Ghareeb Thiab

Ghareeb Thiab is a Cybersecurity Instructor at CODED and the Co-Founder and CTO of NetworX. He is based in Kuwait City, Kuwait. He has over six years of experience in cybersecurity, IT audit, governance, risk and compliance (GRC), and Blue Team security operations.

He holds the CISSP and CISA, three GIAC certifications (GCIH, GSEC, GFACT), the Cisco CCNA, six CompTIA certifications (CASP+, PenTest+, CySA+, Security+, Network+, A+), and seven CompTIA stackable certifications. He is a graduate of the Central Bank of Kuwait Cyber Security Leaders Program and serves on the GIAC Advisory Board.

He is a Cybersecurity Instructor at CODED, where he has trained 150+ professionals in hands-on Blue Team and Red Team skills. He is also the IT and cybersecurity consultant to the President of the American University of Kuwait (AUK). He co-founded NetworX and is its CTO. NetworX gives small and medium-sized businesses managed security, SOC monitoring, cybersecurity consulting, and incident response. Before this, he completed 35+ IT and cybersecurity audits at Gulf Bank of Kuwait.

Ghareeb Thiab is based in Kuwait City, Kuwait.

At CODED, he teaches Blue Team and Red Team fundamentals. Topics include SIEM, digital forensics and incident response (DFIR), threat hunting, malware analysis, and Active Directory attack paths. He also teaches the basics of Linux, Windows, and networking, and has taught AI courses for Khafji Joint Operations (KJO). He has given a memory forensics workshop at Kuwait University and cybersecurity awareness workshops for government staff. Through the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) Al-Soor initiative, he gave cybersecurity awareness seminars to high-school students in all six governorates of Kuwait.

NetworX is a cybersecurity and IT consulting company focused on business clients (B2B) that Ghareeb Thiab co-founded in January 2022. It serves multiple clients, including the education sector and medium-sized businesses. It provides managed security, Security Operations Center (SOC) monitoring, cybersecurity consulting, and digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) to small and medium-sized businesses, and advises clients on IT strategy, network security, and firewall design. He is its Co-Founder and CTO.

Ghareeb Thiab has over six years of professional experience in cybersecurity and IT audit. Since 2020, he has worked at the Public Institution for Social Security, Gulf Bank of Kuwait, CODED, and NetworX, which he co-founded in 2022.

He has worked in banking and finance at Gulf Bank of Kuwait, and in government at the Public Institution for Social Security. He has also worked in education at CODED and the American University of Kuwait, and in cybersecurity and IT consulting at NetworX, which he co-founded.

Yes. He uses AI and LLM agents to support Blue Team work, such as alert triage, log analysis, threat hunting, and detection writing, and builds Python tools with LLM APIs, AI agents, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations. He assesses AI risk with the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and ISO/IEC 42001, and models AI threats with MITRE ATLAS. He designed and taught AI security labs at CODED and advises the President of the American University of Kuwait on AI use.

Yes. Ghareeb Thiab is open to opportunities and collaboration in information security, IT audit, and cybersecurity instruction. The best way to reach him is by email at ghareebthiab@gmail.com.