Hafeez I.
Paris, France · Lead, Cybersecurity Engineer
INSEAD
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About
Hafeez is an INSEAD MBA graduate with over eight years building and governing enterprise security across telecoms, banking, and consulting. He has protected billions in assets, navigated multi-jurisdictional regulatory environments, and led security transformations that require both technical precision and strategic clarity.
His expertise spans the full security stack. He architects Zero Trust frameworks, governs risk and compliance programmes across ISO 27001, DORA, NIS2, PCI-DSS, and GDPR, and engineers automated security operations that compress detection and response times at enterprise scale. Hafeez brings technical depth and governance rigour to environments where the margin for error is zero.
He believes the measure of great security is not how much it blocks, but how much it enables. Organisations that get security right do not slow down; they move faster because their people operate with confidence rather than caution.
As AI reshapes enterprise operations, he is focused on one of the most consequential security challenges of this decade: ensuring AI systems are built to be trustworthy, compliant, and resilient from the ground up, not as an afterthought but from the start
Skills
- Securonix SIEM
- CrowdStrike EDR
- SOAR Automation
- Python Automation
- Threat Hunting (MITRE ATT&CK)
- Vulnerability Management (Tenable, Qualys)
- Zero Trust Architecture
- Cloud Security (Azure, AWS)
- Firewall Architecture (Checkpoint, Fortinet, Cisco FTD)
- Kubernetes Security
16 skills in total
Experience
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Lead, Cybersecurity Engineer
ACCESS BANK PLC
Dec 2022 — Dec 2024
Lagos, Nigeria
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Lead, Cybersecurity and Digital Transformation
MANIFOLD COMPUTER
Oct 2021 — Nov 2022
Lagos, Nigeria
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Manager, IT Infrastructure and Cybersecurity
VDT COMMUNICATIONS
Jan 2019 — Sep 2021
Lagos, Nigeria
5 experiences in total
Education
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INSEAD
Master of Business Administration
Jan 2025 — Dec 2025
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Federal University of Technology, Minna
Bachelor of Technology, Physics and Electronics
Feb 2007 — Nov 2012