Enterprise Security Manager — Asif Mukthar
OpenText Cybersecurity · SIEM · Enterprise UX

Enterprise Security
Manager

Redesigning the UX of a market-leading SIEM platform. Making real-time threat detection and SOC analyst workflows faster, clearer, and more actionable at enterprise scale.

Company
OpenText
Role
UX Designer
Timeline
Feb 2025 to Present
Domain
Cybersecurity / SIEM

The product

OpenText Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) is a powerful, adaptable SIEM platform for enterprise Security Operations Centers. It offers comprehensive data collection and real-time threat analysis, backed by an industry-leading correlation engine that alerts analysts to threat-correlated events as they occur, dramatically reducing time to detect, react to, and triage cybersecurity threats.

ESM integrates native SOAR capabilities, enabling SOC teams to streamline operations, automate repetitive workflows, and respond to threats with speed and precision. With support for more than 450 event sources and the ability to analyse over 100,000 events per second, ESM delivers enterprise-wide event visibility at a scale few platforms match.

Product impact

90%
Reduction in daily alerts needing investigation
100K+
Events analysed per second
450+
Supported event sources

What I worked on

Real-Time Threat Correlation

Industry-leading correlation engine detects and escalates threats as they occur, minimising MTTD and MTTR for SOC analysts.

Native SOAR Integration

Built-in Security Orchestration, Automation and Response with out-of-the-box playbooks, incident management, and SOC analytics.

Threat Intelligence Feed

Integrates open-source threat intelligence data automatically, ensuring security teams are always informed about the latest threats.

Enterprise-Wide Visibility

Aggregates, normalises, and enriches data from across the entire enterprise, providing analysts with a unified view of their security posture.

Customisable Dashboards

Personalised SOC metrics dashboards and on-demand reports support compliance, operational efficiency, and executive visibility.

Flexible Deployment

Supports on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployments, scaling to handle 100,000+ events per second across any infrastructure.

What I did

UX Designer at OpenText

  • Drove the development and integration of AI-powered features into Application Security products, enhancing vulnerability detection.
  • Spearheaded UX design for Connector Management, improving how enterprise security teams configure and manage data sources feeding into the SIEM.
  • Worked on the Enterprise Security Manager interface, significantly improving data integration workflows and customer access patterns for security analysts.
  • Collaborated with product managers and engineering to translate complex security domain requirements into intuitive, scalable interface designs.
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