Magnificent Memons: Youth Icons-Jibran Ilyas,Boy who won 60,000$ scholarship

Monday, January 3, 2011

Youth Icons-Jibran Ilyas,Boy who won 60,000$ scholarship

Jibran Ilyas, is a Senior Forensic Investigator at Trustwave's SpiderLabs. He is a member of Trustwave's SpiderLabs -the advanced security team focused on penetration testing, incident response, and application security. He has investigated some of nations largest data breaches and is a regular contributor for published security alerts through his research. . The focus of this position is on companies whose credit card data gets stolen. It involves interviews/interrogations with the personnel from the affected companies followed by forensics analysis on the affected companies' hard drives

Fun loving, lively, friendly, creative, genius and successful…..It is really hard to find the best adjective for this young and enthusiastic Memon residing in Chicago, United States.

In his primary school years, Jibran was loved by his teachers and envied by the fellow students for securing the top ranks and getting full attendance awards every year at Boustan-e-Hadi School. Jibran and his family moved to Chicago in 1996 which did not affect Jibran’s academic success record. Jibran joined Senn High School in Chicago at the age of 14 years. There, he worked hard to take advantage of all the educational devices and opportunities he had at his fingertips.

During his senior year he was featured on a game show called “Who Wants to Win a Scholarship”, a replica of a popular game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” or “Kaun Banega Crore Pati” which in itself was a great thing but winning such a show is just like a dream come true, but this magnificent boy has dared to dream and by the grace of Allah has made them come true. Jibran won a full four year scholarship to DePaul University worth 60,000 dollars in that show.

Jibran Ilyas is very fond of cricket, music and poetry. He loves to play keyboard.He had also been involved in social work. He has been Founder and President of Pakistani Students Association of DePaul University(PSA),Vice President Upsilon Pi Epsilon - CTI Honor Society and Co-Vice President of Community National Society of Collegiate Scholars.He had also been a co host of Asian Broadcasting Network.

Jibran holds a Bachelors of Science degree from DePaul University and Masters Degree in Information Technology & Business Management from Northwestern University.

He has 7 years experience and has done security research in the area of computer memory artifacts. Jibran has presented talks at security conferences (DEFCON, SecTor, BlackHat, SOURCE Barcelona) in the area of Computer Forensics and Cyber Crime. Jibran is also a regular guest lecturer at DePaul and Northwestern University. Prior to joining SpiderLabs, Jibran was part of Trustwave's SOC where he helped Fortune 500 clients with their Security Architectures and deployments.