Laszlo Meszaros
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English Full professional proficiency
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Credentials
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Privilege Access Management - Defender
CyberArkOct, 2023- Sep, 2024 -
Endpoint Privilege Manager - Defender
CyberArkJul, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
MobileIron Access Certification
IvantiJun, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
MobileIron Cloud Advanced: Architecture Certification
IvantiJun, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
MobileIron Cloud Advanced: Authentication Certification
IvantiJun, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
MobileIron Cloud Advanced: Tunneling Certification
IvantiJun, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
MobileIron Cloud Fundamentals: App Management Certification
IvantiJun, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
MobileIron Cloud Fundamentals: Policies and Configurations Certification
IvantiJun, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
MobileIron Cloud Fundamentals: Sentry and Connector Certification
IvantiJun, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
MobileIron Cloud Fundamentals: Solution Overview and Initial Configuration Certification
IvantiJun, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
MobileIron Cloud Fundamentals: User and Device Management Certifiction
IvantiJun, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
MobileIron Mobile Threat Defense Certification
IvantiJun, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Thales Technical Pre-Sales Professional
ThalesJan, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
7Signal Certified Wireless Engineer
7SIGNALJul, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
Responsive Web Design Developer Certification
freeCodeCampMar, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
IAB Digital Marketing and Media Foundations Certification
GoogleJan, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
International ESOL - Communicator
LanguageCert (PeopleCert Qualifications Ltd)Sep, 2019- Sep, 2024 -
Driving License
Hungarian GovernmentDec, 2011- Sep, 2024 -
Zero Trust Certified Architect
ZscalerDec, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Zscaler Certified Administrator (2022) - Internet Access
ZscalerNov, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Zscaler Certified Administrator (2022) - Private Access
ZscalerNov, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Zscaler Certified Administrator - Digital Experience Management
ZscalerOct, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Zscaler Certified Sales Engineer
ZscalerOct, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Proofpoint Certified Channel Sales Engineer
ProofpointJul, 2023- Sep, 2024 -
Proofpoint Certified Threat Protection Server Level 2
ProofpointJan, 2023- Sep, 2024 -
Certified Incydr Administrator
Code42Dec, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Certified Incydr Practitioner
Code42Dec, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Cyber Hygiene Pro
CymulateDec, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Continuous Security Validation Pro
CymulateNov, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Android Mobile Certified
GoogleOct, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
Radware Certified Application Delivery Specialist - Alteon
RadwareAug, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Radware Certified Application Security Specialist - AppWall
RadwareJul, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Radware Certified Security Specialist - DefensePro
RadwareAug, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Radware LinkProof NG Certification
RadwareAug, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
SAS-PCE Advanced Certified Engineer
ThalesMar, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
QRadar XDR - Security Information and Event Management Technical Sales Intermediate
IBMFeb, 2023- Sep, 2024 -
QRadar XDR Sales Foundation
IBMFeb, 2023- Sep, 2024 -
DUO ONE Administrator
Duo SecurityDec, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
Device Trust Certification
Duo SecurityDec, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
Help Desk Administrator
Duo SecurityDec, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
Oracle Certified Fundations Associate - Cloud Data Management
OracleJun, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Proofpoint CyberSecurity Leadership Certification - DLP Specialist
ProofpointOct, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Certified LinkedIn Marketing Fundamentals
LinkedInOct, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
Certified Linkedin Marketing Strategist
LinkedInOct, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
Proofpoint Accredited Essentials Administrator
ProofpointSep, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2021 Certified Architect Professional
OracleFeb, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
ProofPoint Accredited Channel Sales Engineer
ProofpointAug, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2021 Certified Architect Associate
OracleJan, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations 2021 Certified Associate
OracleDec, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
Fortinet Network Security Engineer Level 1: Certified Associate
FortinetApr, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
Fortinet Network Security Engineer Level 2: Certified Associate
FortinetApr, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
Certified Trustee
CyberArkApr, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
TalkDesk Certified Admin
TalkdeskAug, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
