Talha Bin Tariq

Key Projects:

• An ATM Channel Reconciliation System (iJournal), for proactive fraud management and detection of potentially disputed or faulty transactions b/w the ATM, middleware-switch and banking host.
• A real-time system monitoring & decision support system (iWatch) through Windows Management Instrumentation & SNMP. The product is deployed at more than 20 Financial Institutions in EMEA.
• A Remote Administration / Command Execution Tool with Remote agent installation of applications.
• A prototype for Biometrics over ATM's integrated with the middleware.
• e-Ticketing on SSTs for PIA with cash acceptance, Middleware interfaces and backend (SABRE) communication.
• A real-time http, ftp, IDS log analyzer with a WebUI and customized reports for forensic analysis.
• Customization, Enhancement, and Solution integration of an OCRM with an IVR, Middleware and Source System within a Call Centre environment. (Central Depository Company)

International Deployments:

• Deployed a monitoring solution over the ATM network at Union National Bank Head Office (UAE). [ Jan 2006 ]
• Represented NCR Pakistan FSG in NCR Dubai Road Show [ September, 2005 ].

Major Academic Projects :

• [ Final Year Project ] IP Call Recorder – An open source IP call recorder with packet sniffer and SIP / RTP protocol analyzer. Also developed a CTI Server on top of asterisks. (Java, MySQL, libpcap, asterisks).
• Code and Documentation available at wiserecorder.sourceforge.net.
• [ Software Engineering II ] Model Based [system] Architecting and Software Engineering [ MBASE ] – Term paper.
• [ Network Security ] Deployed a HoneyNet (ROO), NIDS (Snort) & Firewall (IPTables) as a study project.
• [ Computer Networks ] Project WISA – A P2P File Sharing System with a central server. (Java).
• [ Network Programming ] Front ends of some application layer protocols (Traceroute, NNTP, FTP, NTP)
• WIT [ Wise IP Tracer ] – Country information retrieval from IP address and UDP traceroute. (C#, Perl).
• [ Data Structures ] The Escape – A 2.5D Action/ Strategy game developed using DirectX. (VC++, DirectX).
• [ Operating Systems ] The FAST VM – An OS simulation as a Virtual Machine. (C++, Assembly).
• [ Assembly Programming ] Wise DiskDoctor – FAT formatter, tools for individual disk sectors IO & disk encryption.
• [ Database Systems ] TnM Transport Service – Simulation Project for a fictional transport company. (Java, Oracle).
• Helped developing and setting up an open source Linux lab at the university campus from old scrapped PCs.

Freelance Projects:

• BRITO [ Content Management System ] [ C#, ASP.NET, Crystal Reports, SQLServer, Flash ].
• OAT [ Oracle Auditing Tool ] – A POC pen-test tool. Exploits some of the known vulnerabilities of Oracle. Includes SID Enumeration, Passwords tests [common/ dictionary]. Supports attachment of malformed shell codes with TCP packets for crashing the remote server or gain DBA privileges on it. (C, C#, MSDE). www.secure-bytes.com/FreeToolsSetup/OraTNSCheck.msi
• All Media Studios [ www.allmediastudios.com ] – [ Flash + PHP / MySQL ].
• Sheikh Deedat Centre [ www.sheikhdeedatcentre.com ] – [ Flash, PHP, Windows Media Encoder ] .