Company
Roland Costea
Basic
Angestellt, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), SAP
Bensheim, Germany
Timeline
Professional experience for Roland Costea
Current 1 year and 7 months, since Dec 2020
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
SAP
Current 6 years, since Jul 2016
Security & Privacy Director, Founder
Defradar Technologies
Developed an online cybersecurity and privacy (GDPR) school - www.defradar.com
1 year and 4 months, Aug 2019 - Nov 2020
Security & Cloud Director DACH
Cognizant Technology Solutions GmbH
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)
2 years and 10 months, Mar 2017 - Dec 2019
Chief Security Architect Central & Eastern Europe
Microsoft Corp.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.
9 months, Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
Senior Manager Information Security & Compliance
Genpact
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)
11 months, Sep 2015 - Jul 2016
IBM Security Technical Leader South & Eastern Europe
IBM
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.
1 year and 7 months, Feb 2014 - Aug 2015
Senior Security Architect SEE
IBM
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
3 years and 10 months, May 2010 - Feb 2014
Security Technical Leader
Star Storage
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
2 years and 1 month, Oct 2006 - Oct 2008
Cisco Trainer
Cisco Systems, Inc.
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
Educational background for Roland Costea
1 year and 5 months, Oct 2009 - Feb 2011
Applied IT-Security
University of Polytechnics Bucharest
IT Security, Complex Networks Security
3 years and 10 months, Oct 2005 - Jul 2009
Computer Science
University of Polytechnics Bucharest
Computer Science, IT Security
Languages
English
Fluent
Romanian
First language
French
Basic
German
Basic
Italian
Basic