Jan Gennat

I'm a Senior Security Consultant based in Nordhordland, Norway, working at Orange Cyberdefense Norway. I moved here from Germany in August 2025, and I help organisations take their security posture seriously. Right now, my main focus is serving as the primary security advisor for a German ophthalmology group operating 140 clinics across Germany. That means working directly with executive and clinical leadership translating cyber risk into decisions that actually make sense at board level. Not just writing reports, but driving real change: closing audit findings, reducing incident response times, and building governance structures that hold up under pressure. Before that, I spent over a year in security operations managing a portfolio of 10 KRITIS-regulated clients financial services, energy utilities, healthcare covering everything from SIEM and EDR tuning to threat assessments and SOC team development. And before consulting, I spent six years as a security specialist in the Bundeswehr, holding VS-Geheim clearance (NATO SECRET equivalent), which gave me a very different perspective on what real security actually requires. What I bring to the table is the combination of hands-on operational depth and genuine advisory experience. I'm comfortable in a terminal, equally comfortable in a boardroom. I know how GDPR audits work in practice, how ISO/IEC 27001 findings get closed, and how to build detection logic that reflects actual attacker behaviour not just compliance checkboxes.