Usman Saeed

▸ Lead delivery of security advisory, incident response, Red Team, and application security services; advise CEOs and CTOs on security strategy, roadmaps, and risk posture, managing engagements end-to-end from scoping to executive reporting.
▸ Perform AI/LLM security architecture reviews and assessments — model integrations, agentic workflows, and data flows against emerging threat frameworks (OWA

Worked as Freelance Cyber Security Consultant at Pro CISO B.V. at DefZero.

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Part of the management team of the Centric Security organization. Responsible for managing and growing the offensive security team (Red Team) within Centric.

Advising the CISO on technical security issues. Furthermore helping the operational teams with security issues and threats!

I am part of the management team for CDS business unit. On the one hand I am pursuing my passion in cyber security by mentoring the consultants and actively participating in engagements. On the other hand, along with the management team, helping build a consultancy business by setting up road-maps, strategy as well as building all the operational components like SOPs, Templates, etc. Furthermore,

Program Manager for the CDS BU. Building and shaping the Cyber Defense Services entity in Centric. Moreover, as a Technical Security Lead, helping the technical security teams with assessments, mentoring and training.

Bridging the gap between organization's top management's percieved vision of their organization's security posture and the real ground situation of their information security infrastructure, by performing:

- Red Team penetration tests
- Conventional penetration tests (Web Application, Mobile app, Digital Infrastructure)
- Trainings
- Awareness drills

Current responsibilities include:

• Creating a Red team Penetration test flow
• Leading the Red Team Penetration tests
• Performing conventional Penetration tests (Web Application, Mobile app, Digital infrastructure)
• Proposal writing

• Pre-sales Presentations
• Penetration Testing including Infrastructure Penetration Test , Web Application Penetration Test , Network Penetration Test.
• Corporate Trainings
• Incident Response
• Security Configuration Reviews
• Vulnerability Assessment for various clients

Volunteer Work ,Organizing Events and Talks.

InfoSec / Ethical Hacking Training
• Vulnerability Research
• Exploit Creation
• Maintained Social network marketing services such as Facebook [ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Xc0re-
Security-Reseach-Group/168397916536539?ref=ts ] , Twitter
http://twitter.com/#!/xc0resecurityrg .
• Maintaining Xc0re Website http://xc0re.net .
• Maintaining Blog http://xc0re.wordpress.com .

Corporate Communication
Penetration Testing
- Red Team Penetration Test
- Infrastructure Penetration Test
- Web App Penetration Test
- Voip Penetration Test
Vulnerability Assessment
Developing Security Training Programs
Developing Security Awareness Programs

Worked as a Freelance Contractor on Web Application Penetration Testing

- Delivered a four day training course on "Ethical Hacking", at Skill Development Council, Islamabad, April, 2011.

- Delivered a four day training course on "Ethical Hacking", at Skill Development Council, Islamabad, April, 2010

- Delivered a two day training course "Ethical Hacking and Counter measures”, at Comsats Institute of `Information Technology, Islamabad, 28-29th June, 2010

- Presented a Seminar at Comsats Institute Of Information Technology, Pakistan, ”Web Application Security”, Monday 11th May , 2009.

Delivered a One Day Training Session/Workshop, organized by Innovative Consultants, “Web Application & Security”

Malware Analysis
Antivirus Benchmarking
Penetration Testing
Exploit Research

Handling Juniper Firewalls
Managing Spam Engine Technologies
Network Security Design
Sun Ray Thin Client Implementation

Jan 2021

Apr 2020

Jun 2017

Feb 2011 · Expired Feb 2013

Aug 2008 · Expired Dec 2013