Kelebogile Dire
Pretoria
Overview
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2
Languages
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Certification
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
OT Cybersecurity Engineer
Mercedes-Benz South Africa
East London, South Africa
05.2023 - Current
- Led successful OT cybersecurity audits for domains such as network security, backup & recovery and risk, asset and vulnerability management.
- Led successful OT cybersecurity yearly audits for domains such as network security and risk, asset, vulnerability management.
- Conducted emergency response exercises, delivered cybersecurity awareness and training campaigns to improve organisational security culture.
- Supported incident response activities by identifying, containing and remediating cybersecurity threats while minimizing impact on production.
- Coordinated OT vulnerability scanning and prioritised remediation activities to effectively reduce the attack surface.
- Performed OT risk assessments by identifying security gaps and implementing mitigating measures to reduce the risk exposure.
- Collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders across engineering, manufacturing, and IT teams to integrate cybersecurity controls into operational environments without disrupting production.
- Monitored and secured OT network architecture through network segmentation, firewall ruleset management and governance.
- Strengthened endpoint security by implementing antivirus solutions, conducting firmware updates and performing system hardening.
- Coordinated the OT patch management process, including patch whitelisting, importing, sandbox testing and implementation across production environments.
- Implemented and maintained automatic and manual backup creation and validation to ensure data availability during recovery in cases of cyber attacks.
- Provisioned and maintained secure remote access solutions for internal and external stakeholders while ensuring compliance with cybersecurity requirements.
- Managed logical and physical access controls, ensuring secure privileged account administration and user access change management.
- Managed the complete OT asset management process, including onboarding, maintenance, inventory governance and secure decommissioning.
Digitalization and Cybersecurity Intern
Mercedes-Benz South Africa
East London, South Africa
05.2021 - 04.2023
- Conducted cybersecurity awareness campaigns and training, enhancing organisational understanding of cyber threats and best practices.
- Coordinated IoT project, implementing predictive maintenance and configuring ICS devices for seamless SAP integration.
- Developed business-specific dashboards using QlikSense to visualise data and support decision-making.
- Participated in cross-functional teams to roll out manufacturing systems and best practices in the maintenance division.
- Collaborated with team members on various projects to enhance workflow efficiency. a 3-shift model to gain technical knowledge of bodyshop including PLCs, Robotics and cold joining technologies such as riveting and clinching.
Education
Bachelor of Commerce Honours - Information Systems
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa01-2027
Bachelors Degree - Electrical Engineering
University of Johannesburg
Johannesburg, GP01-2020
Skills
- Cybersecurity management
- Network security
- Vulnerability management
- Risk assessment
- Incident response
- Cybersecurity audits
- Endpoint security
- Project management
- Root Cause Analysis
- Manufacturing processes knowledge
- Electrical engineering
- PLC programming
- Creative problem solving
- Analytical and critical thinking
- Communication skills
- MS Office Suite
Languages
English
Advanced
C1
German
Beginner
A1
Certification
- Certified OT Security Technical Expert (COSTE), Limes Security (2024)
- Certified OT Security Practitioner (COSP), Limes Security (2023)
- Ondeso SR Administrator, Acurity (2023)
- Virtual Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity (301V) Training, CISA (2023)
- Simatic TIA Programming 1, Siemens (2022)
- Basic KRC2 Robotics, KUKA (2021)
- MPS Basic Lean Manufacturing, MBSA (2021)
- MS Office Training, JHJ Training (2021)
Accomplishments
- Developed and implemented eLearning training, achieving 80% completion rate, improving employee cybersecurity vigilance across the plant.
- Completed the OT Zero Trust workshop with a maturity level of 22.4% (Higher than the average maturity level of 20.59% across other manufacturing plants)
- Oversaw vulnerability mitigation project where 94.3% of detected vulnerabilities were closed.
- Successfully migrated the local software and asset management tool to a new data center without external support, saving the company £65K.
- Successfully achieved A+ rating for two consecutive year in the cybersecurity audits.
Timeline
OT Cybersecurity Engineer
Mercedes-Benz South Africa
05.2023 - Current
Digitalization and Cybersecurity Intern
Mercedes-Benz South Africa
05.2021 - 04.2023
Bachelor of Commerce Honours - Information Systems
University of Cape Town
Bachelors Degree - Electrical Engineering
University of Johannesburg