Alex Aronshteyn - Senior Security Consultant

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Mr. Aronshteyn is a knowledgeable Information Technology and Risk practitioner with more than a decade of real-world experience in technology infrastructure, disaster recovery, business continuity, IT audit, and risk analysis & control. Mr. Aronshteyn has worked with multiple enterprise- and medium-sized clients across numerous industries, and has broad knowledge across a variety of system platforms (HP, IBM, Sun, EMC), data center architecture designs, information replication techniques, and telecommunications & networking concepts, including; Frame Relay, ATM, MPLS, DNS, VPN and VoIP.

Mr. Aronshteyn began his professional career with AT&T, and specialized in pre- and post-sale support and implementation of complex AT&T managed services including: T1s, DS3s, OC3s, VPNs, Enterprise Hosting, Storage, Disaster Recovery and E-commerce infrastructures. While at AT&T, Mr. Aronshteyn developed a comprehensive understanding of TCP/IP networks, application development and support lifecycles, and infrastructure security technologies such as routers, switches, firewalls, and intrusion detection/prevention systems.

Following his tenure at AT&T, Mr. Aronshteyn spent three years at a Fortune 500 utility in the Midwest where he was involved in numerous strategic initiatives designed to identify and mitigate enterprise risk. While there, Mr. Aronshteyn successfully initiated and helped conduct an enterprise-wide Business Impact Analysis, managed risk assessment and solution design processes, and eventually coordinated the infrastructure build-out and test of a multi-site internal disaster recovery capability that was delivered on-time, within scope, and under budget.

Most recently, Mr. Aronshteyn served as the Disaster Recovery Manager at Cardinal Health, Inc. where he had overall management responsibility for all Cardinal Health disaster recovery planning efforts. At Cardinal Health, Mr. Aronshteyn successfully led a team of recovery professionals in the initiation, implementation and maintenance of numerous multi-million dollar recoverability solutions. This included, but was not limited to, technology recovery capabilities for ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, JDE), contingency plans for call centers, resumption plans for manufacturing plants, and crisis communications processes for international distribution channels – all based on business unit requirements.

Mr. Aronshteyn is a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) in good standing, and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology from The Ohio State University.



NEWS & EVENTS

January 2012 Customer Testimonial
"Anyone can come in and point to where the problem is, but N&ST was part of the team and worked just like we did. They were working consultants which is exactly what a small to medium size utility needs." - Responsible Entity in the SERC region
February 2012 Customer Testimonial
"I have never seen our technical staff actually ask for the same consultants again and again!" - Responsible Entity in the SPP region
4/19/2012 - FERC approves Version 4 of the NERC CIP Standards
As many of you are aware, CIP Version 4 was on this morning’s agenda at FERC’s public meeting.  This morning, FERC approved agenda item E-6 without comment.  For your information, HERE is the item from FERC’s meeting summary.
March 2012 Customer Testimonial
"N&ST never sat around waiting for us to tell them what to do and came to us when they had questions, but never overburdened us. We are looking forward to working with them again in the future!" - Responsible Entity in the ERCOT region