Awwal Ishiaku
Staff Engineer at Wazuh
Nigeria
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Top SchoolAwwal Ishiaku is a Staff Engineer and seasoned cyber defender with six years' experience in threat hunting, malware analysis, and incident response, currently leading threat intelligence at Wazuh. He has hands-on SOC build and operations experience—from deploying SIEMs and virtualization stacks to conducting malware sandboxing and pen tests—helping organizations turn threat research into pragmatic security programs. His background spans applied security roles at CyberPlural and Cyber Dome where he mapped attack surfaces, authored use-case roadmaps, and translated GRC and operational needs into detectable controls. Trained with an MSc in Security and Network Engineering from Innopolis and a B.Tech in Cyber Security, he blends academic rigor with field-tested tradecraft. Notably, he moves seamlessly between deep technical analysis (Cuckoo, any.run, Hybrid Analysis) and strategic threat intelligence, making him effective at both hunting adversaries and advising business stakeholders.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Security and Network Engineering, Master of Science Security and Network Engineering at Innopolis UniversityBachelor of Technology Cyber Security, Bachelor of Technology Cyber Security at Federal University of Technology, Minna
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Github Skills (31)
wazuh10
security-hardening10
log-analysis10
infosec10
cybersecurity10
security-automation10
openscap10
security10
vulnerability-detection10
malware-detection10
endpoints10
compliance10
pci-dss10
incident-response10
cloud-security10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AwwalQuan/nginx-docker-image
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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