TalkDesk Certified Advanced Admin
TalkdeskAug, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
TalkDesk Certified Agent
TalkdeskAug, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
TalkDesk Certified Supervisor
TalkdeskAug, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
Mist Location Certification
Mist SystemsFeb, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
Mist Wireless Certification
Mist SystemsJan, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
Google Ad Search Certification
GoogleFeb, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
OPSWAT Certified Critical Infrastructure Protection Associate
OPSWATJan, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
OPSWAT Certified Cybersecurity Associate
OPSWATJan, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
OPSWAT Certified MetaAccess Assocate
OPSWATJan, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
OPSWAT Certified MetaDefender Associate
OPSWATJan, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
OPSWAT Certified Secure Data Workflow Associate
OPSWATJan, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
Silver-Peak SDWAN Professional (SPSP)
Silver PeakDec, 2017- Sep, 2024 -
Silver-Peak SDWAN eXpert (SPSX)
Silver PeakDec, 2017- Sep, 2024 -
ESOL - E3
Cambridge University Press & Assessment EnglishJun, 2014- Sep, 2024 -
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - Windows Vista Configuring
MicrosoftDec, 2008- Sep, 2024 -
CheckPoint Certified Security Engineer - NGX R75
Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd.Oct, 2013- Sep, 2024 -
Checkpoint Certified Security Administrator - NGX R75
Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd.Jul, 2013- Sep, 2024 -
Cisco Certified Network Professional
CiscoAug, 2011- Sep, 2024 -
Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate - Firewall and VPN
Juniper NetworksJun, 2012- Sep, 2024 -
Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching (CCNA)
CiscoMay, 2008- Sep, 2024 -
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Experience
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Socurity
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United Kingdom
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Computer and Network Security
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Cyber Defense Engineer, Security Architect
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Dec 2021 - Present
Career History and Achievements: - Posted on the company’s blog page about the importance of Privileged Access Security in Cybersecurity and Compliance which resulted in the highest views on the business social media site of company. - Published 11 technical articles on the internal knowledge base to guide the co-workers on the installation and setup of security tools. - Advocated 134 security improvements for a customer to fortify its resiliency against the possible cyber attacks. - Ramped up a lab environment to educate 2 co-workers about an Identity Management and DNS filtering solutions. - Enticed a new cloud security vendor to expand the portfolio of company. - Managed to cross-sell application security product and up-sell its license extensions and renewals with 85K USD value. Roles and Responsibilities: - Created quotes and estimates to support the Pre-Sales activities. - Inventoried the applications and automated security reports for the purpose of security auditing. - Executed trials/Proof of Concepts to present the benefits of security solutions. - Project engineered, coordinated and documented the rollout of new cybersecurity tools for the customers. - Policed internal application usage and automated the removal of unwanted programs. - Interviewed applicants for Junior Security Analyst position. - Authored RFIs translated from English to Hungarian on behalf of the vendor and distributor. - Audited Hybrid Data Center Infrastructures. Acquired Competencies: - Cisco Umbrella - Thales SAS-PCE - MobileIron Cloud - Radware Alteon - Proofpoint Essentials - BitWarden - TrezorIt - Crowdstrike Falcon - CyberArk EPM - Qualys Cloud Platform - Cisco ASA/FTD - PAN OS - Atlassian Jira and Confluence - Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 Servers and ThinkSystem DE4000H Storages - VmWare ESXi and vCenter Virtualisation Show less
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Nevis Security
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Switzerland
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Customer Success Engineer - Technical Support, Application Protection
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Mar 2020 - Nov 2021
Career History and Achievements: - Accomplished network divestiture upon spin off and ramped up a WiFi-only green field office deployment of swiss start-up. - Polished KPIs, SLAs and processes to align with the CX goals along with the evaluation and customisation of selected service product suites prior to the transition, budgeting and rollout. - Onboarded 2 new coworkers whom succeded in passing their trial periods. Roles and Responsibilities: - Conducted RF Survey, configuration, testing and implementation of Wired and Wireless network. - Performed technical and business analysis, managed queues and elevations, deployed cloud toolsets. - Been the Single Point of Contact for enhancing the support and documentation of reverse proxy product of company. - Led the migration of ticketing tool used by the Customer Success team. Acquired Competencies: - Ubiquity Unify Enterprise Wireless (UAC-PRO, Cloud Key, USW and USG PRO-4) - G Suite and Slack - SendSafely + Zendesk (Chat, Talk, Support, Explore, Guide, Gather) - HP LaserJet Show less
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International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - IFRC
