Abdul Javed

My path into security ran through the Apple Genius Bar — two years of live troubleshooting under pressure, where I learned that technical skill only matters if you can bring the person across the counter along with you. That lesson has shaped every role since.

At Karyopharm Therapeutics I moved from privacy into security operations: running GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA assessments and DPIAs, implementing the NIST 800-53 framework — presenting control roadmaps and winning buy-in from IT, legal, and executive stakeholders — and building a phishing awareness program that cut susceptibility by 40% across 200+ employees.

Today at Rapid7 I'm a Senior Cybersecurity Advisor for enterprise MDR and managed vulnerability management accounts, owning the technical relationship from onboarding through renewal and expansion. I lead discovery sessions, tailored demonstrations, and technical validation; present monthly and quarterly business reviews to CISOs and senior management; and advise on security architecture aligned to ISO 27001 and CIS Controls. The job is equal parts security engineering and communication — fluent from SOC analyst to CISO — and that intersection is where I do my best work.

Off the clock I build things. Most recently an AI bid-automation pipeline that turns a manual, multi-hour estimating workflow into a reviewed queue — OAuth integrations, browser automation, and an LLM doing the first-pass document reading, with a human approval gate before anything leaves the building. I'm always tinkering with the next one.