Kengo Suzuki

Identity Engineer, Chief Information Security Officer

I have over 6 years of experience as a security engineer and 2 years of experience as a developer. Working as a security group leader under a start-up achieved IPO, I have a solid deep experience in driving and implementing security policies which maximize business opportunities.

Work Experience

FOLIO, Inc., Senior Security Architect, Jan 2018 ~ Present

Leading company-wide initiatives, transformations, and various aspects of Information Technology Security and Governance for Japan
- Leading a team of 8 full time and 2 subcontracts
- Increased efficiency of operation while saving 10% of budgets
- Building a strategic plan by combining a guideline from the Japanese Financial Services Agency and Cyber Security Framework from NIST.
- Utilizing AzureAD, Intune, Jamf, AWS, and others for the purpose of automated internal systems
- Enabling 100+ members on enabling remote works in safe and convenient manner
- Associated with external organizations, such as JPCERT/CC, 金融ISAC, and OpenID Foundation, for building next-gen policies

Money Forward, Inc., Security Group Leader, Nov 2014 ~ Dec 2017

Implemented security policy, standard, procedures in preparing for the IPO.
Architected and implemented the overall company’s internal system including id management systems, device management, password management, endpoint protection, RBAC, networks, and more.
Conducted Web vulnerability assessments for our Web apps and API endpoints mainly using BurpSuite. While doing the assessment by ourselves, private bug bounty program has been run.
Implemented automation tools for automating daily system administrator’s operations.

NRI Secure Technologies, Junior Security Analyst & Incident Handler, Oct 2011 ~ Oct 2014

- Handled Incident response for multiple companies across industries, including one of the largest financial institution in Japan.
- Built and deployed various network-based security appliances such as Juniper SSG, SourceNext(Snort), BIG-IP(ASM), focusing on improving web-based security while maintaining availability, fault tolerance.
- Managed logs collection scheme and built collelated analysis in ArchSight(SIEM) in order to carry out SOC(SecurityOperationCenter).
Developedaneasy-to-installcloudbasedWAFserviceusingIncapsula.

Education

University of California, Berkeley, Master of Science (MS), Mechanical Engineering & Mechatronics, 2010 ~ 2011

University of California, Berkeley, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, 2006 ~ 2011

Skills


  • Programming: Golang, JAVA(Android), Kotlin, Python, Ruby, Objective-C
  • Languages: English(Business), Japanese(Native)
  • Systems: Terraform(Contributor), Teleport, GCP, AWS, GSuite, Azure AD, Active Directory, Okta, Intune, Jamf, Graylog, ArchSight, Logstash, Beats, Fortigate, Juniper SSG, CISCO ASA, Big-IP LTM, Big-IP ASM, Snort, Imperva

Publications


俺らの愛したセキュリティ

  • Written the first Japanse book explaining about FAPI WG (http://openid.net/wg/fapi/)'s "Read Only" security profile
  • More than 300 sales 
  • https://booth.pm/ja/items/864595


No Security No Life

  • Written the first Japanse book explaining about FAPI WG (http://openid.net/wg/fapi/)'s "Read and Write" security profile
  • More than 300 sales
  • https://booth.pm/ja/items/1042809