Ivan Kutov

linkedin | Almaty, Kazakhstan |

I work in IT field, since 2004 and have rich experience in:

  • Enterprise infrastructure setting up and support, including various network and server equipment.
  • Developing information security strategy, processes, policies, tender document technical specifications, manuals.
  • Conducting different security products pilots.

Experience

V-office LLP (Kazakhstan), Information Security Advisor May 2017 – Present

Systems integrator company responsibilities:

  • Information security audit and/or Penetration testing
  • Company and customers processes optimization/development
  • Information security Training for internal stuff (skills improvement, cyber security awareness)
  • Customer infrastructure optimization
  • Pilot project implementation with further deployment into production
  • Securing business processes
  • Cloud and network administration

SOC (security operation center) as a service for telecom/service provider company:

  • ISMS administration and control
  • Incident response
  • Forensics
  • Vulnerability management

NDA ·Full-time ·CISO Sep 2024 - Present

  • Securing business processes
  • Development of Information Security strategy.
  • Development of regulatory documents

Corporate Business Systems (Kazakhstan), Information Security Advisor\Engineer June 2019 – Sep 2024 · 5 yrs 4 mos Work with information security vendors: Check Point, PaloAlto, Fortigate, Cisco, IBM, McAfee, Symantec, Positive Technologies, Fudo PAM, Wallix, CyberArk, Microsoft.

  • Infrastructure Audit.
  • Information security audit
  • Threat Inteligence analysis.
  • Securing business processes
  • Development of Information Security strategy.
  • Development of regulatory documents

Life 2 Win LLP (Almaty), Information Security Engineer May 2017 – Nov 2017 7 months

Work with information security vendors: Check Point, PaloAlto, Kaspersky KATA, McAfee, Symantec DLP. Fortigate, Positive Technologies

  • Infrastructure Audit.
  • Information security audit and/or Penetration testing
  • Development of Information Security strategy.
  • Threat Inteligence analysis.
  • Securing business processes

Softline LLP (Almaty), Information Security Engineer Oct 2015 – Apr 2017 1 year 7 months

Work with information security vendors: McAfee, Balabit SCB, PaloAlto, Dell, Trustwave, PT, Fotrigate, Symantec, Splunk, FireEye.

  • Pilot project implementation with further deployment into production
  • Company and customers processes optimization/development;
  • Information security Training for internal stuff (skills improvement, cyber security awareness);

NURBANK (Almaty), Senior Information Security Engineer Jul 2014 – Oct 2015 1 year 4 months

  • Implementation and support of Email gateway, Web gateway control systems
  • Implementation of SIEM, IDS, Change Control systems
  • Management of DLP, Cisco CSA,
  • Identifying vulnerabilities, checking for possible hacking systems.
  • Administration of Windows and Linux servers.
  • PCI DSS Compliance

IRIS Enterprise Services LLP (Almaty), Outstaff Engineer Jul 2013 – Jul 2014 1 year 1 months

  • Administration Windows servers 2008r2, 2012R2 (AD, DHCP, DNS, Mail, Proxy, 1C, terminal servers, Hyper-V)
  • Work with Linux systems (Ubuntu, Debian, Centos)
  • Configuring network systems (NAT, VPN, Routing, Firewall)
  • Project managment.
  • Helpdesk.

MS-Service (Almaty), Outsourcing Engineer Jan 2009 – May 2013 4 years 5 months

  • Support Windows servers (AD, DHCP, DNS, Mail, Proxy, 1C, Vmware ESXI)
  • Work with Linux systems (Ubuntu, Mandriva)
  • Work with SAP, Cognos, VPN, Citrix XenDesktop, Cisco systems.
  • Helpdesk.

Indoor Television LLP (Almaty), Software Specialist, video engineer Sep 2007 – Jun 2008 10 months

  • Development and processing of promotional movies
  • Development and support of software
  • Assembly of computers, software installation

Alser computers LLP (Almaty), Computer assembly, tester Jul 2004 – May 2005 11 months

  • Assembly of computers
  • Install and configure software
  • Testing and maintenance hardware and software

Core Competence

Network device vendors: Fortigate, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Cisco, Vmware NSX, Juniper SRX*, Opensource products

Virtual platforms: VMWare, VCloud director, Citrix XenServer, Citrix XenApp, KVM, Vagrant.

Operation systems: FreeBSD, Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows Servers

Security:

SIEM – McAfee, Splunk, IBM Qradar, Arcsight, PT.

Mail gateway - McAfee, Kaspersky, Cisco.

Web gateway - McAfee, Forcepoint, Kaspersky, Paloalto, Fortigate, Cisco.

Endpoint - McAfee, Kaspersky, Checkpoint, Trendmicro.

WAF – Trustwave, PositiveTechnology, F5, Imperva.

DLP – McAfee, Symantec, Infowatch, Garda, Websense, Devicelock, GTB, IP guard.

PAM - Balabit SCB, CyberArk, Fudo, Wallix.

ATD – McAfee, Kaspersky, Checkpoint, FireEye.

Nac - ForeScout.

ICS - CyberX.

Backup – Symantec, Veritas, Dell, Comvault.

Kali tools.

Education

Turan University, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Bachelor, Computing Equipment and Automated Systems
Dates attended or expected graduation 2008 – 2011

Central-Asia Technical and Economic College, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Programming engineer, Cumputer programming
Dates attended or expected graduation 2005 – 2008

Certifications and trainings

  1. ISO/IEC 27000-27007; ISO/IEC 27011;
  2. Deployment, administration and configuration of F5 BIG-IP
  3. FudoPAM Security Certified Administrator
  4. Wallix Certified Professional / WCP-P
  5. BQ203 IBM® QRadar SIEM Advanced Topics
  6. IBM Power Systems for AIX - Virtualization I
  7. IBM Elastic Storage System (ES)
  8. Thycotic International Pre-Sales Engineer
  9. Infowatch DLP
  10. Palo Alto PSE: Strata Associate
  11. Palo Alto PSE: Foundamentals
  12. Fortinet Teleworker Solution: Engineered for Remote and Secure Productivity v6.2
  13. Fortinet NSE ZTNA Series
  14. McAfee EMEA Database Security
  15. McAfee EMEA Ad Hoc
  16. McAfee NSP lc
  17. McAfee ePO 5.1 lc
  18. McAfee EWS lc
  19. McAfee SIEM ACE
  20. McAfee DLP ACE
  21. McAfee NSP ACE
  22. MCP: Microsoft Certified Professional