I have +20 years' experience in IT and InfoSec field, I’ve been one of the youngest in my origin country to get certified on heterogeneous environments, and one of the few in implementing/integrating heterogeneous environments and providing security controls for it. In the last 15+ years I've been working on sales and business development for InfoSec technologies and vendors in Middle East and Africa with a track record of achievements and awards for my employers and myself, Also I’ve been usual a public speaker and spokesperson in all my employers, employers include:
As MEA Region Leader at IBM Security Since Oct-2016 till end of 2018, started with developing and managing all the aspects of IBM Resilient business in MEA from scratch, over achieved all set goals and objectives and we got “The Most New Logos – Globally 2017” Award. Then prompted to manage all the threat management portfolio that includes Resilient, QRadar, Watson Cyber Security, XForce, CP4S Hybrid Multi-cloud Security Platform and leading the team and operations for the segment in MEA for a business of $45M a year.
As Director, Sales and Business Development for 36 Months at Kaspersky Lab - MEA, I was responsible to develop the new enterprise security portfolio (non-endpoint) leading sales, business development and channel management operations which started with 7 talented professionals and grow to 30 team members with key achievements such as The Best Newcomer Global Award in 2014, selling the first deals globally for Anti-Fraud, Security Intelligence Services and Industrial Cyber Security and becoming the No1 office for enterprise-bookings globally. By mid of 2014 I become responsible for all B2B $32M business and achieved growth of 35% YoY (average YoY was 12%).
As Regional Sales Manager for 26 months in Computerlinks-Arrows, I was responsible for a $12M business and leading a team of 6 professionals for managing RSA Enterprise Security Portfolio in MEA, this included developing business plans', reporting, managing sales, channel, product and operations. For first time, Computerlinks-Arrows awarded as Distributor of The Year for EMEA for the first time ever for my employer, achieved 32% growth for total revenue, 200% growth for incremental business, overachieved all sales targets, and I was the only official certified instructor for RSA Sales Professional Curriculum in MEA.
As Sales and Presales Manager for ValueSYS for around 6 years, I demonstrated high level of achievements by maintaining a growth rate of 40%+ on yearly basis, permanently over-achieving the assigned targets, earned many awards for the products I manage, led a team of 8 sales and presales professionals, and I was a usual speaker in all ValueSYS events in North East Africa.
As Sales and Presales Manager for ValueSYS for around 6 years, I demonstrated high level of achievements by maintaining a growth rate of 40% on yearly basis, permanently over-achieving the assigned personal and team targets, earned many awards for the products I manage, lead a team of 18 sales and presales professionals, and I was a usual speaker in all ValueSYS events (Seminars, Exhibitions, ..etc) in Egypt and North Africa.
My areas of expertise, professional experience along with qualifications as detailed in the following articles:
Articles - this section includes all my articles' writings starting from 1998 till present, the section includes articles about Open Source, Cyber Security, Business, Technical, Courses and Certifications :)
I have thousands of text files that include everything I learnt. I usually write down all the stuff that I do, starting from a small tip, specific experience, fast study till my professional work experiences and learnings and I am sharing all that articles here, I hope that stuff be useful to other people instead of just locking them in my desk.
Your can contribute to this section and your contribution is highly welcomed and appreciated. Just pick a topic, write it in the preferred way, send it and let's share it under your name. Although all my writings in this section are in English but I am going to add Arabic content to enrich the Arabic content on the internet when it comes to Cyber Security, so no specific language for this section, you can write in العربية, English, Frankoarab or/and any MIX of them. simply write in the language you prefer and express your/my writings in the best way.
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This category "Open Source and Linux", includes a lot of articles about FOSS, OSS, FLOSS, LAMP and maybe any open source related software. I am a RHCE (RedHat Certified Engineer) ,NCLE/NCLP (Novell Certified Linux Engineer/Professional) and these certifications are the highest ones in Open Source and Linux world. As a result, the articles in this category is highly related to my professional work as Technical Engineer and I used to use them as a guidelines during my professional technical services to enterprise customers.
Technology Articles - this section includes all my technical and technology writings starting from 1998 till present, the section includes articles about Open Source, Linux, Security, Microsoft, Networks, Applications, Systems, How-Tos, Cool Tools and tricky tips :)
I have thousands of text files that include everything I learnt. I usually write down all the stuff that I do, starting from a small tip, specific experience, fast study till my professional work experiences and learnings and I am sharing all that technical and technology stuff here, I hope that stuff be useful to other people instead of just locking them in my desk.
Your can contribute to this section and your contribution is highly welcomed and appreciated. Just pick a topic, write it in the preferred way, send it and let's share it under your name. Although all my writings in this section are in English but I am going to add Arabic content to enrich the Arabic content on the internet when it comes to Cyber Security, so no specific language for this section, you can write in العربية, English, Frankoarab or/and any MIX of them. simply write in the language you prefer and express your/my writings in the best way.
All content in this section published under Creative Commons License, the main categories in this section as the following, please click on category link below to list all articles in specific category or use the side/main menu to navigate as well.
This section includes all my articles' writings about Cyber Security starting from 1998 till present and where my key expertise technically, and commercially is.
I have done thousands of engagements technical wise and business wise when it comes to Cyber Security, that involved all stages of work like technical, presales, sales, business development, technology comparisons, deployments, project management and providing support as well, I also have thousands of text files that include everything I learnt. I usually write down all the stuff that I do, starting from a small tip, specific experience, fast study till my professional work experiences and learnings and I am sharing all that articles here, I hope that stuff be useful to other people instead of just locking them in my desk.
