Torsten Gesang

Extended my responsibilities as CISO for the Xantaro Group. Xantaro supports carriers and service providers, Cloud providers and data center operators in the development and operation of their high-performance infrastructures and services by – ­transforming multi-vendor technologies into bespoke solutions – delivering best-in class expertise and comprehensive services through the complete lifecycle – developing software solutions to optimize network management and operations Xantaro Deutschland GmbH | www.xantaro.net

NetDescribe GmbH, headquartered in Oberhaching, south of Munich, stands for fail-safe business processes and cloud applications with the claim Trusted Performance. The strength of NetDescribe are tailor-made technology stacks instead of standard off-the-shelf conversions. The holistic portfolio offers data analysis, solution concepts, development, implementation and support. As a trusted advisor to corporations and public institutions, NetDescribe delivers highly scalable solutions with state-of-the-art technologies for real-time dynamic and transparent monitoring. This provides customers with insights into security, cloud, IoT and industry 4.0 at all times. They can make agile decisions, secure internal and external compliance and conduct efficient risk management. Trusted Performance by NetDescribe.

Additionally to my role as VP IT Security, I recently took over responsibility for the Kubernetes Platform Team.

adding further responsibility from previous role by * Security Architecture Consulting * Offensive Security Services by extending team to 8 FTE

Design and build a Security Operations Center from ground-up * Process design and Incident Handling based on ISO 27035 * Implementing a SIEM solution with complete infrastructure coverage within 7 months * Introducing Vulnerabilty Managment Manager of 5 FTEs, combining agile and classic methods in leadership Advisor for C-Level

* consulting and implementing IT security measures to the cable (internet/phone) infrastructure * technical advisor in data protection * representative for CTO in C-Level Security Board * designing and implementing security policies

Security Consultant in various projects with international and national customers from the banking, government and tech-sector

responsible for two teams with 13 FTE, covering * Firewall, Intrusion Detection and and Antivirus Infrastructure * Security Policies * hosting of top 5 german websites like prosieben.de (full stack)