Kassoum Sow
Edmonton,Canada
Summary
Offering strong analytical abilities and passion for cybersecurity to proactively address security threats. Brings understanding of network protocols and threat mitigation strategies, with skills in risk assessment and vulnerability management. Ready to use and develop these skills in Desired Position role.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Cybersecurity Specialist – Data Access Operations
Tick Tock Tech Inc.
07.2023 - 10.2023
- Serve as first-line contact for DAM tool and, service incidents, ensuring rapid triage and resolution of Li/L2 tickets related to data access using Securiti.ai.
- Monitoring health and availability of DAM service tools integrations, proactively identifying and escalating issues to DAMP engineering team to minimize service disruption.
- Supported onboarding of new data sources (e.g., Share Point, One Drive, File Share) to DAM platform, ensuring seamless integration and compliance with access policies.
- Conducted periodic Data Access policies, including unauthorized access by 30% within 3 months.
- Managed exceptions to standard access policies, including provisioning emergency access with full audit trails to meet compliance requirements.
- Identified trends and recurring access issues through data analysis, driving process enhancements that improved SLA adherence and reduced incident response times by 20%.
- Facilitate stakeholder workshops to educate teams on data access policies, resulting in a 25% reduction in policy violation.
- Assisted in the rollout of new data classification standards, ensuring consistent application across multiple business units.
Cybersecurity Specialist
CDI College
11.2021 - 07.2023
- Cybersecurity Specialist course materials as fundamental resources, trainings, real-time case study scripts, practice on CompTia and TestOut platforms: hardware protection, firewalls hardening, OS configuration, applications and software update, Intrusion detection systems, data encryption and privacy enforcement, ensuring confidentiality and resiliency by promoting back-ups to secure cloud storage. Network identification, configuration, analyzing, evaluation, protection and real-time monitoring by using adequate intrusion detection systems (IDS, IPS, UTM, SIEM, EDR, NDR). Also, the ISO27001 implementation, auditing and monitoring to ensure policies, rules and security best practices are applied and effective for all. Choosing the right combination of these tools is key to maximizing cybersecurity efficiency depending on the organization’s size, risk profile, and resources. To emphasize this is the place where selected candidates enjoy learning and experiencing a journey as a Red, Blue, White, Green, Purple, Orange, Yellow Team actor without any financial loss.
- To ensure compliance, competency, trust, availability and quality of the product, all submitted (assignments or papers) for evaluation were completed in a selected windows 360 environment (word, Excel, PowerPoint) as ruled, and governed by the Professor or Instructor course syllabus.
Education
Cybersecurity Specialist Diploma - undefined
CDI College
10.2023
Network Administration - undefined
Sundance College
05.2019
Associate degree - Healthcare
ABES College
02.2018
1 Year Business Administration - undefined
Université de Moncton
05.2001
High School - undefined
Lycée Garçons de Bingerville
07.1997
Skills
- IAM (Identity Access Management)
- Data Access Management (DAM)
- Data Discovery and classification
- ISO27001
- Data Access certification & Audit Support
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Unstructured Data Governance (File Shares, SharePoint, oneDrive)
- Process Improvement and Documentation
- Risk Identification and Mitigation
Certification
Certifications in progress: (CISSP, Network+, CompTIA core 1&2, cysa+, GIAC)
Languages
English: Proficiency
Professional Working
French: Proficiency
Native or Bilingual
Hobbies and Interests
ISACA active member (Edmonton Chapter), enrolled in Cybersecurity volunteering Program, and social projects discussions., Calgary Centennial Rotary Club, volunteering in Mental Health support, promoting sustainability by planting trees this summer in Calgary.
Affiliations
ISACA active member (Edmonton Chapter), Membership Type: Recent Graduate (1st year), ISACA ID: 1896333, Loyalty Level: Bronze, Paid Through: 2025-12-31
Additional Information
References up on request.
Work Type
Full TimeContract WorkPart TimeWork Location
RemoteHybridOn-SiteTimeline
Cybersecurity Specialist – Data Access Operations
Tick Tock Tech Inc.
07.2023 - 10.2023
Cybersecurity Specialist
CDI College
11.2021 - 07.2023
Cybersecurity Specialist Diploma - undefined
CDI College
Network Administration - undefined
Sundance College
Associate degree - Healthcare
ABES College
1 Year Business Administration - undefined
Université de Moncton
High School - undefined
Lycée Garçons de Bingerville
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