Sven Thomsen


2005 – today: Head Of Technical Department

  • Consulting and auditing of processing of sensitive or privacy-related
    data in german federal state “Schleswig-Holstein”
  • Project lead for several audits in complex, heterogenuos IT-systems
    with focus on Wide-Area-Networks, critical infrastructure on federal level
  • Technical lead for privacy-related issues in a EU-funded project on
    security and scalability of cloud computing
  • Licensed auditor (0183-2008) for ISO-27001-audits based on
    IT-Grundschutz (german security standard published by BSI,
    https://www.bsi.bund.de)

2003 – 2005: Project Manager

  • Project lead in a server consolidation project: design guidance for
    consolidation and security hardening of Microsoft Windows and Unix-based
    servers
  • Technical project lead in a prototype project for implementing a
    document management system
  • Project lead for storage consolidation project
  • Member of IT-Security workgroup

2000 – 2003: Security Consultant

    Projects for several clients in northern Germany:
  • Hardening and penetration tests of Unix systems
  • Design, implementation and maintenance of firewall systems
  • Design and implementation of secure directory services
Domain: Security / Data Privacy
Topic: Clouds: How to audit, how to certify?