Your can contribute to this section and your contribution is highly welcomed and appreciated. Just pick a topic, write it in the preferred way, send it and let's share it under your name. Although all my writings in this section are in English but I am going to add Arabic content to enrich the Arabic content on the internet when it comes to Cyber Security, so no specific language for this section, you can write in العربية, English, Frankoarab or/and any MIX of them. simply write in the language you prefer and express your/my writings in the best way.
All content in this section published under Creative Commons License, the main categories in this section as the following, please click on category link below to list all articles in specific category or use the side/main menu to navigate as well.
This section is an operational section for the portal, it includes many content that used across the website for design and development purposes.
All content in this section published under Creative Commons License, the main categories in this section as the following, please click on category link below to list all articles in specific category or use the side/main menu to navigate as well.
I travel almost 70% of my time or more ..
Yes more than 70% I am onboard an airplane going somewhere for business, pleasure, amazing adventure or just for a meditation and relaxation.
More than 70% that represents a big portion of my time and definitely I have to try to make the best use of it, understanding cultures, discovering new things, meeting people and do my best to enjoy every business meeting I am doing ..
My travel usually is one of three things, first is my favorite thing to do ever, - Road Trips, I just land somewhere by myself or with my partner in crimes, rent a car and go on a road trip for 10+ days where I discover hidden gems, really see the country/place with a different eye till I reach a destination I use to take off and go back home!
Second type of travel I do is Touristic Personal Trips, usually that's the relaxing or touristic type of travel for myself and my family, not that intense and adventure-driven type like Road trips but in this type we do what simply people do .. chilling out, enjoying sights, have nice local meals ..etc
Third type you have to guess of course!! YES IT's THE BUSINESS TRIPS, and despite of the fact I manage a wide and diverse region like Middle East and Africa that sometimes you have to be on airplane for 14 hours to reach your destination in Africa, still 80% of the trips are 1-3 days, it's that type of quick trips .. land, meet meet meet, run to catch your airplane and jump into your bed before your wife wakes up and gave you that lovely look :)
Here, in this part I document the trips, the experience, the people, the joy, the pressure, the crazy time flying, but I promise you will find very interesting stuff that you can get use of..
This type of the trips, it's the most favorite one for me and my family and friends and we have to do it at least a couple of times every year ..
I just land somewhere by myself or with my partner in crimes, rent a car and go on a road trip for 10+ days where I discover hidden gems, really see the country/place with a different eye till I reach a destination I use to take off and go back home!
Sometimes, it's really well planned and organized - we know exactly which countries, which cities, which hotels and which activities we do ..
and MOST OF THE TIME, iIT's PLAN AS YOU GO .. :) we just land decide on the landing and departing countries with specific dates and every thing in the middle as we go .. on every single day, we decide the next city, the next hotel booking, the next activity, and THAT"s AMAZING .. that really makes us discover a lot of interesting stuff that no one usually see, have different experience and adapt to many situations that can be really nice or can be disastrous and you have to deal with it :)
As most of the trips are really intense, have minimal levels of rest and sleep, the usually feeling we have that OK now we finish, now we need to have an actual vacation .. :) and with experience we learnt to make it exactly that way .. we start with the intense adventurous road trip across countries for 10-15 days, then we have the relaxing trip for 3-5 days to recover :)
Here, in this part I document the trips, the route, the experience, the people, the joy, the pressure, the nice moments and the CRAZY ONES, I have really big number of road trips, so here's the list that I have added and hopefully I keep adding the rest ..
Here, I tell you about the business trips .. those trips have really a unique nature ..
It's the one day trips to other countries that sometimes 5 hours away and you still do it in the same day as if you just going to another city for a meeting - you wake up, fly, land, meet meet meet, take off, land and sleep :)
It's the trips that we can have three of them in the same exact week ..
It's the trips that give you an outstanding moment with your employer as you get recognized ..
It's the trips that give you a joyful moment with your employer as they reward their own people with new experiences, relaxing moments and trips to charge them up ..
It's the trips in which we enjoy the most meeting new people whether we are meeting an end customer and/or business partners, honestly just being in front an organization speaking and talking technology it's a real joy for me, sometimes because we are doing and executing the most important part of the business, sometimes because the discussions are really fruitful and enjoyable with informative exchange, sometimes because just being in front of an organization talking, speaking, discussing about the work you love and have passion for can take you away the most depressing moments that you might have at different stages of your life .. and SOMETIMES IT'S ALL OF THAT ..
AND, that's what you gonna find here .. :) all the different types of business trips with various employers. HERE, you will read about the trips, the destination, the experience, the people, -- that's really a big number of business trips, so here's the list that I have added and hopefully I keep adding the rest soon and as I go in life ..
Do you remember when I told you in the Road Trips category that after the crazy adventurous road trips, we had by time to plan the relaxing trip directly after the intense road trip :) ..
OK, that's what you gonna find here .. :) the nice relaxing trips, the touristic ones that planned on its own or directly after an intense road trip for having some relaxing time and nice touristic normal stuff so we recover before going back home ..
Usually doing touristic trips are exhausting in nature .. but for us it's not really the case! after all the crazy and intense times of road trips, when we have that touristic trips it's just like OK WE ARE SO SLOW .. and it becomes the relaxing time for us :)
Those Touristic Trips, sometimes, it's really well planned and organized especially if it's associated with a well organized and planned road trip or it's a standalone trip for few days but MOST OF THE TIME, IT's PLAN AS YOU GO .. :) we just pick a country or a place and directly after we finish the road trip, we simply travel to that destination and we take it from there step by step day by day ..
Here, in this part I document the trips, the destination, the experience, the people, the joy, the pressure, the nice moments and the CRAZY ONES, I have really big number of touristic trips, so here's the list that I have added and hopefully I keep adding the rest ..