Security Expert

As a core member of the OpenScape Baseline Security Office (OBSO) team: Maintained and implemented policies and procedures that help to assure best-practice baseline security of the Unify’s product portfolio. Coordinated new security features in Unify's product roadmaps. Vulnerability management: filtered and analyzed vulnerabilities from external and internal sources. Product security incident handling: analyzed reports and generated official statements. Support and writing of customer advisories. Support of all Unify R&D teams in areas of secure SW development/test/sustaining. Product security evaluations, pentests and on-demand automated vulnerability scans mainly using Qualys WAS, Nessus, Netsparker and Burpsuite Pro. Secure development training, annual internal security workshops and bi-weekly meetings with product security experts and vulnerability managers.

Executed and delivered a very large number of Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing (VAPT) projects with great success to some of the Firm's high profile clients located in Greece, Qatar, Lebanon, Latvia, Lithuania, and Cyprus. Conducted numerous digital forensics projects that included data acquisition and analysis. Provided expert advice, guidance, and support cybersecurity. Significant experience in the identification, assessment, mitigation, and management of information security risks and issues across the cybersecurity spectrum.

Zone-H.org is an independent and open-source digital observatory, once considered as the most authoritative voice on cybercrime of the Internet. Documented and analyzed millions of cyber attacks (remote successful intrusions / defacements). Represented Zone-H at InfoSecurity London 2005.