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Adeboye Adejobi

Canada

Summary

Accomplished Cybersecurity specialist/analyst with a passion and enormous success with vast knowledge of common IT standards and compliance frameworks such as NIST 800-53, ISO 27001-2, SOC, GRC Tools (One Trust).

Experienced in Security and Privacy regulatory/legislative compliance (Third Party Risk Assessment, PCI DSS, GDPR, PIPEDA, and HIPAA), great attitude with excellent listening skills, passionate and enthusiastic with great Planning and organizing.

Insightful, good planner and detail-oriented organizer, resourceful and able to work remotely, work in a team, lead and self-manage with a troubleshooting attitude. Ability to interpret and provide guidance on clients’ security requirements to non-technical resources.

Adept in Agile methodology, frameworks and Atlassian suite of products (Jira, Confluence, etc.).

Excellent report writing, presentation, verbal communication, and teamwork capabilities.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Information Security Specialist

Ascendix Consulting LLC
07.2023 - Current
  • Perform assessments, monitor, and manage supply chain security risks.
  • Participate in identifying and delivering information security, data privacy and compliance improvement initiatives.
  • Own corporate security policies, ensuring they are current, are benchmarked against industry standards (ISO 27001, PCI DSS etc.) and communicate to various internal and external stakeholders.
  • Carry out vendor documentation including SOC reports, ISO 27001 certification, vulnerability management policy, and business continuity/disaster recovery policies to ascertain the vendor’s level of
  • compliance with required regulatory bodies.
  • Assess, report results, metrics and measurements as related to the effectiveness of the organization’s cybersecurity awareness program and the existing practices/culture, as well as make recommendations for continuous improvement/enhancement.
  • Perform continuous controls monitoring using Governance, Risk and Complaince. (GRC)

Information Security Risk and Compliance Analyst

Nayola Consulting LLC.
02.2021 - 06.2023
  • Planned, developed, managed risks, and provided support for all ISO 20071 procedures.
  • Coordinated audits including annual SOC 2 audits, Privacy Impact Analysis, etc.
  • Identified, documented, and helped plan resolution of client technology risks.
  • Performed QA on peers’ information security assessments to ensure accuracy and validity of the assessment.
  • Documented risks and provided recommendations to mitigate gaps in a vendor’s information security controls.
  • Contributed to the Cyber assessment metrics and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) reporting to senior management to influence risk-based results.
  • Proactively provided analysis and recommendations for identified security exceptions; participated in defining remediation efforts.
  • Identified opportunities to improve security posture, developed solutions for remediating or mitigating risks and assessing the residual risk.

Information Security and Privacy Specialist

Acuren Group Inc.
02.2020 - 01.2021
  • Facilitated and managed the organization’s security risk management process.
  • Conducted third-party/vendor risk assessment and carried out operational metrics and reporting.
  • Facilitated the creation of robust, time-bound remediation's plans, where necessary and where applicable.
  • Assisted the organization in the use of SOC 1/2, ISO 27001 and NIST 800-53 frameworks, privacy regulations (e.g. GDPR).
  • Assisted in developing customer deliverables (RFPs and Security Questionnaires).
  • Assisted in obtaining organizational level security-related certification (SOC 2 Type 2, NIST, and ISO/IEC 27001).
  • Managed data privacy program (updated policies and guidance) and developed processes that aligned with relevant standards.
  • Developed, maintained, and implemented business continuity strategies and solutions, including Tabletop exercises, business impact analysis, documentation and testing of business continuity procedures, and disaster recovery plans.
  • Facilitated team-building relationships to promote internal and external communication, improved transparency within team, and sharing information with all interested parties.

Scrum Master/Snr. Project Manager

Verizon Wireless Communication
02.2018 - 02.2020
  • Coached Product Owner in providing business and customer value, backlog refinement early and often
  • Educated Product Owner, stakeholders, and development team on the
  • agile best practices.
  • Resolved impediments by finding the right personnel to resolve them, escalate when necessary and protect team from external interferences.
  • Facilitated all scrum events (daily scrum, sprit planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective) and ensured all outcomes are defined, understood, and achieved for all scrum teams.
  • Partner with Product Owner to ensure product backlogs are continuously prioritized in line with business priority.
  • Built and fostered an environment of trust and teamwork.
  • Empowered the scrum team by providing continuous improvement opportunities to efficiently solve problems and provide critical thinking skills.
  • Proactively anticipated, detected, and protected the teams from any
  • distraction that may impede the team from achieving their sprint goal
  • Directed and led scrum teams from project initiation through to the delivery of a “done” product.

Team Lead, Commercial Banking

Fidelity Bank Plc
06.2009 - 01.2018
  • Commercial Banking
  • Managing relationship of top Commercial accounts
  • Creation/Monitoring of Risk Assets Portfolio
  • Marketing & Processing of Trade Transactions for customers who are Importers & Exporters for LC, BC, NXP and Form A transactions.
  • Liability generation
  • Frequent training to subordinates
  • Recovery on Delinquent Facility Accounts
  • Marketing of the Banks Liability and Risk Asset products
  • Driving collections on Corporate Value Chain customers of the Bank.
  • Marketing and deployment of POS terminals/e-channels products to commercial customers to increase collections/transactions on their accounts.

Education

MBA - Human Resources Management

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
03.2013

Bachelor of Science - Information Security Management

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
03.2006

Skills

  • Strong knowledge of network security principles
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Jira/Confluence Practice
  • Threat Intelligence Analysis
  • Network Access Control
  • Impediment Tracking and Removal
  • Windows, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Visio, Outlook, Microsoft Project
  • Collaboration/Facilitation/Coaching/mentoring
  • Scrum Methodology
  • Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC)
  • Team Engagement
  • Continuous integration
  • Data Loss Prevention
  • Unified Threat Management

Certification

  • Certified in Risk and Information System Controls (CRISC)
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
  • Professional Scrum Master(Scrum.Org)
  • Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)


Timeline

Information Security Specialist

Ascendix Consulting LLC
07.2023 - Current

Information Security Risk and Compliance Analyst

Nayola Consulting LLC.
02.2021 - 06.2023

Information Security and Privacy Specialist

Acuren Group Inc.
02.2020 - 01.2021

Scrum Master/Snr. Project Manager

Verizon Wireless Communication
02.2018 - 02.2020

Team Lead, Commercial Banking

Fidelity Bank Plc
06.2009 - 01.2018

MBA - Human Resources Management

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology

Bachelor of Science - Information Security Management

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology

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