Nick Mitropoulos

Nick Mitropoulos is the CEO of Scarlet Dragonfly and has more than 20 years of experience in security training, cyber security, incident handling, vulnerability management, security operations, threat intelligence and data loss prevention. Nick is a certified ISC2 & EC-Council instructor, a GIAC advisory board member, EC-Council and SANS CISO board member, senior IEEE member, has an MSc (with distinction) in Advanced Security and Digital Forensics from Edinburgh Napier University and a BSc (with distinction and the highest held graduation grade of the department) in Computer Science and Telecommunications from the University of Thessaly, Greece. He has a great passion for teaching and has trained numerous professionals in a variety of security topics, mainly focusing in SIEM, security operation centers, incident response and security certification courses. Nick has worked for a variety of companies (including the Greek Ministry of Education, AT&T, F5 Networks, JP Morgan Chase, ASOS, KPMG and Deloitte) and has provided critical advice to many clients that want to improve their current security posture by creating new security operation centers and protocols, developing vulnerability management programs, managing third parties and security vendors, testing incident handling and forensic teams, redesigning perimeter security solutions, and developing custom-tailored training courses for company staff and specialised security teams. Nick holds over 50 security certifications including GIAC (GCIH, GPEN, GWAPT, GBFA, GISF, GSEC, GCLD), EC-Council (CEH, CEI Certified Instructor), ISC2 (CISSP, SSCP, Certified ISC2 instructor), CompTIA (CASP+, CYSA+, Security+), Cisco (CCNA Cyber Ops, CCNA Security, CCNA Routing & Switching, CCDA), Palo Alto (ACE), Qualys (Certified Specialist in AssetView and ThreatPROTECT, Cloud Agent, PCI Compliance, Policy Compliance, Vulnerability Management, Web Application Scanning), Splunk (Splunk Certified User) and many more. He also holds numerous awards and distinctions, like: United Nations Hall of Fame (https://unite.un.org/content/hall-fame), EC-Council Hall of Fame (https://www.eccouncil.org/ceh-hall-of-fame-winner-nick-mitropoulos/), Cisco champion and CyberOps scholar. If you want to contact Nick for any feedback or advice, feel free to use feedback@scarlet-dragonfly.com or https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickmitropoulos or follow him in Twitter(https://twitter.com/MitropoulosNick) or Medium (https://nickmitropoulos.medium.com).