Passionate about solving challenges both small and complex, I specialize in IT transformations and strategic initiatives across greenfield, brownfield, and greyfield environments. My expertise spans IT infrastructure and cybersecurity due diligence in M&A, security strategy development, and aligning initiatives with leading industry frameworks. By bridging the gap between business and technology, I help organizations foster innovation, enhance resilience, and accelerate growth.
I bridge the gap between business and technology, helping stakeholders understand the deep interdependence of both worlds. From an early age, I have been drawn to new technologies - their strengths, their limitations, and the opportunities they create - an interest I have continuously developed through education, hands-on experience, and research.
My work is also shaped by my extracurricular commitments, such as serving as president of the communal orphanage, where I contribute to initiatives that strengthen our community.

Work

My work focuses on Cyber, Innovation and Security projects in both the private and public sector. Such include, among others, the following:

• Swiss Electronic Patient Record (EPR)
• Strategic IT department goal composition
• Crisis playbooks with focus on cyber incidents and contingency planning
• Technical auditor for IT environments e.g. ISO/IEC 27001 and Public-Key-Infrastructure (PKI)
• Forensic expertise for a car manufacturer (EnCase, FTK and Relativity)
• Review and recommendation of critical IT infrastructures
• Analysis and assessment of silent cyber risks and not explicitly excluded “Kumul” risks
• Design and conduct of tabletop exercises for IT services/Security Operations Center (SOC)
• Implementation of information security management system (ISMS) controls according to ISO/IEC 27001

Research

My research consists of methods and systematic approaches on gathering information and data sets from the Web:

• A. Gröflin (2018). Web Observations: Analysing Web Data through automated Data Extraction, Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Science
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• A. Gröflin, M. Weber, M. Guggisberg, and H. Burkhart (2017). Traffic Flow Measurement of a Public Transport System through automated Web Observation, IEEE Eleventh Int. Conf. on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), Brighton, UK, 2017, 156161. DOI: 10.1109/RCIS.2017.7956532
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• S. Price, W. Hall , G. Earl, [and 17 others, including A. Gröflin] (2017). Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Web Observatory: Applying Lessons from the Web to Transform the Research Data Ecosystem. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion (WWW 17 Companion), pages 1665-1667. DOI: 10.1145/3041021.3051691
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• A. Gröflin (2016). Poster session, Real-Time Web Observations: Data Science meets HPC, poster presentation for the 45th SPEEDUP workshop
• A. Gröflin, D. Bosch, M. Guggisberg. and H. Burkhart (2015). Facilitating the Reactive Web – A Condition Action System using Node.js. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, ISBN 978-989-758-106-9, pages 89-95. DOI: 10.5220/0005446800890095
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