About me
Hi there!
My name is Vincent Verhagen.
Being security and privacy conscious, there’s not much personal detail about me I feel I should share with you 
You may find more info about my business life on LinkedIn: 
For the curious: I’m male, was born in 1967 and live in The Netherlands. I speak Dutch, English, passable German, some French and some Swedish.
Business wise, I am the founder and owner of VIVE Internet Diensten. Our main product is spam filtering, which we offer as a managed service. Have a look here: www.ArgusSafeMail.nl (Dutch only).
Besides being a business owner, I’m part time employed by Simac ICT Netherlands as an IT Consultant, with an emphasis on information security. To support that, I hold the (ISC)2 CISSP certification.
Trying to help newcomers in IT to do things right the first time, I am a guest lecturer on information security related topics at colleges and universities.
I’ve held several jobs in the world of IT and have been in this business for over 20 years.
Back then I would have been called a nerd, but that word wasn’t in fashion in those days
These days I am a generalist with a highly developed technical insight and a special focus on privacy and security related matters. You’ll probably see that reflected in many of my posts.
My current relevant certifications are CISSP, MCSE NT4.0/2000/2003 +Security, ITIL, PRINCE2.
Past certifications include CCNP and CCDP.
I’m currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Business Informatics (a discipline combining information technology (IT) (or “informatics”) with management concepts).
I have working experience with designing and maintaining the recent Microsoft operating systems and some Linux distributions, mainly Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 (and CentOS of course).
Please check out my for more detail.