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Switzerland
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Non-profit Organizations
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700 & Above Employee
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Information Technology Officer, Network Expert ( Senior Infrastructure Specialist @ Swicon)
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Dec 2018 - Sep 2019
Career History and Achievements: - Economized 73200 CHF annual recurring cost on the managed SD-SWAN service by hygienizing the security policies on the network perimeter. - Evaluated, modelled and rolled out the enforcement of security protocol upgrade for 2100 computers. - Modernized the front-end protection of 32 web services with a revamped cyber-defense solution. - Explored 10 branch offices and 3 data centers to localize the 231 telecom assets, determine their state of health and organized them in the CMDB of renovated IT Service Management Tool in a month. - Harvested, parsed and sorted 160 graphs, 60000 CDR entries and 136 000 call traces to visualize the potential of transitioning from IP Telephony solution to Unified Collaboration Suite in the regional offices along with recommendations of chosen vendor. Roles and Responsibilities: - Consolidated Cybersecurity perimeter policies. - Facilitated the rollout of web security protocol update enforcement to comply with the operational practices of cloud provider. - Upgraded the way of securely publishing the web applications. - Constituted the CI design for the Network nodes under the CMDB migration to the new IT Service Management tool. - Attended on the FastTrack program to swap the obsolete IPT solution with an integrated collaboration suite. Acquired Competencies: - Microsoft Office 365, Azure and PowerBI, DNS, SfB/Teams, Intune and RAM/WAP. - OpenSystem Mission Control and Cisco ASA/AnyConnect. - Cisco 2500/5500 Series WLCs with AiroNet and 2800 series APs. - Cisco ISE and Prime. - DigiCert PKI & EuroDNS. - Marwel and Sharepoint. - MAC OS X and iPhone Show less
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Consultant, Senior Network Designer
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Oct 2014 - Apr 2017
Career History and Archievements: - Elaborated the high level design with proof of concepts and built on material lists for the RFP of a global insurance company which resulted in winning the bid for 5+2 years contract with the estimated value of 300 million USD. - Architected the low level migration designs of customer or competitor managed network and security services by which the field technicians, deployment engineers and project coordinators managed to take over the remote administration and smoothly divert the business traffic from the old lines to the new ones of 130 sites of a global industrial customer. - Supported 2 multinational manufacturer customers to decrease their Wide Area Network bandwidth demands and enhance the experience of their users by the adaptation of optimalization technologies into their In-Life long-distance managed connectivity services that led the investment to returning in 6 months and generating the 50% of cost reduction in addition to increasing the customer satisfaction rate to 99% against the provided solutions in longer term. Roles and Responsibilities: - Responded to RFPs. - Tailored LAN Proof of Concepts. - Bridged the consumer to the business from the technical solution perspective. - Assisted in pricing with BOMs. - Contributed to WAN standardization, simplification and optimalization. - Elaborated High-Level and Low-Level Design docs. - Coordinated Branch-Campus take-overs and cut-overs from technical perspective. - Mentored co-workers. - Divided major task to minor ones and distributed them amongst the team members. - Researched and developed networking solutions. - Reviewed the jobs of peers for quality assurance purpose. - Analysed the root causes of change failures. - Coached the deployment engineers and project managers. Acquired Competencies: - Network Design Studio and Network Design eXpert. - Riverbed SteelHead appliances and Mobile endpoint, Interceptor, CMC and SMC Management Stations. Show less
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ISS Remote Build Engineer (Network Security III)
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Apr 2013 - Sep 2014
Career History and Achievements: - Established 4 branch office and 3 third-party location networks and connected them to the redundant Data Centres through IPSEC and MPLS VPNs. - Refreshed and expanded 7 headquarters, moreover isolated 6 purpose specific segments from the standard local infrastructures. - Accomplished other 80 smaller network and security projects across different units to meet with the demands of businesses by the direction of procurement, provisioning, deployment, handover or disposal of circuits, equipments, field and remote services. Roles and Responsibilities: - Designed and deployed Network and Security Solutions. - Built MPLS and iVPN based network connectivities. - Managed Firewalls, Routers and Switches. - Designed, maintained and built Branch Office Networks and 3rd Party Networks. - Fullfilled Tech-Refreshments. - Reported to the management staff. - Contributed to the HOTS procedures. - Built overlay and united infrastructures for TelePresence and Unified Communication Systems. - Dispatched site demolishments. - Built firewall isolated networks in networks. - Managed HW/SW/Circuit procurements, activations, tests, removals and withdrawals. Acquired Competencies: - Cisco Multilayer Switches and High-End routers. - CheckPoint IP Gateways and Provider-1 CMA. - HP Project and Portfolio Management and Service-Now service management tools. Show less
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Keler Plc.
