whoami
Cybersecurity professional focused on information security, governance,
compliance, and data protection, with a Master’s degree in cybersecurity and
certifications including CISSP, OSCP, and CDPSE. The work I enjoy most
is the whole loop: finding the weaknesses, then working with the team to fix them.
It’s a purple-team mindset, attacking and defending the same system, and it
depends on staying as close to the teams outside security as to the ones inside
it.
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Skills & Expertise
Strategic Governance & Risk Leadership
- Executive Stakeholder Engagement: the link between technical teams and
senior leadership, translating security risks into business terms for boards,
investors, and partners.
- Cybersecurity Strategy & Vision: building and maintaining the overall
security roadmap, so technology projects line up with the business’s goals and
its legal obligations.
- Regulatory Compliance Oversight: keeping the organization aligned with
international and local standards, including ISO 27001, NIST, PCI-DSS, and PDPL.
- Enterprise Risk Management: identifying and documenting security risks
through Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA), so
decisions rest on real data.
- Data Privacy Governance: leading data protection, setting up the frameworks
and monitoring the day-to-day practices that keep sensitive information safe
across different regional jurisdictions.
Operational & Technical Leadership
- Mentorship & Technical Instruction: teaching and mentoring people getting
into cybersecurity, designing the course material and running hands-on sessions
in network security and data communications.
- Security Program Management: running security programs, from company-wide
vulnerability management to enforcing security hardening guidelines.
- Incident Response & Resilience: overseeing continuous monitoring and leading
incident response to contain threats and keep the business running.
- Infrastructure Transformation: leading large technical projects, including
datacenter migrations and the design of resilient network architectures.
- Advanced Threat Intelligence: using research on zero-day attacks and threat
hunting to build defenses against new and changing threats.
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