Ahasanun Nessa
Ottawa,Canada
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Consultant (Security)
Emtech Group Inc
Toronto, Canada
03.2023 - Current
- Identify threats and vulnerabilities in software development life cycle
- Communicate identified risks to key stakeholders to initiate and drive risk remediation
- Guiding software development team to incorporate security best practices during product development
- Develop, review, manage and update company cybersecurity policies, procedures and controls
- Develop the business continuity and disaster recovery plan to meet company requirements
- Create product documentation (user guide)
- Develop marketing materials (whitepapers, newsletters, blogs).
Senior Applied Scientist
QA consultants
Toronto, Canada
04.2021 - 03.2023
- Contribute technically to cybersecurity and other related internal R&D projects
- Conduct threat analysis and risk assessment for autonomous system
- Analyze security posture of products
- Develop marketing materials (whitepapers, newsletters).
Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellow
Ryerson University
Toronto, Canada
04.2020 - 03.2021
- Research on machine learning and deep learning techniques in accurate localization and tracking
- Investigate the performance of LoRa and LoRaWAN technology for industrial applications (underground mine and inventory tracking systems)
- Develop algorithms and models for accurate positioning and tracking in indoor and outdoor environments
- Writing proposal (industry and academic) and mentoring junior lab members
- Present the outcome of the research to PI and industry partners.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Collaboration with: Ryerson University & Peytec Inc
Markham, Canada
10.2018 - 11.2019
- Research and network design for wireless indoor positioning systems
- Develop medium access strategy using LoRa for industrial applications
- Develop resilient testing strategies to monitor sensing tags.
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering -
Ecole De Technology Superieure
09.2017
M.Eng. in IT and Telecommunications -
Inha University Incheon
02.2009
B.Sc. in Computer Science -
Jahangirnagar University Dhaka
07.2005
Skills
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- NIST Risk Management Framework
- Secure software development framework
- NIST-SSDF
- NIST SP-800 204D
- Threat modeling methodologies
- STRIDE
- PASTA
- Automotive safety and cybersecurity standards
- ISO/SAE 21434, ISO 21448, ISO 26262
- Automotive cybersecurity regulations: UNECE R155, R156
- Product documentation
- User guide creation
- Marketing documentation creation
- Cloud security knowledge
- Machine learning
- Deep learning
- Python programming
Certification
- CISSP (pursuing)
- Cyber Integration for Businesses: Automotive Bootcamp-Rogers cybersecure catalyst
- Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate (Coursera)
- Certified in Cybersecurity (CC) (ISC)², 2023.
- NSE 2 Network Security Associate (Fortinet), 2022
- NSE 1 Network Security Associate (Fortinet), 2022
Accomplishments
- Integrated security solutions to Project Arrow vehicle
- Accessed the security posture of the autonomous vehicle and designed a security architecture to integrate security solutions into the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association (APMA) Project Arrow concept vehicle, securing the vehicle from cyberattacks.
Blogs
- NIST SSDF and SP 800-204D: Securing the Software Supply Chain in the Digital Era
- Shift Left in SDLC: Mitigating Software Supply Chain Attacks for Insurance Carriers
- Speed to Market: Swift Life & Annuity Product Launch
- Cyberattacks on Insurance Companies: Effects & Reactions
White Papers
- Privacy and Cybersecurity Challenges in Vehicle Teleoperation and Mitigation Approaches
- Best practices in Securing Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure (Processing)
Publications
- Journals, A Survey of Machine learning for Indoor Positioning, IEEE Access journal, 8, 214945-214965, 2020
- Journals, Fountain Coded Cooperative Communications for LTE-A Connected Heterogeneous M2M Network, IEEE Access journal, 4, 5280-5292, 2016
- Journals, Joint Network Channel Fountain Schemes for Machine-Type Communications over LTE-Advanced, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 3, 3, 418-427, 2016
- Journals, Efficient and Reliable Communication in Wireless Relay Networks Using Joint Network Channel Fountain, JCM, 9, 8, 597-606, 2014
- Journals, Performance analysis of dual-hop cooperative MIMO transmission with relay selection in Rayleigh fading channel, International Arab Journal of Information Technology, 2011
- Conference, Adaptive Latency Reduction in LoRa for Mission Critical Communications in Mine, IEEE ESSCA 2020 Workshop on Emerging Security Solutions for Critical Applications, 29 June - 1 July 2020 (Virtual Conference)
- Conference, Joint network channel fountain scheme for reliable communication in wireless networks, International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2014, 206-210
- Conference, Towards reliable cooperative communications in clustered ad-hoc networks, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Anaheim, CA, 4090-4095, 2012
- Conference, Performance Analysis of Two-Hop Cooperative MIMO transmission with Relay Selection in Rayleigh Fading Channel, IEEE 4th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 1-4, 12-14 Oct. 2008
Timeline
Technical Consultant (Security)
Emtech Group Inc
03.2023 - Current
Senior Applied Scientist
QA consultants
04.2021 - 03.2023
Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellow
Ryerson University
04.2020 - 03.2021
Postdoctoral Fellow
Collaboration with: Ryerson University & Peytec Inc
10.2018 - 11.2019
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering -
Ecole De Technology Superieure
M.Eng. in IT and Telecommunications -
Inha University Incheon
B.Sc. in Computer Science -
Jahangirnagar University Dhaka
- CISSP (pursuing)
- Cyber Integration for Businesses: Automotive Bootcamp-Rogers cybersecure catalyst
- Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate (Coursera)
- Certified in Cybersecurity (CC) (ISC)², 2023.
- NSE 2 Network Security Associate (Fortinet), 2022
- NSE 1 Network Security Associate (Fortinet), 2022
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