Marco Di Filippo

After his vocational training as an electrician as well as a radio and TV technician Marco Di Filippo graduated successfully as an electrical technician, special field of communication technologies, at the Handwerkskammer in Bayreuth/Germany in 1998. In 1999 he was assigned the personal accreditation for installing IT and telecommunication user systems by the Federal School of Electrical Engineering in Oldenburg/Germany.

Since 1986 he has been dealing with the broad spectrum of information electronics. As from 1996 he has been working in the field of IT-Consulting, the main focus on ICT security and ICT strategy followed in 1998. Before joining Compass Security AG he was a managing director of VisuKom Germany where he was responsible for the areas of technics, marketing and distribution for 10 years. His specialist areas are technical and organisational-conceptual security tests, security concepts, coaching, presentations on ICT security topics and strategic counselling. With his conceptual design he contributed a great deal to the spreading of ICT security awareness (in Germany) which has been gaining more and more relevance due to the market development of VoIP. He has long-term experience in project management as well as counselling in various fields.

He has recently filed a constitutional complaint in Germany against §202c (hacker paragraph) which is regarded as highly controversial by the media and the IT security business.

As the Business Development Manager respectively the Regional Director Germany of Compass Security AG, Marco Di Filippo is responsible for the German economic area. In addition, he regularly works as a speaker at universities and universities of applied sciences, at technical conferences, at trade fairs as well as in seminars and workshops. He also writes articles for the specialised press on a regular basis.