Dipl.-Ing. Alex Beisser

As the Business Information Security Officer, I am tasked with translating the information security program into practical, actionable initiatives for each business unit. My primary responsibility is to ensure that all security measures are fully aligned with our business objectives. I proactively identify potential security risks relevant to each business area and collaborate on developing effective mitigation strategies. I establish and enforce policies to safeguard our infrastructure, systems and data.

I am providing management consulting services covering healthcare IT, data protection, security, GRC, Quality Management and Medical Device Regulation compliance for affecting health and social care providers, healthcare IT companies and other providers to the healthcare sector in Asia, Middle East and Europe.

My principal role as a Senior Advisory Services Consultant in the Advisory Services was to create and maintain strategic partnerships with our customers, through delivering first-class security consulting services, working closely and strategically with my customers and ensuring that I understand and support their business and core security requirements.

In my role as Head of Security Compliance and Regulation within the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Governance department I focused on ensuring that enterprise security is implemented in a consistent, coherent manner that is compliant with country specific legislation, regulations and good practice across the globe in relation to (cyber)security and privacy. Most of my work was dedicated to support the sales and business development teams across Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific.

I am responsible for GRC within Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific supporting my team in the USA, Berlin and India. I am working closely with IT, Legal and Regulatory Affairs to ensure that Cerner’s solutions improve patient safety and satisfaction while also driving efficiencies and savings within the healthcare setting.

I provided leadership throughout the entire development life cycle of Information Security solutions. This includes assisting with policy and standards management, providing governance support for reference architectures, and providing strategic security guidance to the business through threat modelling and risk analysis. This included responding to requests for information and proposal around information security.

I was responsible for developing and delivering the Information Assurance framework comprising of Data Protection, Confidentiality, IT Governance, Registration Authority (Identity Management), Information Security, Freedom of Information, Information Risk Management as well as Incident Management (for confidentiality incidents) leading a team of 7 data protection professionals.

Second line support technician responsible for resolving all Level 2 & 3 hardware and software problems within the assigned time-frames. I supported users in our head office as well as remote users in health centres. I also developed internal information systems.

Final year project student gaining commercial experience in Lotus Notes and Domino R5 developing a flexible Domino R5 application database that allows the secure and fast distribution of confidential internal business reports for the IBM Opportunity Management Centre as part of my university final year project with the title “Data mining, transformation and distribution in a dynamic reporting environment”.