Author: Syed Taha Ahmed Jafri

Syed Taha Ahmed Jafri

Syed Taha Ahmed Jafri is a highly accomplished information systems leader with a proven ability to lead successful corporate information security and technology operations and facilitate corporate growth through technology-business alignment. 

Mr. Jafri has special expertise in Infrastructure/Enterprise Architecture, solution designing, IT/Security strategies development, program management, and process improvement. He has more than 18 years of experience with double Bachelor’s degrees and multiple certifications. He has extensive familiarity with Banking/financial and technology sectors. Mr. Jafri has excellent presentation, problem-solving, and technical skills and a strong record of success in creating robust and secure IT architectures and infrastructures. 

He has a proven ability to translate business requirements and strategy into innovative and practical infrastructure solutions that provide for the enterprise’s need for performance, reliability, availability, and security while managing cost and risk.

Mr. Jafri has led the deployment of numerous applications and IT solutions. He provides strategic direction to senior management on technology and security and provides leadership vision enterprise-wide via decisive and insightful executive leadership, guiding daily operations and policy implementation through strategic thinking and decision-making.

From the Summer 2023 Issue

Defense In Depth and DMZ WEB Server Deployment

Author(s):

Syed Taha Ahmed Jafri, Information Security Specialist,

Defense In Depth and DMZ

Introduction This article will discuss Defense in Depth (DID) in detail and minimum steps to securely deploy a Web server in DMZ for a FinTech 3-tier application. 3-TIER ARCHITECTURE In software engineering the methodology of 3-tier architecture is used to divide an application into logical boundaries. These boundaries are logical and their main benefit is … Read more

From the Winter 2021 Issue

What You Don’t Know About Ransomware Can be a Risk

Author(s):

Bradford P. Meisel, Esq., Associate, McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP (Co-author)

Diane D. Reynolds, Partner, McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP (Co-author)

Dr. Bernard A. Jones, CBCP, Assistant Professor, St. John’s University (Co-author)

Dr. Michael C. Redmond, PhD, Founder and CEO, Redmond Worldwide

Syed Taha Ahmed Jafri, Information Security Specialist,

Ransomware

Unfortunately, organizations continue to suffer debilitating impacts on operations due to both natural and human-made threats. One human-made threat, which continues to top the list of risks that organizations fear the most, is cybercrime. Cybercrime comes in many different forms, with ransomware specifically cited as the preeminent threat that impacts organizations worldwide. The severe ransomware … Read more