Mahmud Ab Rahman currently works as Information Security Specialist for Malaysia Computer Emergency and Response Team (MyCERT) under umbrella of CyberSecurity Malaysia. Prior to that, he worked as an Intrusion Analyst at MyCERT department. His education background comprises of Master Degree in Computer Science from National University of Malaysia in 2006. Prior to that, he obtained a Degree in Computer Science from the same university.

Mahmud has been involved in the computer security field for over 5 years. His area of focus and interest is network security, honeynet, botnet monitoring, and malware analysis. He also engages in several large scale penetration-testing exercises and to provide solutions for any vulnerability detected. Moreover, he is recognized for conducting numbers of training for organizations to talk on topics ranging from introduction to advanced security courses.

He is a occasional speaker at conferences such as FIRST Technical Colloquium, FIRST Annual Conference, Honeynet Annual Security Conference, Honeynet Project HackInTheBox SIGINT and Infosec.MY

He currently holds a GIAC's GPEN, GREM and CISCO's (CCNA,CCNP). On 2010, he wrote a paper on "Getting Owned By Malicious PDF" for GIAC GPEN Gold certification. Twitter: @yomuds