Consulting Area
Philipp’s consulting activities are focused on the organizational aspects of information security. He is working as a trainer and holds several certifications including the ISACA CISA, ISC2 CISSP and ISO27001 Lead Auditor.
His core activities include:
- Information security management systems (ISMS)
- Security awareness
- ISO27001/ISO 27002 Gap Analysis
- Business impact analyses
- IT/IS audit
- Information security risk management
- CISA and CISSP trainings
- Cyber Security Essentials trainings
Research Interests
During education Philipp’s research focused on surveys on information security in companies while now he is focusing on the various forms of bias in surveys and statistics in general.
He is also doing research in the area of behavioral economics and how these ideas and concepts of heuristics and human bias can be applied to risk management (especially its psychological aspects) and security in general. Besides that, another area of his interests is the broad field of information security economics.
Bio
Philipp received a bachelor’s degree in IT-Security at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences in 2013 and received a master’s degree in Information Security at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences in 2015. For his master thesis he conducted a survey in which he analyzed the security posture of companies in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
He holds several industry certificates including the ISACA CISA and ISC2 CISSP.