Regional leading VAD, emt Distribution today announced the expansion of its team with the appointment of leading IT Security Guru, Erdal Ozkaya as its Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).
He is also a globally recognised award winning speaker and technical expert who has been part of several major conferences like Microsoft TechEd, Hacker Halted, Microsoft Management Summit, AusCERT, trade shows and have featured in webcasts for Microsoft and EC-Council and many other vendors. He was awarded “Best Speaker” in TechEd Australia and won the “Circle of Excellence Award” from EC Council. His proven success deployments especially in the areas of Microsoft workloads in real life has become subject to IT magazines across Australia and New Zealand.
Mohammad Mobasseri, CEO at emt Distribution, said, “Erdal is from Australia, and he had been working there in the management field for over 15 years. We are confident he will be a big asset to our orgnisation and also support the enterprises and government entities in the region to combat them against cyber-attacks or threats. His global experience and knowledge will bring new perspective to IT security in the region.”
Commenting on his appointment, Erdal said, “It is important to share the same vision and passion with whom you work. And I am glad emt shares similar vision and is passionate about their work which has lead them to be one of the fastest growing value added distributor across globe and in Middle East particular. Enterprises in this region need to embrace information security at much more pace to defend themselves against growing menace of cyber threats.”
