About Petar Hristov

Petar Hristov is a Principal Advisory Director in the Security & Privacy practice at Info-Tech Research Group with a primary focus on information security governance and strategy, information risk management, security compliance, information security incident response, and IT audit management.

Petar has 19 years of experience in IT and information security, working for companies of all sizes, including Fortune 500 and regional companies in the banking, finance and insurance, and telecommunication industries for the EMEA and AMER regions.

His experience covers all aspects of leading and delivering security of large-scale IT transition and transformation initiatives, information security programs and strategies, development of policy and process, complex service improvement plans, risk and control assessment projects, design and deployment of control programs aligned with globally recognized standards and leading industry frameworks (such as COBIT, CIS18 critical security controls, NIST, ISO, and CMMC), advanced cybersecurity solution deployment, compliance through industry certification audits (ISO 27001/2, PCI DSS, SOC 1 and SOC 2, SOX), penetration testing and vulnerability management, business continuity and disaster recovery planning, investigation of security and privacy incidents, SLAs and KPI, and cloud security.

Petar holds a master’s degree of Business and Financial Control from Tsenov University of Economics and professional certifications including Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE).

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