
IT & Security Services Director
Gijón Area, Spain

IT & Security Services Director
Gijón Area, Spain
Samuel Linares is IT & Security Services Director with Grupo Intermark. With +14 years of security, system integration and project management experience. He leads and has created all the security services offered by Grupo Intermark, and before in Tecnocom, one of the top 3 IT companies in Spain, implementing a lot of security solutions in customers, including compliance audits, penetration tests, ethical hacking, firewalls and IPSs deployments or security network designs. He holds various certifications including ISACA CISA, CISM & CGEIT, (ISC)2 CISSP, GIAC Systems and Network Auditor (GSNA), GIAC Assessing Wireless Networks (GAWN), Google Hacking & Defense (SSP-GHD), BSI (British Standards Institution) BS 25999 & BS 7799 Lead Auditor, NetAsq CNE & CNE, Juniper JNCIA-FW, Checkpoint CCSE & CCSA, Sun SCNA & SCSA, among others and is the author of InfoSecMan Blog. Samuel holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the Universidad de Oviedo, is University Specialist in Data Protection by the Colegio Universitario Escorial Maria Cristina and is currently attending UOC for Psychology Grade. He is author of IS2ME Methodology. (You can obtain more information about Samuel in his personal web page: InfoSecMan)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; CIB; Telecommunications industry)
1998 — August 2008 (10 years )
Founder, Developer and Manager of the Security Business Line
IT Security Manager
Senior Security Consultant
Senior Internetworking & Internet Services Consultant
Project Manager for important security projects in clients like Telefonica Moviles, Alcampo (Auchan), Deutsche Bank, ENAGAS, Nortel, Metro of Madrid, Caprabo, ALD Automotive, ONO, Telecable, Telia Iberia, Unisource, University of Leon, Junta Castilla y Leon, UTi Iberia, Cajastur, among others.
Outsourced Customer Engineering Manager for Jazztel during 2000.
Leads and has created all the security services offered by Tecnocom, one of the top 3 IT companies in Spain, implementing a lot of security solutions in customers mentioned, including compliance audits, penetration tests, ethical hacking, firewalls and IPSs deployments or security network designs.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
1995 — 1998 (3 years )
Technical Director, IT Manager and R&D Manager
European Projects Manager: Development of ArchiPELAGO Project with Sasemar (Spain), France Telecom Expertel (France), Enyca (Spain) and Marac Electronics (Greece) (speaker from Spain in Brussels KickOff Meeting)
InfoWeb Electronic Bulleting Editor and Coordinator (more than 9000 subscribers)
Led the company to the first places of national ranking of ISPs (sources: PCWorld, Revista Web)
Author of one of the first electronic commerce projects in Spain between AirAstur and Banesto
Checkpoint Firewall-1 Administrator since 1995
Psychology , 2009 — 2012 (expected)
CISM , 2009 — 2009
CGEIT , 2009 — 2009
BS 25999 Lead Auditor , 2008 — 2008
CISA , 2008 — 2008
CISSP , 2007 — 2007
GSNA, GAWN, SSP-GHD , 2005 — 2007
University Specialist in Data Protection , 2002 — 2003
BS 7799 Lead Auditor , 2002 — 2002
BS , Computer Science
- Member of ISACA
- Member of ISSA
- Member of ISMS Forum
- Member of GIAC SANS Institute Advisory Board
- Vocal of ASIMELEC Security and Awareness Commission
- CGEIT: Certified in Governance of Enterprise IT
- CISM: Certified Information Security Manager
- CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
- CISSP: Certified Information Systems Security Professional
- BS 25999 Lead Auditor, BSI (British Standards Institution)
- BS 7799 Lead Auditor, BSI (British Standards Institution)
- GSNA: GIAC Systems and Network Auditor
- GAWN: GIAC Assessing Wireless Networks
- SSP-GHD: Stay Sharp Program Google Hacking and Defense
- SANS Advisory Board Member
- CNE: Certified NetAsq Expert
- CNA: Certified NetAsq Administrator
- JNCIA-FW: Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate Firewalls
- CCSE: Checkpoint Certified System Expert
- CCSA: Checkpoint Certified System Administrator
- SCNA: Sun Certified Network Administrator
- SCSA: Sun Certified System Administrator
- Enterprise Technical Computing Certification, Sun Microsystems
- Workgroup Technical Computing Certification, Sun Microsystems