About

Reza Taghawi, MSc.

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I started where the internet was still hand-wired: running network operations centers for early Austrian providers, designing backbones, building the networks everything else depended on. Two decades and a few thousand incidents later, the through-line of my work hasn’t changed — keeping critical operations running, whatever the decade throws at them.

Today I manage the group SOC at twinformatics, the IT provider of Vienna Insurance Group — after years of leading datacenter services and building up the security operations team there. Before that: infrastructure and network security across manufacturing and consulting, from Semperit to NextiraOne. Since 2021 I also teach at FH Technikum Wien as a lecturer for IT infrastructure, security and offensive cyber security.

r-sec is my personal site — not a company, not a service. It’s where I think out loud about the three things I keep coming back to: security operations that survive real incidents, AI that actually takes work off people’s plates, and infrastructure that is boring in the best possible way.

If any of that resonates, my inbox is open: reza@r-sec.com · LinkedIn