Zafer Balkan
Security And Compliance Manager Nets Estonia at DeltaZulu
Tallinn, Harju maakond, Estonia
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Top SchoolZafer Balkan is a cybersecurity and IT operations leader with eight years of experience, currently serving as Security and Compliance Manager at Nets Estonia where he drives PCI compliance, risk assessment, and business continuity for payments systems. He combines hands-on sysadmin and software development roots from military and NATO roles with formal MS-level cybersecurity training from TalTech, enabling pragmatic security decisions across SDLC and infrastructure. Zafer has led defensive cyber operations, vendor and incident management, and continuity planning in high-stakes environments, and is skilled at translating technical controls into auditable business processes. Notably, his background as a military officer and CISSO gives him operational discipline and an insider’s view on integrating cyber resilience into mission-critical systems.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Systems Engineering / Industrial Engineering, BSc, Systems Engineering / Industrial Engineering at Turkish Military AcademyMaster of Science - MS, Cybersecurity, Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity at TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology
English, Turkish
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
command-line-interface10
security-automation10
rego10
operating-system10
modular10
unix10
winget10
security-scanner10
auditing10
ips10
twitter-client10
utilities10
cursors10
disk-space10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
zbalkan/eolchecker
Aug 2022 - Jun 2026
EOL Checker is a simple application which gathers EOL information for software and hardware and allows you to query locally.
Contributions:14 PRs, 27 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 10 months
hardwareend-of-lifeend-of-service-lifeend-of-supportproduct-lifecycle
zbalkan/ditjson
Jan 2024 - Jul 2026
Speeds up the extraction of password hashes from ntds.dit files. For use with the ntdsxtract project or the dshash script
Contributions:5 PRs, 42 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 6 months
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