Artis Schlossberg

Current

Consultant at infosec.lv

Past

Senior Systems Administrator at ProIT Ltd.
Systems Engineer at datatechlabs.com

Education

Latvijas Universitate
Marian College Dublin

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Industry

Computer & Network Security

Websites

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Artis Schlossberg’s Summary

Artis is a 23 year-old network security specialist and systems engineer. Having worked for 5+ years in the telecommunications and e-commerce industries, Artis has developed a sound understanding of various UNIX environments and since 2008 has applied these skills to provide consulting services. Please refer to the "Specialities" section below for a more detailed professional profile.

He describes himself as "Ambitious but adaptable: comfortable working as an individual or as part of a team. I've always been a quick and self-reliant learner with good research abilities."

Please feel free to contact Mr. Schlossberg in person:

Mobile: (+356) 799 426 96
Email: artis@infosec.lv
GTalk/MSN: artis@proit.lv

Keywords: OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Solaris, OpenSolaris, Linux, RedHat, Debian; TrustedBSD and SELinux extensions. Solaris Zones, FreeBSD jails, Xen; Privilege separation, chroot'ing daemons, exploit mitigation techniques. Snort (NIPS, NIDS), OpenSSH (SFTP, SSH2/DSA key management), VPNs (IPSec, OpenVPN), DNS extensions: DNSSEC, SPF, SSHFP, DomainKeys (DKIM). BIND, Unbound. Squid, proxies/cache controls, accelerated PHP (APC etc.), memcached, Apache, Lighttpd, ngnix. Sendmail, Postfix. Centralized logging (syslog-ng). MySQL, PostgreSQL. PF (Packet Filter), CARP, pfsync, IPFW, MikroTik, BGP/OSPF, IPv6, SSL/TLS. SMNP, CFengine, Puppet, Nagios, Cacti, MRTG; Bourne shell, some Prolog, Perl, HTML5 and CSS.

Artis Schlossberg’s Specialties:

Firewalls with sensible QoS policies, bandwidth/traffic prioritization and fail-over capabilities. High availability storage systems and servers, spam-free mail exchange hosts, secure web hosting. Recognition of active attacks, network security incident response. Determining, assessing and solving existing vulnerabilities. Protecting information and business interests. Investigating security alerts. Executing pen-tests and post-intrusion forensic analysis. Systems and website performance tuning.

Artis Schlossberg’s Experience

Consultant

infosec.lv

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2008 — Present (2 years )

infosec.LV has received consulting offers from large traffic sites with requests to resolve their scalability and performance issues. Depending on the problem at hand, a number of load balancing servers are introduced, changes are made to the existing infrastructure to accommodate increase in the number of visitors. Last but not least, effective suggestions are made to the respective webmasters, e.g., CSS Sprites, non-blocking Javascript etc. Results: busy e-commerce sites are not losing customers due to bad user-experience. infosec.LV is in the website performance tuning, high availability servers, storage systems and security business.