Abdur Rahman Sarker
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Founded CyberX Mentor in 2016 after a decade running security for financial institutions. Sets the direction across all four divisions and still personally leads enterprise engagements.
Background
Nasir spent eleven years inside banking and telecom security before founding CyberX Mentor, most recently as Chief Information Security Officer for a regional financial group where he rebuilt the security operations function from scratch. He started the institute after repeatedly failing to hire people with practical skills — the conclusion was that the training had to be built rather than bought. He remains hands-on: he chairs the curriculum review each quarter and personally leads enterprise consulting engagements above a certain size.
Selected highlights
- Built and scaled the institute from 1 classroom to 4 divisions
- Led security programmes for 3 scheduled banks
- Advisor to the national CERT working group
Areas of expertise
At a glance
- Role
- Founder & Chief Executive Officer
- Experience
- 18 years
- Education
- MSc Information Security, Royal Holloway, University of London
- Certifications
- CISSP, CISM, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
- Divisions
- Leadership