CGSP–CCTV
Certified General Security Professional
04 / BEHIND THE HANDLE
A curious mind.
An independent streak.
I’m Zuhair Halawa—a Computer Science student, builder, and contributor to open-source security information, based in the UAE.
IDENTITY / ZH
Zuhair Halawazuhairhalawa
THE PERSON, NOT THE PERSONABuild useful things.
Build useful things.
Stay questioning.
I like taking ideas past the prototype: finding the awkward edge cases, making the experience clearer, and turning a working demo into something more dependable.
That takes different forms—an offline walkthrough tool, a study platform, smart NFC products, or a small correction that makes a public security advisory more useful.
The dark visual language is a personal creative choice. The work underneath it is straightforward: thoughtful engineering, accurate claims, and respect for the systems I’m authorized to assess.
CREDENTIALS / LEARNING THAT LEAVES A RECORD.
Learning that leaves a record.
Technical training and credentials. No self-issued “expert” badges.
CGSA–CCTV
Certified General Security Associate
CGSA–Access Control
Certified General Security Associate
Completed during internship training at Hikvision’s MENA headquarters. Certificates are valid through June 2031. Certificate identifiers and private PDFs are not published here.
SOME THINGS ARE NOT PUBLIC.Private work.
Private work.
Clear boundaries.
RELAY
EXPERIMENTAL / PRIVATEAn experimental end-to-end encrypted messenger. The project is not independently security-audited. Private implementation details stay private.
ZeroTrace Lab
RESEARCH / PRIVATEResearch-stage computer vision and adversarial-ML work. Confidential challenge data, unpublished results, and private source are not shared here.
A GOOD IDEA DESERVES A CONVERSATION.
Interesting problem? Thoughtful collaboration? Start here.