Several roles in corporations, such as Electronic Data Systems Senior Information Security Analyst, Chief Information Security Officer Adam Opel AG, Chief Information Security Officer and later Corporate Security Officer Schenker AG. Several functions in the founding, development and management of medium-sized security companies as managing director including controlling and accounting. Studied technical computer science, certified security manager and data protection officer. Research Analyst for Security. Security architect. Development and engineering services. Founder and editor of the security magazine Sectank. Author of scientific books at Springer Scientific and Handelsblatt/Palo Alto and Forbes with a focus on IT security, industrial espionage and digitalization (5 books), private pilot PPL-A Land & Sea, AZF, JAR-FCL Night (EASA), English language skills level 6.
EXPERIENCE SINCE 1991
Professional/technical focus and IT skills
- Information Security
- Data Protection
- IT Risk Management
- ISMS DIN ISO and BSI
- Security Architectures
- Development and construction of Security Operations Centers for OT and IT with AI based on elastic search and incident management
- Identity Management, Role and Authorization Concepts, IAM, PAM, SoD for all common platforms
- Pentesting
- Information Security Policies
- Cross-platform IT security knowledge for clouds, servers, networks, databases, applications and mainframes
- Operational IT including contract management, ITIL, change management, software distribution
- Data center construction, relocation and operation
- Physical security
- DIN ISO 27001, 27002, IT-GS, ISO/IEC 18028, ISO/IEC 27005, ISO/IEC 15816
- Banking norms and standards such as Dora, Tiber, KWG, MaRisk, Bait, Vait, Kait, Zait, DSGVO
- Physical security (CT-PAT, TAPA, air freight, sea freight)
- Safety and Security for Automotive and Rail 62443, 50121, 50125, 50126,50128, 50129, 60050, 60721, 60950, 62637, 82079, CENELEC, ISO 21434, MITER CWE, TISAX
- OSSTMM, OWASP, NIST, PTES, ISSAF