Senior Security und Netzwerk Consultant

Summary:

• Over 15 years’ experience in Operations Security, Risk and Vulnerability Assessments, Security Trainings, LAN/WAN planning and design, Network Management, Web development, Team Leadership as well as other management positions.
  • Senior Consultant for highly Critical Infrastructures especially for infrastructure audit (Tier 1-4), planning (firewalls, IDS/IPS, WAN/LAN, DLP, IAM, SIEM, VPN, Client Security and other security related services), project manager/leader for the implementation process.
  • Team leader for private industry security assessment and penetration testing team as well as web development
  • Top Secret Clearance; German Ü3
  • Management positions Chief information officer (CIO) and Chief security officer (CSO)
  • Security evangelist
  • CEO of Think-1st Ltd & Co. KG, a network and security focused consulting company
• Planned, coordinated, and conducted risk assessments of private industry critical assets and developed cost effective security plans (German basic protection, ISO2700x, B3S, Kritis).
• Developed and present a highly acclaimed Hacking Training (Zone-H).
• Process analysis (data centric, business centric) and evaluation of the suitable protection scheme (methods, concepts, technology)
• Preparation and conduction of internal and external audit
• Project management and planning
• Team leader for security and risk assessments (Red Team)
• Lot of experience in large and distributed environments and companies for up to 150000 employees like BASF, EON, Barclays Bank
• Deep level-3 troubleshooting knowledge for Check Point, HP and Cisco products
• Designing and maintaining large check point firewall environments with up to 300 firewalls including Check Point provider-1 and Check Point VSX firewalls
• Designing and maintaining of layer 2-3 switched and managed networks (MPLS) with Cisco switches and routers
• Project leader and engineer for large and long-term migrations projects with specialization of Cisco and HP devices

Special Areas:
Risk Assessments, Vulnerability Assessments, Security Program Design, Security Management, Operations Security, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Management, Emergency Preparedness Exercises, Security Exercises, Industrial Security, INFOSEC Assessment Methodology, Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Zertifizierungen
Amazon AWS Network Engineer
Check Point Professional Services
Cisco Devnet
Could Computing AWS/ Microsoft Azure
Designing Cisco Networks
Cisco Routers and LAN Switches
Advanced Cisco Router configuration – ACRC
Cisco Communication Network
Cisco Voice over Frame Relay, ATM and IP
Building Cisco Remote Access Networks – BCRAN
Building Scalable Cisco Networks – BSCN
Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks – BCMSN
Cisco Internetworking Troubleshooting – CIT
Gustav Käser : Kundenbetreuung-Spezial
Nokia Security Administrator
Building Proactive Networks – HP
Routing Switch Essentials – HP
Siemens AG : Grundlagen vertrieblicher Zusammenarbeit
Ethical Hacking
Projekt Management
VMWare Hacking
ISACA Cobit Practitioner (4.1, 5)
ISACA – CISA Course
IRCA – ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
ISACA Governance Manager

Check Point
Check Point certified security engineer – CCSE (4.1)
Check Point certified security engineer  – CCSE+ (NG)
Check Point certified security engineer  – CCSE+ (NGX)
Check Point Professional Service (Stand 01.07.2020)

Cisco
Cisco Certified Network Associate – CCNA
Cisco Certified Design Associate – CCDA
Cisco Certified Network Professional – CCNP
Cisco Voice specialist – CCNP-VA
Cisco Sales Expert – CSE (Security/Management)
Cisco Management Specialist – CCNP-MGT
Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert – CCIE-Security wr.
Information Systems Security Professional – Infosec
Cisco Trusted Advisor
Cisco Security Virtual Team Member

Microsoft
Microsoft Certified System Engineer – MCSE

HP
Procurve Networking – ASE / AIS

Nokia
Nokia Security Administrator – NSA

ISACA
Certified Information System Auditor – CISA
Certified Information Security Manager – CISM
Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT – CGEIT
IT-Governance Manager

Zone-H
Certified ethical Hacker

IRCA/TÜV
ISO 27001 certified lead Auditor