About me

My name is Robert Foppa and I am a computer scientist with a federal diploma and Information Security Lead Auditor according to ISO 27001. My IT career began in 1979 with training as a programmer / analyst and then as a systems specialist. Both at IBM.

I worked as a programmer / analyst, system, network, backup & restore, output, automation, robotics and security engineer and as a data center manager with over 800 servers (mainframe, AIX, Unix, Solaris, Linux, SAP, Netware, Windows) at two locations, over 1,200 PCs, hundreds of printers, scanners, readers and over 3,500 network devices and as an IT security auditor:

• Locally more than 3 decades for Graubündner Kantonalbank

• Nationally for the largest Swiss corporations such as T-Systems Switzerland, Bank Coop, SBB Swiss Federal Railways, Mobiliar Insurance, Visana Health Insurance, Coop Life, KPT Health Insurance and others

• Internationally for major European corporations such as T-Systems International, T-Systems Austria, Audi, BMW, Mercedes Germany, Mercedes France, Seat, Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche Post, Alcan/Constellium Industries, Airbus Industries, Crédit Logement, Yves Rocher, IATA International Air Transport Association and others

Proven track record:

Projects and in-house developments:

• Development and implementation of IT security concept (2 banks)

• Security administration + security audit of banks, insurance companies, automotive, aviation, rail, telecommunications, heavy industry and service providers 

• Programming ATMs, domestic payment transactions and packaging line (bank)

• Creation and implementation of IT disaster preparedness concept and development of automated backup and recovery procedures for the commissioning of a complete data center (bank) at a third-party location, from 0 to 100% in under 8 hours

• Creation and enhancement of IT security and IT security reporting, (banking, insurance, transportation, industry)

• Hundreds of programs, functions, procedures, tools, automatisms and process controls for network, output, operation, logical and physical security  (data and access protection), development, roboting, virus prevention, security, monitoring, interfaces to SAP and third-party application solutions, personnel administration, data exchange with national, giro and postal banks as well as national (SIC Swiss Interbank Clearing) and international payment systems (SWIFT Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication), etc.

• Over 30 other projects based on my ideas, which I have developed, programmed and automated for error prevention, quality improvement, integration environment, audit-proof access to production systems, creation and enhancement of physical and logical security and many tools to relieve employees

• Discovering and eliminating security vulnerabilities for local, national and international corporations with up to 300,000 employees

• Establishing and obtaining audit assurance from national and international audit firms such as KPMG, Price Waterhouse, Ernst & Young, Deloitte and others

• Virus protection, manipulation detection and defense, reporting, performance enhancements and much more

• Participation in dozens of other projects