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Introduction
Work Experience
Communities & Appearances
Technical skills
Education
Asia/Riyadh
English
Arabic

Abdulmalik Banaser

Security Detection & Response Engineer
Abdulmalik is a Senior Security Engineer working across detection engineering, cloud security, and incident response. He focuses on designing the systems behind security operations, from automated evidence collection and response workflows to detection-as-code pipelines that scale across environments.

Work Experience

SITEMAR 2026 - Present
Detection & Automation Engineering Consultant·Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
CIPHERAPR 2025 - MAR 2026
Sr. Detection Engineer & Team Lead·Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Amazon.comNOV 2023 - MAR 2025
Security Engineer·Seattle, WA, United States
Akamai TechnologiesMAY 2023 - NOV 2023
Detection & Response Engineer·Boston, MA, United States
RIT Global Cybersecurity InstituteDEC 2022 - MAY 2023
Security Engineer·Rochester, NY, United States
NetJetsJUN 2022 - AUG 2022
Security Engineer·Columbus, OH, United States
MCITMAY 2021 - JUN 2022
Security Engineer·Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Communities & Appearances

2021 - Present
Active member and contributor to the Hemaya Operations.
This session explores how Detection-as-Code makes detection engineering scalable and repeatable through pipelines, testing, version control, and automation.
2019 - 2023
Executive Board Member, Operations Lead, and a Red/Blue/Black Team Member for the RITSEC Club.

Technical skills

PlatformsExperienced across cloud, virtualization, and operating system environments.
AWS
Docker
OpenStack
VMware
GCP
Linux
macOS
ToolingSecurity-related tools and frameworks.
Velociraptor
Volatility
FTK
MobSF
Thor Scanner
Radare2 (r2)
Kape
CrowdStrike Falcon
Osquery
Code & AutomationBuilding, scripting, and automating infrastructure at scale.
Go
Python
Ansible
Terraform
PowerShell
Bash

Education

Rochester Institute of TechnologyAUG 2022 - MAY 2023
Master of Science in Computing Security
Rochester Institute of TechnologyAUG 2019 - MAY 2022
Bachelor of Science in Computing Security