Summary
Ernő Rigó is a cybersecurity leader and academic based in Budapest with 11 years of professional experience and a career spanning research, operational security, and education. Holding CISA and CISSP certifications and serving as a Hungarian judicial expert and CISO, he leads network security and internet technologies at HUN-REN SZTAKI while teaching and developing network security courses at Óbuda University. His expertise blends hands-on infrastructure management—private cloud, backbone networks, identity management—and strategic capabilities like security automation, threat intelligence collection, and open-protocol architectures. He has a deep research background from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and maintains an independent IT consultancy, reflecting a habit of turning research insights into production-ready services. Unusually for a practitioner, he combines formal judicial expert duties with operational leadership, giving him a rare perspective on technical, legal, and procedural aspects of cyber incidents.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Security, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Security at Obuda University - John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics
MSc, specialized in the development of information infrastructures, MSc, specialized in the development of information infrastructures at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
English, Hungarian