Damir Savanovic

Damir Savanovic

Senior Researcher and Innovation Analyst, Cloud Security Alliance
@DamirSavanovic

Damir Savanovic is a Senior Innovation Analyst at Cloud Security Alliance with over 13 years of experience in the area of information security, assurance and risk management. His work focused on CloudWatch and PICSE projects while he is currently leading the activities on EU-SEC project and he is a member of the CSA International Standardization Council. Damir is also project manager of CSA Financial Services Stakeholder Platform and Open Certification working groups.
In past Damir worked as Chief Information Security Officer and IT Quality Manager in SKB, Société Générale Group, where he had a key role in planning, organising, managing and controlling the functions of information security in the bank. He developed standards, recommendations and guidelines for information security based on ISO 27001 and PCI DSS and before that for quality of IT processes based on COBIT and ITIL frameworks. Before joining Société Générale Group, Damir worked as Information Systems Auditor at Ernst & Young. He worked in variety of industries including financial, telecommunications, manufacturing and retail in the Central Eastern Europe. Damir graduated from University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) in Information Technology and holds CCSK, CISM, CISA and ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor certifications.