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United States
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Law Practice
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1 - 100 Employee
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Network and Security Administrator
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Dec 2011 - Mar 2013
Career History and Achievements: - Orchestrated the settings of network nodes and security appliances to exceed the 99% yearly average availability of electronic services. - Enabled the regional stock markets, banks and private clients to securely complete their financial transactions via the virtualized middleware systems deployed in the Demilitarized Zone of servers of Central Cleaning House and Depository company. - Adumbrated and executed the annual Business Continuity Process and Disaster Recovery Plan test of computer infrastructure by the redirection of all production network traffic to the backup Data Centre and the reversion to the main one later on. Roles and Responsibilities: - Monitored, maintained and configured Network Nodes and Security Appliances. - Troubleshot and documented complex telecommunication issues. - Established Leased Lines and VPN connections. - Planned, designed and deployed Network and Security solutions based on the project demands. - Inducted centralized AAA servers, QOS and Dynamic Routing Protocols. - Adjusted designs and deployments based on compliance requirements. - Elaborated and conducted BCP/DRP tests. - Advocated developments. - Reported to management members. Acquired Competencies: - Cisco Catalyst L2 and L3 switches and Cisco ISR G2 routers. - CiscoWorks LMS and Cacti Network Management/Monitoring Systems. - Juniper SSG UTMs. - Nokia IPSO Gateways with Checkpoint Security Management Servers. - Symantec BrightMail spam filter cluster and FortiWeb WAF. - Websense Secure Gateways with Triton Management Servers. - ManageEngine SD Ticketing Tool. Show less
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Getronics
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Netherlands
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Security Specialist (Network Analyst II)
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Aug 2010 - Sep 2011
Career History and Achievements: - Kept the software up to date and signature base fine tuned on the 2 Intrusion Detection Sensors located in the geographically dispersed Data Centres and evaluated up to 50 of their triggered security alerts in average per week. - Guided the System Administrators and Security Officers through the way of assessing the vulnerabilities, documenting the findings and proposing remediation by an 800 pages work instruction so that the corporate could pass on the ISO audit. Roles and Responsibilitities: - Planned and executed the Vulnerability Assessments. - Analysed the IPS alerts. - Configured and troubleshot IPS Sensors. - Reported to the Security Management. - Participated in Security workflow creation and documentation. - Transferred my skills and roles as part of the transition. Acquired Competencies: - Cisco 4200 IPS. - Cisco IDM and IME software. - Nessus Vulnerability Scanner. - Yersinia, Zenmap, Wikto, MetaSploit, HP BurpProxy, SQLmap software. - S-Cube ticketing Tool. Show less
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Contrag @ Citi
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United States
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IP Telephony Engineer
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Jul 2008 - Aug 2010
Career History and Achievements: - Completed more than 500 telephony and voice mail related Move, Add, Change and Cease requests as well as fixed more than 60 circuit, Private Branch Exchange and telephony endpoint related troubles in average per month. - Planned and implemented an Automatic Call Distribution flow in a contact center receiving thousands of calls by hundreds of agents on each day. Roles and Responsibilitites: - Configured and troubleshot telephony equipment and applications. - Performed hardware maintenace checks on the supported core servers. - Reported to the tech leads. - Planned and implemented PBX and CMS based Center Call-flows. Acquired Competencies: - Avaya 4600 IP Phones, IP SoftPhone and IP Agent endpoints. - Avaya S8300, S8500, S8700 Media Servers. - Avaya G350, G700, G650 Media Gateways. - Avaya Site Administator and CMS Supervisor Software. - Marketplace Service Ordering Tool. Show less
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Customer Support Engineer (Network Analyst I)
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Dec 2007 - Jun 2008
Career History and Achievements: - Dealt with 10 TAC cases in average per day to resolve the hardware related problems of worldwide customers and get their defected devices replaced. Roles and Responsibilities: - Provided the customers with basic troubleshooting regarding their hardware problems via phone and e-mail. - Created orders for the customers via web if such problem was realized as that could be solved by part replacement only. Acquired Compentencies: - Cisco IOS Management, Catalyst switches and ISR routers. - S3 Ticketing Tool. Show less
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Education
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2019 - 2021
SMC University
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance -
2015 - 2016
The Open University Business School
Professional Certificate in Management, Business Administration and Management, General -
2000 - 2006
Pataky Istvan High School
Associate of Science - AS, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications
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