Kasim Mustapha
Support Team Lead at Whitehat.NG
Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
Summary
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Top SchoolKasim Mustapha is a cybersecurity professional and support team lead with three years of hands-on experience across incident response, threat hunting, penetration testing, and network engineering. Based in Abuja, he progressed from network support and security analyst roles into operations and now leads support at Wazuh, bringing practical expertise with SIEM, EDR, malware analysis, and vulnerability management. He has a track record of running security audits, investigating and prioritizing alerts, and using incident response tooling to remediate breaches for clients in both commercial and volunteer settings. Kasim pairs technical troubleshooting with clear reporting and client communication, and his academic background in Cyber Security Science underpins a methodical, root-cause-focused approach to protecting systems. Notably, he combines offensive skills (ethical hacking, pen testing) with day-to-day SOC operations, making him effective at both finding and closing security gaps.
3 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Cyber Security Science, Second Class Honours (Upper Division), Bachelor of Technology, Cyber Security Science, Second Class Honours (Upper Division) at Federal University of Technology Minna
English, Russian, Spanish
Github Skills (30)
wazuh10
security-hardening10
log-analysis10
infosec10
supply-chain-security10
cybersecurity10
security-automation10
openscap10
security10
owasp10
vulnerability-detection10
malware-detection10
endpoints10
compliance10
pci-dss10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
Cyber-MKO/ansible-labs
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
wazuh/wazuh
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.
Contributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 1 push in 15 days
malware-detectionendpointscompliancecloud-securitysecurity-hardening
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