Katalin Szenes

He began his career in 1973 as a systems engineer at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Computer Science and Automation Research Institute (SZTAKI); he continued as a systems engineer at the Gedeon Richter pharmaceutical company and then at the Hungarian Telecommunications Company (MATÁV). After that, he was the deputy software director at LSI Application Technology Consulting Service (ATSZ). Between 1998 and 2001, he worked as an independent auditor.

Between 2002 and 2005, he headed the IT security department of Erste Bank Hungary Rt., where they developed the bank's secure network topology in addition to the entire IT security policy system. He has been an independent expert since 2006.

Between 2007 and 2009, he was responsible for the IT security of applications, the internet bank, projects and subsidiaries as a senior IT security expert at CIB Bank Zrt. Since 2009, he has been an independent security and IT security expert and auditor.

Meanwhile, at Óbuda University (ÓE), the former Budapest Technical College (BMF) and one of its legal predecessors, in 1998 he established – among the first in Hungary – the subject Introduction to IT Auditing, and in 2002 the subject Information Technology Security, and then in 2006 the Information Technology Security specialization was established at ÓE.
Since 1998, he has taught the logical and physical protection of IT assets and business continuity planning at the then only information system security auditor course in Hungary (Certified Information System Auditor (CISA) Review Course).

As a member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) Quality Assurance Team, he has been involved in the annual revision of the CISA Review Technical Information Manual published in the USA since 1998; this is what candidates all over the world use to prepare for the CISA exam. In 2010-2011, he was an Expert Reviewer in the development of ISACA's COBIT methodology version 5, and then in 2018 in the revision of COBIT 5 .

He participated in the preparation of the electronic signature and then electronic commerce laws. From 2003 until the end of the title, he was an expert on electronic signature services at the Hungarian Communications Authority (now the National Media and Communications Authority - NMHH). As a POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface for Unix) Pioneer, he participated in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Technical Committee (TC) on Operating Systems.

He defended his doctoral dissertation at ELTE in 1977. He obtained his PhD degree at the University of Budapest in 2014 with his thesis "Supporting Enterprise Governance on IT Security Bases".
Between 1998 and 2009, he obtained CISA, CISM, CGEIT and CISSP international qualifications from the American ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association) and ISC2 (International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium). (See his international qualifications below!) He participated in IT and physical security, audit, business continuity, system implementation, BPR (Business Project Reengineering) projects, and in the design of IT security architectures.
He is the chairman of the MNB IT Committee of the European Organization for Quality. He is the founding chairman of the IT Department of the Hungarian Association of Information and Communication Technologies (HTE), the (ISC)2 Hungary Chapter. He was the founding leader of the IT Security Working Group of the Hungarian Banking Association.

He has written numerous conference presentations and articles. He has been editing the Verlag Dashöfer Information Security Handbook since June 2006; he also writes chapters on information security issues related to the latest technologies and regulations.

Honors: Tivadar Puskás Award (HTE, 1994, 2002); Jubilee Medal and several gold and silver badges (HTE); Award for the Quality of Public Education (Minister of Education and Culture, 2003); EUQ Honorary Member (European Organization for Quality Hungarian National Committee IT Committee, 2011); Senior Professional Award (ISC2, global non-profit cybersecurity organization, 2021).