Safa Çalışkan

Cyber Security Technical Lead at Ford Otosan, CCNP

Türkiye

About

A cybersecurity and network enthusiast with more than 12 years of security experience in various sectors and enterprise applications as automotive and telco.Believing that continuous self-improvement is the key asset for success.My strategy aims to build resilience to cyber threats and ensure clients and businesses benefit from trustworthy digital technologies. I love risk and decision making as a driving factor responsible for the adoption of security best practices within the organization.Proven ability to perform well excellent technical leadership, communication, co-ordination, customer's service, solving skills.

Experience

  • Ford Otosan (6 yrs 9 mos)
    • Cyber Security Technical Lead
      Nov 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

    • Senior Cyber Security Administrator
      Nov 2019 - Nov 2023 · 4 yrs 1 mo

      Main Responsibilities ; - Ford Motor Company and Koç Holding Information Security regulation follow and support. - Act as a point of contact for in case of security incident or data breach and support the actions to investigate and also to mitigate identified risks. -Contributes to professional and long term relationship with sales and other Ford companies through Ford Otosan way of doing business, based on co-operation, trust and transparency. - Onprem and Cloud security systems architecture design and management. - Connected vehicle infrastructure build and improve with security by design principles. - Devsecops architecture design and implementation. - Azure cloud security system management; - Security Center risk score improvement, - Compliance check and policy hardening for Office 365 tools (Sharepoint,Intune,MAM,Microsoft Teams,DLP.Document Classification.) - Policy hardening with F5 Waf management. - OT Security re-design and incident management with Claroty. - L4/L7 DDOS Protection policy analyze and improvement. - Endpoint (anti-virus and media control) security support. (Symantech, Trendmicro,Defender) - Security Incident and Event Management. - Threat Intelligence and Modelling. - L3/L7 Vulnerability scan report consulting. (Nessus, Appscan) - Checkpoint & Palo Alto firewall management . - E-mail security management with Proofpoint. - Coorperation for Vehicle security standarts&vulnerability analyze .(ISO/SAE21434) - Compliance and policy management, deployment and incident analyze for ISO 27001 ,KVKK(Turkish Personal Data Protection Law) and GDPR regulations.

  • Hyundai Assan (5 yrs 3 mos)
    • Cyber Security Administrator
      Dec 2017 - Nov 2019 · 2 yrs

      Main Responsibilities ; - Prevention for Hyundai Turkey Network , Systems and Users from internal&external attacks. - Lead to Hyundai Turkey Cyber Security system. - ISO27001 and Hyundai Motor Company security policies follow and support. - URL/Web Filtering policy management. - Endpoint anti-virus and media control security support. (Symantech, Trendmicro) - Information security policies and incident management. - SSL/IPSec VPN support. - HYUNDAI Production , Sales & Dealers Network and Security management . - Siem log management with IBM Qradar. - Vulnerability scan management (Nessus, Appscan) - Network & Server Access Control (NAC and SAC). - Mobile Phone MDM and Mail security system control. - Anti-spam control. - WSUS Security update management. - Cisco ASA 5515x,5520, Fortigate 200D,240D, 500E And 800C firewall configuration&management. Projects; HYUNDAI ASSAN ISO/27001 Certification - ISO 27001 certification security and network requirement analyze and improvements. Information security and documentation. Cisco ASA to Fortigate Firewall Migration - Configuration and risk analyze - Operation management and support. Web Application Firewall Implementation - Configuration support&plan and desing for web structure. Fireeye Malware System Implementation - New malware detection system project has been implemented.

    • Network Administrator
      Sep 2014 - Dec 2017 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      HYUNDAI Automative İzmit Branch was founded in 1997 in İzmit Alikahya for manufacturing cars. - Lead to LAN & WAN network. - Cisco 4503 , 4506 , 6506 , 6509 backbone switch management. - Cisco 2950 , 2960 , 3560 , 3650 , Nexus 3000 series access switch configuration and management. - VLAN and Access-list configuration and following to Cisco IOS upgrade. - User NAC (network access control) management. - HYUNDAI Production(MES), Sales & Dealers Network management and improvement. - Periodic Disaster Recovery network transfer test & support. - Wireless Network management . - Dynamic Arp Inspection And DHCP Snooping configuration management for DDOS. - HSRP for network device redundancy. - IP SLA configuration for effective line redundancy. Projects ; New Data Center Project (Aug. 2017) - All Network And Security Devices Port-Map Analyze - Fiber Optic Cable Patch Pannel Location Change Plannig,Documentation And Operation Management. - New cabin's cabling and patch infrastructure plan. Disaster Recovery Project between Izmit - Istanbul (Feb. 2017) - DR Network And Security plan desing and operation . - New DR Backbone And Firewall Implementation . - Real time replication data line speed increase. Hyundai New Local Network Implementation.(2015 to 2017) - Network design and device onfiguration. - Operation management and support.

  • Wireless Network Engineer at Türk Telekom
    Jul 2013 - Sep 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Turk Telekom provides national and international communication solutions customized for its users’ requirements. Projects ; KYK Dormitory WiFi Project (Kredi Yurtlar Kurumu Wi-fi) - Cisco network devices build all of Turkey for KYK dormitories , - 27.000 Cisco Access Point(1041 Series) - 4000 Cisco Switch (2960 Series) - 2000 Check Point Firewall - 20 Gbit User Traffic Management - Configuration design, operation and asset management. - 12 Wireless Controller Management.(1 Controller/5000 AP Support) - Cisco WCS and NCS Control. Managed wi-fi projects. - TTNET Wifi - Turk Telekom Arena Wi-fi (Galatasaray Stadium heat map discovery and Infrastructure Analyze) - IETT Bus Wi-fi (3g to Wi-fi Modem stabilization and performance tests) - IDO Wi-fi - IBB Wi-fi projects.