Petar Nikolov Kirkov

Chief Information Security Officer · Cyber Risk & Regulatory Compliance

Sofia, Bulgaria  ·  [email protected]  ·  +359 876 104350

Profile

Senior cybersecurity executive with close to three decades of experience across financial services, critical infrastructure and regulated industry. I build and lead enterprise security functions, own group-level risk and compliance programmes, and represent the security organisation to boards, auditors and supervisory authorities.

My background spans EU regulatory frameworks — NIS2, DORA, GDPR, PCI DSS, IOT RED — alongside security operations, incident response and third-party risk. I am currently open to group CISO or equivalent executive mandates with international scope.

Selected focus areas

  • Enterprise security strategy, ISMS design and board-level governance
  • EU regulatory compliance and operational resilience
  • Security operations, detection engineering and SOC build-out
  • Third-party and supply chain risk across multi-entity groups

Curriculum vitae

Full professional history, certifications and clearances are in my CV:

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