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Azmat Ali
Enterprise Cybersecurity Architecture
Risk Management, Strategy & Governance

Azmat Ali

A seasoned cybersecurity professional and governance specialist with a proven track record in safeguarding digital infrastructures and ensuring compliance with global standards. My expertise spans risk management, policy development, and implementation of robust security frameworks that align with organizational objectives. Passionate about protecting sensitive data and mitigating emerging threats, I combine technical proficiency with strategic oversight to deliver resilient security programs. With a strong foundation in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), I excel at bridging the gap between technology and business, fostering trust, and driving a culture of security across all levels of an organization.

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What I Do

Security Architecture

Security architecture is the strategic design and implementation of policies, processes, and technologies that protect an organization’s systems, data, and assets from cyber threats while aligning with business objectives.

Risk Management

Risk management is the process of identifying, assessing, and mitigating potential threats to an organization’s assets, operations, and objectives to minimize impact and ensure resilience.

Security Governance

Security governance is the strategic framework of policies, roles, and processes that guide and oversee security decisions to align with business objectives, manage risk, and ensure compliance across the organization.

Compliance

Security compliance is the process of adhering to established laws, regulations, and industry standards to ensure that an organization’s systems, data, and operations remain secure and protected from unauthorized access or breaches.

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12 Years of Experience

Experience

2025 - Current
QIAGEN Hilden

Senior Cybersecurity Architect

Senior Cybersecurity Architect at QIAGEN, responsible for designing and implementing enterprise security architectures, mitigating risks, and ensuring compliance to protect critical systems and data.

2017 - 2025
GFT Technologies SE Eschborn

Cybersecurity Architect

Cybersecurity Architect at GFT Technologies, responsible for designing and implementing enterprise security architectures, mitigating risks, and ensuring compliance to protect critical systems and data.

2015 - 2017
Fraunhofer SIT Darmstadt

Research Assistant

Research Assistant at Fraunhofer SIT Darmstadt, contributing to advanced cybersecurity research and development of secure software engineering.

Fraunhofer SIT Darmstadt

Master Thesis

The thesis automate the process of threat extraction from a recovered architecture of universAAL-IoT platform based example application. This automated threat extraction process aims to assist security experts to analyze the security of IoT applications at architectural level. The extracted threats could be used in security assurance cases to help in security assessment of such apps.

2010 - 2013
Future by Energy London UK

Web & Software Application Engineer

Web and Software Application Engineer specializing in designing, developing, and deploying scalable web solutions and robust software applications.

Education

2017
TU Darmstadt

Masters in Distributed Software Systems

Master’s degree in Distributed Software Systems from TU Darmstadt, specializing in scalable and secure architectures, cloud computing, Security by design and advanced software engineering.

2009
UET Peshawar

Bachelors in Software Engineering

Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from UET Peshawar, focused on software development, system design, and engineering principles.

Publication

2016
Fraunhofer SIT Darmstadt

Towards Effective Security Assurance for Incremental Software Development the Case of Zen Cart Application

(Paper Link) Incremental software development methods, such as Scrum embrace code changes to meet changing customer requirements. However, changing the code of a given software invalidates the security assurance of the software. Thus, each new version of a given software requires a new full security assessment. This paper investigates the impact of incremental development of software on their security assurances using the e-commerce software Zen Cart as a case study. It also describes a prototype we are developing to design security assurance cases and trace the impact of code changes on the security assurance of the given software. A security assurance case shows how a claim, such as "The system is acceptably secure" is supported by objective evidence.

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004917641385222

Darmstadt Germany

info@azmatali.com

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