Foppa IT PC-Hilfe Chur GmbH

About me

My name is Robert Foppa and I am a computer scientist with a federal FA and ISO 27001 Information Security Lead Auditor certification. My career in computer science began in 1979 with training as a programmer/analyst and then as a systems specialist. Both at IBM.

I worked as a programmer/analyst, systems, network, backup & restore, output, automation, robotics, and security engineer, as well as a data center manager with over 800 servers (mainframe, AIX, Unix, Solaris, Linux, SAP, Netware, Windows) at two locations, over 1,200 PCs, hundreds of printers, scanners, readers, and over 3,500 network devices, and as an IT security auditor:

• Locally for more than three decades for Graubündner Kantonalbank

• Nationally for major Swiss corporations such as T-Systems Switzerland, Bank Coop, SBB Swiss Federal Railways, Mobiliar Insurance, Visana Health Insurance, Coop Leben, KPT Health Insurance, and others

• Internationally for major European corporations such as T-Systems International, T-Systems Austria, Audi, BMW, Mercedes Germany, Mercedes France, Seat, Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche Post, Alcan/Constellium Industries, Airbus Industries, Crédit Logement, Yves Rocher, IATA International Air Transport Association, and others

Track record:

Projects and in-house developments:

• Creation and implementation of IT security concept (2 banks)

• Security administration + security audit of banks, insurance companies, automotive, aviation, rail, telecommunications, heavy industry, and service providers

• Programming of ATMs, domestic payment transactions, and packaging line (bank)

• Creation and implementation of IT disaster prevention concept and development of automated backup and recovery procedures for the commissioning of a complete data center (bank) at an external location, from 0 to 100% in less than 8 hours

• Creation and enhancement of IT security and IT security reporting (banks, insurance companies, transport, industry)

• Hundreds of programs, functions, procedures, tools, automatisms, and sequence controls for network, output, operation, logical and physical security (data and access protection), development, robotics, virus prevention, security, monitoring, interfaces to SAP and third-party application solutions, personnel administration, data exchange with national, giro, and postal banks, as well as national (SIC Swiss Interbank Clearing) and international payment systems (SWIFT Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication), etc.

• Over 30 other projects based on my ideas, which I developed, programmed, and automated for error prevention, quality improvement, integration environment, audit-proof access to production systems, creation and enhancement of physical and logical security, and many tools to reduce the workload of employees

• Detection and correction of security vulnerabilities for local, national, and international corporations with up to 300,000 employees

• Creation and attainment of audit compliance with national and international auditing bodies such as KPMG, Price Waterhouse, Ernst & Young, Deloitte, and others.

• Virus protection, manipulation detection and defense, reporting, performance improvements, and much more

• Participation in dozens of other projects