Krisztian Kovacs

Cybersecurity Consultant, Teacher & Personal Trainer

Experiences

Present2024

Cyber Security Consultant | CEO

Solstice Security LLC Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Providing various cyber security consulting services and vulnerability management.
  • Supporting clients in their Zero-trust journey, with the most recent advanced threats in mind.
  • Analyzing vulnerabilities, creating and supporting remediation projects in a multi-cloud environment(Managing and administering Rapid7, Microsoft Defender, AWS Inspector and Security Hub, Azure Sentinel and ServiceNow mainly).
  • Creating and presenting reports to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
20242022

Cyber Security Execution Engineer

Siemens-Energy Lisboa, Portugal
  • Managing and executing small projects: Technical support for sales, solution architecting and procurement, communicating with stakeholders and customers, SAT/FAT and implementation/execution.
  • Researching Threat and Vulnerability Management solutions for ICS
  • Designing, implementing and operating Security Operations and Monitoring solutions
  • Providing technical support, incident response/disaster recovery planning and digital forensics
20222022

Vulnerability Analyst

United Consult Budapest, Hungary
  • Reviewed and defined requirements for information security solutions
  • Made sure that all parties in the projects complied with the security standards before go-live
  • Developed risk-based mitigation strategies for networks, operating systems and applications
20222021

Cyber Security Specialist

British Telekom Budapest, Hungary
  • Being responsible for change and incident management, customer enquiries, fault diagnosis/resolution
  • Troubleshooting customer problems within the security domain
  • Liasing with customer representatives or vendors and support/direct other support staff where appropriate
  • Brake- fix troubleshooting and support for firewall solutions
  • Configuration, maintenance and support additional firewall services
20212021

Ethical Hacker/Penetration Tester

Alverad Technology Focus Kft. Budapest, Hungary
  • Conducting web application and IoT vulnerability assessments and penetration testing, writing reports
  • Negotiation and communication with foreign clients.
20212019

Teacher

Budapest School Budapest, Hungary
  • Delivered project based education as a head teacher for a mixed age group, primary school class
  • Created learning groups focused on problem solving, critical thinking and empathic connection
  • Projects included: learning programming, forest school, english as second language and developing healthy habbits through sports and concsiousness

List of Skills

Present2019

IT

Programming/Hacking
  • Ethical Hacking/Cyber Security 5 years, proficent.
  • Penetration testing 3 years, intermediate.
      • Red Team tools
  • Nessus, intermediate
  • Burpsuit, proficient
  • Nmap, proficient
  • Fuzzing/bruteforcing tools (dirb, dirbuster, gobuster, fuff, hydra, sqlmap) proficient
  • Various Active Directory/Windows targeting tools (Blood Hound, mimikatz, phishing campaigns), proficient
      • Blue Team tools
  • Splunk, intermediate
  • ELK stack, intermediate
  • Firewalls(Palo Alto), proficient
  • YARA, SNORT rules, proficient
  • Volatility, Zimmerman tools, proficient
  • MISP, Osquery, proficient
      • Developement
  • C, proficient
  • Python, proficient
  • Full Stack(HTML,CSS,JS), proficient
  • Solidity developement and security, proficient
  • Solana-rust-typescript delevopement and security, proficient
20192014

Education

Budapest, Hungary/Aberdeen, Scotland(Teacher)
  • Non-Violent Communication 6 years, proficient
  • Critical thinking 3 years, proficient
  • English, PE 8 years expert
  • Psychology, Biology 5 years, proficient
20192014

Personal trainer

Martial Arts/Biomechanics
  • Brazillian Jiu Jitsu/Submission grappling 7+ years, proficient :)
  • Boxing/thai boxing 5 years, proficient
  • Running 5 years, proficient
  • Fitness 10+ years, expert

Education

Present2019

IT/Hacking

SANS, TryHackMe, HackTheBox, Cyber Defenders, HackerRank, Udemy Online
Cyber security, programming
20192014

Behavioural Sciences/Education

Alison, Schools in: Aberdeen, London, Budapest Online, UK, Hungary
Diploma in Psychology, Early Years Studies, Nutrition, Social Work
>=2014

High school and sports instructor

Budapest/Komarom Hungary
High School Diploma, Massage Therapist and Martial Arts Trainer certificate.