Haider A.

Cybersecurity Engineer and SOC Analyst specializing in CrowdStrike Falcon, SIEM, EDR and XDR, threat hunting and incident response for MSPs, MSSPs and growing businesses. CrowdStrike CCSE and CCFA certified, with 5+ years inside a US based MDR and SIEM provider. I am Haider Ali. I spend my days detecting, hunting and responding to real threats, so you get someone who runs security operations, not someone who only read about them. WHAT I DO FOR YOU SOC Operations: Build a SOC from scratch or tune an existing one. Alert triage, investigation, escalation workflows and clear reporting. Threat Detection and Hunting: Hypothesis driven hunting with MITRE ATT&CK and LOLBAS to find threats that slipped past your perimeter. Detection Engineering: Custom, environment specific rules across SIEM, EDR, XDR and CASB, tuned to cut false positives. Incident Response and Digital Forensics: Containment, investigation, root cause analysis, attacker timeline reconstruction and a report leadership can act on. SIEM, SOAR and EDR Deployment: Log source onboarding, correlation rules, SOAR playbooks, and CrowdStrike Falcon and Kaspersky administration. Cyber Threat Intelligence: OpenCTI, MISP and Group-IB pipelines, STIX/TAXII feeds, and IOCs turned into working detections. Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing: Network, infrastructure and web application testing with prioritized, actionable findings. Security Consulting: Program design, tool selection and team training for startups, MSSPs and security leaders, with no vendor bias. TOOLS SIEM: CrowdStrike Falcon LogScale, CrowdStrike Falcon Next Gen SIEM, Splunk, IBM QRadar, LogRhythm, Wazuh, ELK Stack EDR and XDR: CrowdStrike Falcon, Kaspersky Security Center, Sentinel One Threat Intel: OpenCTI, MISP, Group-IB Cloud and CASB: Skyhigh CASB, Microsoft Azure Security Automation: LogRhythm SOAR, Python, PowerShell VA and PT: Nessus, Burp Suite, Nmap, Metasploit, Kali Linux, Wireshark Network: Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco ASA, Palo Alto Frameworks: MITRE ATT&CK, Kill Chain, OWASP Top 10, NIST, ISO 27001 CERTIFICATIONS CrowdStrike Certified SIEM Engineer (CCSE), CrowdStrike Certified Falcon Administrator (CCFA), Practical Ethical Hacking (TCM Security), Cyber Threat Intelligence 101 (arcX) WHY CLIENTS HIRE ME I work daily at a US based security firm, I bring enterprise grade tool experience, I document everything clearly, and I communicate directly with no overselling. I am available for short projects and long term partnerships. Message me with your environment and goals and I will tell you honestly where to start.