“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and few minutes of cyberincident to ruin it.” ― Stephane Nappo
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
3
3
Languages
Work History
Chief Security Officer
Erste Bank Hungary Zrt.
Budapest, Budapest
02.2024 - Current
Leading four sub-divisions: Cyber Security, Security GRC, Physical Security, Business Continuity and Crisis management
Reporting directly to the Board as a B-1
Developing and executing Information security strategy
Cooperating with group level security community and adopting practices and technologies from group to local, establish center of excellence in various security topics to support group security functions
Supervising the local subsidiaries or small entities
Improved overall company security by developing and implementing comprehensive security policies and procedures.
Director of SOC, EMEA
BlueVoyant
02.2022 - 02.2024
Cooperate with BV SOCs around the world
Designed and build the SOC team for EMEA
Plan and build up the security operation environment
Adopt and optimize the processes
Coordinate the teams daily tasks
Maintain the mentoring program for the team members
Internal security responsibilities like local CISO, or design and establish the physical security
Client facing communications and discussions
Communicate and represent the SOC functionality inside the BV organization, cooperate with other business units like product team, sales and sales engineering
Business related strategy planning
Head of SOC, Deputy CISO
Magyar Nemzeti Bank (The Central Bank of Hungary)
06.2016 - 02.2022
Build up the security operation team from scratch
Design and implement the processes
Coordinate and control the daily tasks of the team
Mentoring
Report directly to the CISO and the to the management
Work closely with all IT divisions
Plan the budgeting
Participant in the procurement processes
Cooperate with 3rd party organizations (with ECB and with other Central Banks)
Deputy CISO responsibilities
Plan the information security strategy
Lead Information Security Expert
Magyar Nemzeti Bank (The Central Bank of Hungary)
12.2013 - 06.2016
Design and implement the technical information security control environment like SIEM, DLP, IDM, IDS/IPS systems, Sandboxing solutions, Endpoint protection, etc..
Maintain the administrative controls like polices and procedures
Budgeting the information security strategy
Maintain the mentoring programme for the team members
Lead responsible for running the information security awareness program, train the employees of the organization
CISO
Porsche Hungaria LTD / Porsche IT Division of Hungary
08.2013 - 12.2013
Work with CISO's in a multinational environment
Follow and implement the Porsche group control environment
Conduct internal IT security audits
Supervise the Porsche Bank IT infrastructure provided by the Porsche IT Division in regulatory compliance perspective.
Information Security Administrator
Central Clearing House And Depository Ltd.
08.2008 - 08.2013
Maintain and manage IT security infrastructure and IT security services
Coordinate Information security and physical security projects