Saiqa Abbas

IT Administrator

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Feb 2003 - Present • 23 yrs 8 mos

MICROSOFT 365 & ENTERPRISE SECURITY OPERATIONS Secured corporate Microsoft 365 identities, email pipelines, and business-critical collaboration data across Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams. Established high-fidelity authentication baselines via Entra ID (Azure AD), strictly implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and adaptive Conditional Access policies to prevent compromised logins. Proactively monitored identity-based threat vectors by analyzing Entra ID sign-in logs, mitigating high-risk user alerts, and blocking legacy authentication vulnerabilities. Architected and audited Microsoft Entra Application Registrations, strictly governing OAuth API permissions, credentials, secrets management, and basic API security. Constructed and maintained comprehensive Microsoft Defender for Office 365 protections, customizing anti-phishing controls, anti-spam configurations, Safe Links, and Safe Attachments rules. Configured and continuously optimized Microsoft Defender for Endpoint baselines, deploying attack surface reduction (ASR) rules, configuring EDR policies, and performing incident remediation. Implemented enterprise-level Data Loss Prevention (DLP) parameters to monitor and automatically restrict unauthorized external data flows. AZURE CLOUD, AI, AND SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION Infrastructure Delivery: Provisioned and structured advanced, multi-tier Azure resource groups (including metafinanz-foodland setups) to scale internal development and system operations. Virtual Compute & Networking: Configured and fortified Linux compute instances (such as mfFoodLandLinux01) alongside public IP interfaces and isolated virtual networks (VNETs) restricted by custom Network Security Groups (NSGs). AI Capabilities Deployment: Integrated and managed state-of-the-art Azure AI Foundry frameworks, Azure OpenAI connections, and Speech services (e.g., helga-openai, helga-stt) to foster modern developer workflows. High Availability & Backups: Implemented disas