As part of the Security and Protection module, students of the Systems Engineering programme were visited at a guest lecture by Mr Robert Umer, director of SecureON d.o.o., which provides information security services, comprehensive data protection and support for achieving compliance with standards and regulations for its clients.
The central topic of the guest lecture was "The Role of an Information Security Engineer in a Financial Company". Mr Umer began the lecture with a brief personal introduction and a description of the company SecureON. The company offers Information Security as a service (from on-site consulting, security operations centre (SOC), system monitoring, risk and vulnerability assessment, security key performance indicators to awareness training, and encryption and key management), business continuity and information/cyber security.
Security consultants at the company have a high level of knowledge and experience acquired through many years of professional work and continuous training in the field of information security, risk management, infrastructure implementation, system integration and provision of internet services, most of them are equipped with technical information security certificates, which makes SecureON the most qualified company for carrying out technical security assessments in Slovenia.
In the continuation, the guest lecturer also focused on important areas of information security, such as secure network planning, implementation projects, security auditing, ongoing maintenance, continuous improvement processes, and in the final quarter of the lecture he presented to students the most demanding and extensive incidents the company has encountered, and formed a round table with students on optimal resolution of these incidents.
Source: Academia (25. 4. 2023). Fotografije: arhiv Academie.
This English summary was produced automatically from the Slovenian report and is pending editorial review. Slovenska različica
