Mercedes Barrachina Fernandez, Ph.D.

Senior Managing Security Consultant - IBM

Mercedes Barrachina Fernandez, Ph.D. is a Senior Managing Consultant for IBM Security and has been in that role since 2018. She has led projects in many different countries, including the UAE, Japan, Russia and Peru. Mercedes has management and hands-on experience implementing multiple SAP solutions, such as SAP GRC, SAP Audit Management, SAP Fraud Management, SAP ETD and more. She works with multiple customers in the security space, sharing her experiences and expertise.

Healthcare September 18, 2024

Cybersecurity risks in healthcare are an ongoing crisis

4 min read - While healthcare providers have been implementing technical, administrative and physical safeguards related to patient information, they have not been as diligent in securing their medical devices. These devices are critical to patient care and can leave hospitals at risk for…

Risk Management May 31, 2023

Machine learning applications in the cybersecurity space

3 min read - Machine learning is one of the hottest areas in data science. This subset of artificial intelligence allows a system to learn from data and make accurate predictions, identify anomalies or make recommendations using different techniques. Machine learning techniques extract information…

Application Security November 30, 2022

Securing your SAP environments: Going beyond access control

3 min read - Many large businesses run SAP to manage their business operations and their customer relations. Security has become an increasingly critical priority due to the ongoing digitalization of society and the new opportunities that attackers exploit to achieve a system breach.…

Security Services July 5, 2022

How to secure your SAP environment

3 min read - The protection of the SAP systems, as mission-critical applications, is becoming the priority for the most relevant organizations all over the world. The security hardening of SAP systems is key in these uncertain times, where threat actors start seeing SAP…

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Mercedes Barrachina Fernandez, Ph.D.

Cybersecurity risks in healthcare are an ongoing crisis

Machine learning applications in the cybersecurity space

Securing your SAP environments: Going beyond access control

How to secure your SAP environment

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