Roland Costea

Developed an online cybersecurity and privacy (GDPR) school - www.defradar.com

Part of Cognizant Cloud & Security team, leading Security & Cloud Projects from end to end with top Fortune 500 clients in DACH region. Develop Cloud Transformations, Cloud Security Programmes, Cloud Optimization Techniques, Zero Trust Frameworks & multi-cloud strategies for Fortune 500 around Azure & AWS public clouds (all verticals)

Responsible for the Security, Compliance & Privacy Technical Leadership of Central & Eastern Europe (20 countries) through deep technical architecture and security design discussions with senior executives. Leading a team of 5 security professionals and the complete Azure & M365 security portfolio incl. Azure AD Identity Protection, Azure Sentinel, AIP, Azure ATP, WDATP, MCAS, ASC, O365ATP as well as integration with all other Azure services.

Responsible for planning and leading large enterprise audits (ISAE 3402, ISO 27001, PCI, Data Privacy, SOC2 etc), client specific audits (related to information security and especially data privacy), risk analysis and assessments, cloud transformations, Compliance around Public & Private Cloud. Driving and Leading Functional and Business teams across Europe (>20 people)

Responsible for whole IBM Security portfolio with strategic decisions for Qradar, XGS, Guardium and Endpoint/Mobile Management in Central & Eastern Europe region (aprox 15 countries). Acting as a Top security advisor for CxO enterprise clients by driving a new cybersecurity experience and architecture of their existing environment. Lead a team of 3 security architects. Developing IBM Qradar SaaS offerings from private and public cloud.

Part of IBM South & Eastern Europe Software Sales group and responsible for IBM Security sales productivity and deal flow by securing the “technical close”. Duties include deep understand in the Security and Cyber client needs and combines leadership skills and technical skills and requires close work with the management team to define scope and timeline and applicability meeting the business goals of the group

Responsible for presales and architectural activities and also for development of Infrastructure & Cloud segment from security perspective. Developed MSSP model in Star Storage own datacenter from scratch.

Client Connectivity Expert as part of Networking, Security and Voice Global Teams. Responsible for design, implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of different solutions mapped on Accenture infrastructure as an outsourcing company or mapped on customer infrastructure. The proposed solutions were 100 % compliant with company policies

Responsible for training CCNA and CCNP courses within Cisco Academy. Managing trainings activities and preparing courses development in order to achieve students satisfaction during classes. Managing events like retraining and retooling in order to achieve Cisco targets as a Cisco Academy Training Center

IT Security, Complex Networks Security

Computer Science, IT Security