Tareq Alkhatib
Product Manager at Fortinet
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTareq Alkhatib is a product-minded security professional with 8+ years building detection, threat-hunting, and cloud security capabilities across enterprises and tooling vendors. He has moved from hands-on reverse engineering and large-scale data analysis at Symantec and Sophos to founding product features and alerting modules at Palantir, then into cloud research at Lacework and now product management at Fortinet. Tareq combines deep technical chops—PySpark pipelines, Splunk monitoring, AWS migrations and malware analysis—with a habit of automating repeat work and improving quality (e.g., contributing test automation to the widely-used Sigma rule repository). He’s led small teams, shaped acquisition security playbooks, and translated operational needs into detection strategies and product features. Based in Old Toronto, he blends practitioner experience with product leadership to make security signals more actionable and maintainable. An uncommon strength is his track record of turning investigative research into reusable engineering and testing assets that scale across organizations.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Master of Engineering in Internetworking, MEng, Master of Engineering in Internetworking at Dalhousie UniversityB.Sc., Computer Engineering, B.Sc., Computer Engineering at Jordan University of Science and Technology
Arabic, English
Github Skills (10)
unit-testing10
python10
unit-test10
test-automation10
testing10
security9
yaml9
ids4
monitoring4
sia4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SigmaHQ/sigma
Dec 2018 - Jul 2022
Main Sigma Rule Repository
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:27 commits, 18 PRs, 8 comments in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Tareq primarily contributed to the testing framework of the Sigma rule repository. Their work included adding new tests to validate rule compliance with MITRE ATT&CK framework and correct file extensions. Furthermore, the user implemented tests to check for duplicate filters and unnecessary conditional logic within the Sigma rules themselves. The user's contributions focused on improving the quality and maintainability of the rule definitions by automating various checks.
signaturessysmonrulesecurityids
TareqAlKhatib/ATTACK_data_sources
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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