
Olga Limonova
Human Risk Management Expert | Cybersecurity
Salary / Daily rate
Luxembourg
Freelance
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Cybersecurity awareness expert with 7+ years transforming organizational security cultures through psychology-driven approaches. Proven success reducing phishing click rates from 17% to 3% in 5 months and training 1,800+ employees across global enterprises. I help companies build human-centered security programs that actually work.
Work experience
IT Security Awareness Specialist
Byborg Enterprises
Aug 2023 - Present
3 years 3 months
Luxembourg
· Designed and implemented a global security awareness strategy covering 6 countries / 10 subsidiaries / 1,8K employees. · Decreased phishing click rates from 17% to 3% within 5 months through targeted campaigns. · Organized IT Security Awareness Sessions and CTF competition for tech and non-tech colleagues. · Produced reports, e-courses, presentations, digital posters, monthly digests, newsletters and posts.
Сyber Security Awareness Specialist
Raiffeisen Bank Russia
Apr 2022 - Jul 2023
1 year 4 months
Moscow, Russia
- Development and maintenance of information security training courses - Development of materials and supervision of Security Champions (the practice of training 1-2 people within the development team in the basics of AppSec, to ensure the basic security of the product / service being developed and to act as a single point of contact with information security management) - Writing weekly news and articles for the corporate blog - Providing information support in matters of information security training (development of materials, recommendations, mailing lists, etc.) - Leading the professional cybersecurity community within the company - Organization and holding of meetups, webinars, online training and other internal events - Facilitating the participation of colleagues in external events and conferences on information security (as participants or speakers) - Conducting cyber exercises (sending simulated phishing attacks in order to test the skills of safe work with mail among bank employees)
Project Manager
Positive Technologies
Jun 2021 - May 2022
1 year
Moscow, Russia
- Project management within the framework of consulting (pentest, security analysis of websites, mobile applications, remote banking), investigations - Development and execution of all accompanying documentation - Communication with customers
Cyber Security Awareness Specialist
СБЕР
Mar 2021 - May 2021
3 months
Moscow, Russia
- Monitoring and analysis of information security events - Proactive search and detection of possible cyber fraud scenarios - Preparation of analytical reports and information and reference materials - Preparing cybersecurity training materials for employees and clients - Coordination, editing of materials on the topic of cybersecurity for clients / employees prepared by other departments - Development and maintenance of information and training projects to promote the basics / rules of cybersecurity for clients and employees - Preparation of plans and reports (weekly, quarterly, etc.) - Organization of cyber exercises for employees: interaction with performers, with colleagues from the bank's specialized departments, analysis of the results, preparation of a report
Researcher, Social engineering expert
Antiphish
Jul 2018 - May 2021
2 years 11 months
Moscow, Russia
- Coordination of information materials development department - Development and optimization of information security processes related to the human factor (organization of training and skills training for employees/clients, content development, etc.) - Conducting employee and customer training (ERIELL, Severstal, YUM, Gazpromneft, Inter RAO, Novotrans, Norilsk Nickel, Rosneft, RoskosmosBank, SO UES, UDP RK, Belagroprombank, NSD, Sababa, Swisscom, Expcapital, X5 Retail Group, Yandex, etc.) - Development of product methodology and accompanying processes, internal instructions and product instructions for clients, creation of simulated attacks (phishing emails, websites, attachments, etc. + knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and creation of training courses - Writing articles, research work in the field of social engineering, information security and psychology - Speaking at conferences (Antifraud Russia 2019, Bankit 2019, KREB 2019, IS CODE Sochi 2019, IS CODE Profi 2020, IS CODE Online 2020, Ural Forum 2020, SheLeadsTech.), communicating with customers - Drafting requests for developers and product development plan - Led lectures with S. Voldokhin in the AIS on Counteracting Social Engineering - Author of articles in the regular column "Social Engineering" in the "BIS Journal. Information Security of Banks"
Psychologist
ГБУ г. Москва
Aug 2012 - Jul 2018
6 years
Moscow, Russia
Education
University of Luxembourg
Master of Technology - MTech
2025 - 2027
1 year 11 months
Higher School of Economics
Master's degree
2016 - 2018
3 years
Moscow University of Industry and Finance (MUIF)
Bachelor's degree
2012 - 2016
5 years