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It’s “My Career at KEC” time! Join us as we explore Daniel Schuster’s path as a Senior Information Security Manager, highlighting how shifting perspectives from breaking security to architecting it can build structural systems that last. 🔐 When I joined KEC at the start of 2024, I came in from a deep-tech background - and the other side of security. I'd spent years as a researcher, penetration tester, and red team lead. The whole job is to prove that the walls fail. At some point, the higher-leverage problem became obvious: not finding the next vulnerability, but designing systems that address root causes systematically rather than patching them one at a time. So I made a deliberate move; from breaking security to architecting it. At KEC, that meant building our Information Security Management System from the ground up. With that foundation in place, I'm now spending the capital I built on the work I find most worth doing: leaning back toward GRC engineering, to operationalize the system and automate the pure-compliance overhead out of it. Because that's the part I care about most - we don't treat paperwork as security. 💡 During my time here, two main things stuck with me. First, the system beats the hero. Anyone can fight one fire well, but security that depends on individual heroics has already failed because it doesn't scale or survive when that person leaves. I stopped asking "how to solve this?" and started asking "how do I build something that solves it without me?" Second, if you get good enough at the work, autonomy follows. One hard but utterly important skill in security is translation: half the job is turning executive risk appetite into concrete engineering work, and the other half is turning technical blockers into language a board can act on. Because we work fully remote and async, influence here isn't about being the loudest in the room. It’s about being clear enough in writing that people can make good decisions without you even being there. 🏆 My absolute favorite moment was watching our ISMS maturity jump from 30% to 60% in a single assessment cycle. On paper, it's just a number. But behind it were months of pulling scattered spreadsheets, disconnected findings, and tribal knowledge into a single system people could actually steer. That was the moment the plan stopped being just a plan and started being real. That's the kind of win I'm here for: quiet, structural, and built to last. 🤝 Want to become a part of our journey as well? Apply today: https://lnkd.in/e9-JRtdY #ThisIsWhoWeAre #KauflandECommerce #KECCulture #JobSearch #RemoteWork