Nabas Motsai

My Name is Manaba Motsai(IT Security Consultant), I work to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and
availability of an organization's data and systems.
My expertise and industry knowledge enable me to help businesses build robust security frameworks and establish
strong defenses against cyber threats, ultimately protecting their operations and reputation. I collaborate with IT
teams and stakeholders when required to implement security solutions such as firewalls, intrusion detection
systems, encryption protocols, and access controls.

2011/02 – 2017/06
Johannesburg,
South Africa

Local Business Support
DSV
•Maintain backup tapes. Support of all VIP Users, Desktop & Printer installation, 
creating and setup User profile.  
•Ran\support whole Jetpark site with 400 users and remote support for 5 Africa sites. 
         Daily management of assets, face to face customer relation, arrange local vendor 
if physical intervention is required for Africa sites .
•1st Level support for all network devices, Escalates & tracking incident to vendors 
according to Sla.
•Data Center First line support.

2008/10 – 2010/02
Boksburg, South Africa

IT Support Engineer
GT Services
•Business site support 
•Maintenance of printers and scanners 
•Software installation and upgrade 
•Maintain configuration of all production machines 
•Creating site images and backups  

2017/07 – 2017/12
Johannesburg,
South Africa

Migration Teamlead
DSV
Manage a team during migration of different sites which includes 
- PC migration.
-Rolling out Thin client .
- Network site cutover, roll out new routers, switches and Access Points, Wireless 
scanner and Printer setup

-New user account creation and merger with old profile, user profile data copying and 
account migration.
- Servers Decommissioning and documents of all IT Asserts.

2018/01 – 2023/01
Johannesburg,
South Africa

Security & Wintel Engineer
DSV
Promoting user awareness of information security practices  
Communicate & Partnered with business for IT Audits task, curate audit findings, 
produce recommendations\mitigations and make sure findings are closed within SLA. 
Collaborate with risk partners through Information Security Deliverables 
Manage risk Dashboard and co-ordinate with global compliance\senior management for 
approval.
Ensuring Systems and process are met within our security standards by Building a 
strong partnership with peer technology groups between AFRI & EMEA region. 
- Coordinates all IT Security 
Incidents, investigation, and Mitigations in Africa region.  
Undertake Incident analysis, raise ticket, tracking, recording and response with ability to 
operate as incident manager. 
Continuous vulnerability scans and vulnerability mitigations.
Threat hunting and incident investigations for all security threats reported from Siem.
Research attacks and techniques reported by SIEM (Monitoring tool).
consulting with System owners regarding any issues(vulnerabilities) and oversee all 
open ticket are manage within SLA.
Weekly & Monthly reports to all system owners (non-standard devices, forbidden 
application, unauthorized devices).
Monitoring, assess and report all IT Security events.  
Provide guidance and guidelines for intrusion prevention and detection on the network.  
Interface with IT stakeholders for all IT security Incident. Documents issues and risk, 
escalated to system owners.  
Escalate all violation to Regional Director .
Making Sure all Key Control (KPI’s) are met within our agreed target. 
Manage individual project in AFRI region to be compliant with Global Standards. 
Advise and recommend technical security direction with support and whitelisting of 
applications.
2023/02 – present Senior IT Security Consultant
BDO
•Cyber Strategy and Planning, 
•Security Risk Management and Incident Response
•Execution of cyber security programs( Awareness, Pentesting, vulnerability scan and 
solutions)
•Manage team resource as per assigned task\ project.
•Cyber Security Maturity Continuous Assessment 
•Planning of cybersecurity engagements, Execution of cyber security programs and 
solutions

2023/06 Certified Information Systems Security Professional( CISSP)
ISC 
2019 – 2022 Cisco Certified Network Associate Security (CCNA Security)
Cisco
2019 – 2022 Certified Ethical Hacker ( CEH)
Torque-it

2015 – 2021 Cisco Certified Network Professional ( CCNP)
Cisco
2019 – 2019 CompTIA Security+
Jeppe College
2019 – 2019 CompTIA Security Analytics Professional( CSAP)
Jeppe College
2012 – 2012 CompTIA A+
Jeppe College
2012 – 2012 CompTIA N+
Jeppe College
2012 – 2012 National Certificate IT System support (NQF Level 5)
Dynamix Business College
2010 – 2010 Microsoft Certified IT Professional( MCITP)
PC Training and Business College

2019 – 2019 CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+)
Jeppe College
2019 – 2019 CompTIA Security+
Jeppe College