Catalin Patrascu

Building a Cybersecurity Operations Center it’s an objective for a large number of companies around the world, but it seems that a lot of projects in this area are failing to fulfill initial expectations. We’ll use this session to discuss about some of the most common reasons the SOC projects are unsuccessful (things to avoid) and to present a few tips and tricks aimed to increase the success chances (things to do).

Catalin is an expert in cyber security, with over 10 years of relevant experience in the field, currently activating as Manager, Security Operations and Engineering at Aera Technology. He previously held the position of Security Program Manager at Secureworks (2018-2019) and coordinated the incident response team within the Romanian National Computer Security Incident Response Team - CERT-RO (2012-2018). Throughout his career, he successfully coordinated Incident Response activities at national level and various cyber security projects, he planned and moderated cyber exercises at national and European level and conducted various studies in cybersecurity and cybercrime areas.