With a 15-year professional experience in Digital Security, I have obtained a strong security technical background. Due to my enthusiasm for Security and Cloud technologies, I have acquired many certifications in the aforementioned fields, participated as speaker in many conferences and have authored numerous publications, including an RFC.
In 2018, I won the Business Excellence Award for the Audit-Runner: a Nokia DevSecOps tool, working as a Security Principal Architect at Nokia.
Currently, I am the Cyber Protection Lead in Greece, responsible for Application Security, Cloud Security, Data & AI Security, Identity & Access Management.
My key responsibilities:
Lead the Cyber Protection Pillar
Manage and lead overall pillar with a focus on:
• Growing the Accenture Security Portfolio and expanding in the Greek market.
• Leading RFP responses, preparing effort and cost estimations, handling financials, preparing contracts and invoicing.
• Interfacing with the related stakeholders in Client and Accenture and coordinating necessary activities.
•. SME for technical questions or decisions which may affect the efficient performance of the project or potential risks.
• Lead project delivery and present to executive board or stakeholders.
• Lead and grow people and teams, provide guidance and mentoring.
• Understanding Client’s needs and bringing value via tailored security solutions.
Previous responsibilities:
Telecommunications/Banking Industry | Cloud Security Principal Architect:
• Azure Security Architecture
• Design and prototype security solutions such as Identity and Access Management, Encryption, Firewall, IPsec, Certificate Management, Secret Management and Infrastructure Security for Cloud Native Telecom products (containerized environments, kubernetes, docker, openstack etc).
Technology / Software | Security Lead:
• Design, prototype and implement hardening auditing mechanisms and products (Network Security, Database Hardening. OS Hardening etc) using DevSecOps principles (microservices, CI/CD, SAFe). Skills and technologies: Python, Shell scripting, YAML, ansible, jenkins, gitlab CI/CD etc.
• Project management of security domain (JIRA, PowerBI, Agile, SAFe etc)
• Design & implement security processes and techniques (S-SDLC, Security Automation Testing, DoD criteria, security KPIs etc)
• Leading security assessments (Treat & risk analyisis, mitigation techniques etc).
• Responsible for security trainings & to raise security awareness.
• Verifying compliance for 3GPP and ANSSI criteria, TL900 & ISO27001 audits.