention (IDS/IPS), Vulnerability Management systems, Endpoint Security/Anti-virus systems. Show less

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  Investec

  Dec 2017 - Jul 2023

  Information Security Engineer
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  Bidvest Bank Limited

  Aug 2023 - now

  Cyber Security Officer