Cybersecurity advisory Abu Dhabi

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Zero Trust. SASE. Cloud Security. Done by Practitioners.

Zero Trust architecture, SASE transformation, and cloud security, delivered by practitioners who have protected 100K+ users at Fortune 500 scale.

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Attique Bhatti

Enterprise Security Consultant
The Cyber Adviser
Certifications
PCNSECISSPAWS SecurityAzure SecurityGIAC GCFA
15+
Years
100K+
Users Protected
50+
Engagements
TA

Tanveer Ahmed

Independent Network Security Consultant
Prisma Access & SASE Specialist, Milton, Ontario, Canada
Specialisations
SASEZTNACASBDLPSWGPrisma Access
Certifications
PCNSEPCCSACNSSAlgoSec
25+
Years
CCIE
Certified
Prisma
Access SME

Platform Expertise

Advisory Depth Across Enterprise Platforms

Certified, hands-on expertise across the vendors that power modern enterprise security and cloud.

PANWActive Practice

Palo Alto Networks

Prisma Access · Cortex · Strata · XSIAM

CHKPActive Practice

Check Point

Quantum · Harmony · CloudGuard · Infinity

FTNTActive Practice

Fortinet

FortiGate · FortiEDR · FortiSASE · FortiAnalyzer

AZUREActive Practice

Microsoft Azure

Defender · Sentinel · Entra ID · Purview

AWSActive Practice

AWS

GuardDuty · Security Hub · WAF · IAM Identity Center

GCPActive Practice

Google Cloud

Chronicle · SCC · BeyondCorp · Mandiant

ZSActive Practice

Zscaler

ZIA · ZPA · ZDX · ZTNA

CRWDActive Practice

CrowdStrike

Falcon · Insight XDR · Identity · Cloud

NSActive Practice

Netskope

SSE · CASB · SWG · ZTNA Next

Prisma AccessActive Practice

SASE cloud delivery, remote access and branch security

Lead: Tanveer Ahmed
Prisma SD-WANActive Practice

Software-defined WAN with application-defined policies

Lead: Tanveer Ahmed
CASBActive Practice

Cloud access security broker for SaaS visibility and data protection

Lead: Tanveer Ahmed
SWGActive Practice

Secure Web Gateway, web traffic inspection and filtering

Lead: Tanveer Ahmed
ZTNAActive Practice

Zero Trust Network Access, identity-based application access

Lead: Tanveer Ahmed
AlgoSecActive Practice

Firewall policy management and security change automation

Lead: Tanveer Ahmed

Strategic Practice

Strategic Security Expertise

Zero Trust Architecture

Identity-first, least-privilege architectures across user, workload and data planes.

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SASE Transformation

Converging network and security on a cloud-delivered edge, faster, safer, simpler.

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Cloud Security

Multi-cloud posture, workload and data protection across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

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Executive Advisory

Board-level cybersecurity strategy, risk and regulatory guidance for CISOs and CIOs.

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Security Automation

SOAR, XSOAR and XSIAM programs that reduce MTTR and analyst fatigue.

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99.9%
Deployment Success
100K+
Users Protected
50+
Enterprise Engagements
15+
Years Experience

Philosophy

Security as a Strategic Enabler

Security architecture is not about building walls. It's about enabling secure access to the right resources, for the right people, at the right time.

, Attique Bhatti

For two decades, cybersecurity has been framed as a cost of doing business, an expensive, reactive layer bolted onto the network perimeter. That framing is obsolete. In a cloud-native, identity-driven world, security is the foundation that makes modern business possible.

Our Zero Trust approach puts identity and context at the centre of every access decision. We design architectures where users, devices, workloads and data are continuously verified , not trusted by virtue of network location. The result is a security posture that is both stronger and more flexible, enabling rather than constraining the business.

Interactive Tools

Engineering-Grade Calculators

Free tools used by security architects worldwide, hosted on thecyberadviser.com.

Prisma Access Sizing Calculator

Size mobile users, remote networks and infrastructure nodes for Palo Alto Prisma Access deployments.

Launch Tool

SIEM Sizing Calculator

Estimate EPS, log volume and storage for Splunk, Sentinel, QRadar and XSIAM environments.

Launch Tool

Unified Migration Tool

Accelerate policy migration across Palo Alto, Check Point, Fortinet and Cisco firewalls.

Launch Tool

Knowledge Base

Field-Tested Insights

Palo Alto12 min

Prisma Access HA Design Patterns at Scale

Jun 2025Read
Architecture9 min

Zero Trust Network Access vs. VPN: When to Migrate

Jun 2025Read
Check Point15 min

Check Point R81.20 → R82 Upgrade Playbook

May 2025Read
Fortinet11 min

FortiGate SD-WAN Performance Tuning Guide

May 2025Read
Architecture14 min

Designing a Multi-Vendor SASE Strategy

Apr 2025Read
Palo Alto18 min

Palo Alto XSIAM: Deploying Automation Playbooks

Apr 2025Read

Case Studies

Proven at Enterprise Scale

Global Bank Prisma Access Rollout, case study
Prisma Access
85,000 users 42 countries

Global Bank Prisma Access Rollout

78% WAN cost reduction, 99.97% availability over 18 months.

Telco SD-WAN Modernisation, case study
Prisma SD-WAN
1,200 branches North America

Telco SD-WAN Modernisation

Legacy MPLS retired; application performance up 3.4x.

Healthcare SOC Automation, case study
Cortex Operations
12,000 endpoints Canada

Healthcare SOC Automation

MTTR reduced from 4.1 hours to 22 minutes with XSOAR playbooks.

Government Network Security Refresh, case study
Network Security
30,000 users UAE

Government Network Security Refresh

NGFW + IPS refresh aligned to NESA with 99.99% uptime.

Next Step

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