György Vasvari

Between 1953 and 1957, he was a maintenance engineer at the Hungarian Posta Transmission Technology Plant. Between 1957 and 1959, he participated in the construction of the first Hungarian computer, the M-3, at the Cybernetics Research Group (KKCS) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences - he was an electrical installation manager and then deputy director.

From 1959 to 1968, he was the head of the computer center at the Computer Center of the Ministry of the Interior (BM). His duties included, among others, the maintenance of the punch card machine park and the operation of the Bull G3B2T computer.

Between 1968 and 1983, he was deputy technical director and then director at the Trade Organization Institute (Kerszi). His task was to establish and operate domestic trade computer centers.
His early patents: electronic punched tape-punched card converter (jointly with József Dénes, 1961); INVENTOMAT inventory recording and evaluation device (jointly with Péter Nagy and Gábor Feleki, 1976).

From 1983 to 1989, as the head of the Computer Center of the Hungarian National Bank, he was responsible for operating computers and preparing the computer network serving the banking system.

Between 1989 and 1992, he was one of the founders and CEO of Giro Settlement Center Co., Ltd. (Giro Co.), responsible for building the center, purchasing and operating IT equipment, and organizing the company.

Since 1992, he has worked as a self-employed (as a retiree) IT security expert (security auditing, security consulting, audit quality assurance).

In 1994, he was one of the founders of the postgraduate banking and financial informatics training program established at the BME Department of Social Informatics, later known as the Department of Information and Knowledge Management (ITM). He was a lecturer at the department from 1994 to 2007, and an honorary associate professor from 2002. Since 2009, he has been one of the relaunchers of the training program at the Budapest College of Communication and Business. He is a prominent figure in the domestic education of information security and corporate IT security management.

He is an internationally recognized expert in information security (Certified Information Security Manager, CISM).
Founding member and former deputy secretary general of the Hungarian National Security Association. Registered as an IT security expert at the Hungarian National Security Association since 1992; Information System Audit Expert since 2011.
He has more than 120 professional publications.

In the early 2000s, he prepared a pictorial compilation of Hungarian IT history, which was one of the ideas behind the launch of the IT History Database. (The version of the compilation, completed in 2013 and consisting of four parts and appendices, can be found in the Database.)

Awards: Neumann Award (NJSZT, 1983); MTESZ Award (Association of Technical and Natural Sciences Associations, 1987); Certificate of Honor (Information Systems Audit and Control Association, 1997); Certificate of Appreciation (Information Security Manager of Appreciation – ISACA, 2003); Lifetime Achievement Award (NJSZT, 2009); Lifetime Achievement Award (ISACA Budapest Chapter, 2012); “Guide Professional of the Year” – posthumous security award (Information Security Day – ITBN CONF-EXPO, 2015).