Khalid has over 16 years of progressive experience in Cybersecurity and currently leads the Cybersecurity and Privacy service of Protiviti in the Middle East Region. Khalid is a Certified Information Security Manager, Certified Ethical Hacker, and Certified ISO 27001 Lead Auditor and holds other relevant technical security certifications.
He managed numerous cybersecurity and privacy projects for several clients in the energy and utilities, manufacturing, financial, government and telecommunications, industries in Kuwait and the Middle East Region.
He has been involved in spearheading awareness amongst the community members and has delivered cyber security workshops in the Middle East Region and India.
He has been invited as a speaker on ‘cybersecurity’ for various conference held in the region such as the following:
He was also interviewed by Arabtimes, Kuwait on the exploit techniques used by Hackers. Further he has also developed advanced, sophisticated malwares for testing the security controls of industrial control systems.