BAIT Experts in Berlin

• Enhance and develop the Information Security Management System (ISMS) in compliance with ISO 27001 and TISAX standards by continuously updating and refining the ISMS to align with evolving global standards.
• Ensure that security practices and policies are integrated into all business processes to achieve and maintain certifications.
• Lead the effort to identify, evaluate and mitigate risks across the organization, setting benchmarks for security measures.
• Oversee and refine security processes, with an emphasis on incident management and rapid response by developing and enforcing policies for rapid detection, investigation and remediation of security incidents.
• Train and lead the incident response team to handle breaches effectively, minimizing impact and ensuring swift recovery.
• Implement continuous monitoring solutions to detect and respond to threats in real time.
• Conduct comprehensive security assessments for internal and external IT projects, ensuring adherence to GDPR, DORA and other relevant standards.
• Oversee security evaluations for all IT projects to ensure they comply with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Integrate security measures from the planning phase through deployment to ensure all projects uphold the organization’s security standards.
• Collaborate with project teams to address findings and ensure that security risks are managed effectively.
• Serve as the principal security advisor to the IT department and senior management, offering insights on potential security challenges.
• Facilitate a culture of security awareness throughout the organization through training and regular communication.
• Lead security initiatives that align with the organization’s long-term strategic goals.
• Establish and oversee a robust third-party risk management framework to mitigate external security threats by regularly assessing third-party security practices and compliance and developing contingency plans and mitigation strategies.
• Provide regular updates and security briefings to the executive leadership and relevant committees, highlighting recent security incidents, responses, lessons learned and recommending strategic improvements.

• Responsibility for IT infrastructure across 8 sites, 2,500 users, 80 systems, 8,000 assets
• Responsibility for IT/non-IT procurement with €18M annual budget
• Central service provider management, digitalization of contracts and procurement
• Project management for scanning solution, site integration, MS SharePoint
• Leadership of 18 FTE across 3 teams
• Agile leadership in implementation of Digital Office and Digital Coach

• Development of a cloud security strategy
• Implementation of cloud security governance to comply with ISO/IEC 27017 and the CSA CCM
• Creation of a management system to control cloud security with a focus on process design as well as roles and responsibilities
• Definition of security measures to safeguard cloud solutions
• Conducting requirements analyses and defining the scope for cloud security projects
• Achievements: Established an effective NIS2-compliant cloud security governance that meets industry-specific requirements and effectively minimizes cloud security risks

Industry: Publishing, media Project management for the design of a RAG-based archive indexing solution: sovereign on-prem or hybrid compute architecture for LLM and embedding operations, pipeline for transcription and automatic tagging, semantic search across audio/video holdings. Use-case assessment and make-or-buy together with editorial, archive and legal departments, taking copyright law, the Interstate Broadcasting Treaty and the AI Act into account. Differentiator: practical LLM infrastructure experience from two of my own productive platforms combined with C-level program management in regulated industries.