Our InfoSec Teams

Paysafe's information security is among the highest of our priorities and in order to keep our organization safe, we have built a strong team of specialists experting in various security methods and controls. Our Bulgarian site hosts a large part of the InfoSec organization - around 50 team members are working tirelessly to ensure all our security components are up and running. Learn more about the different functions and the amazing people that work here!

Enterprise Security Architecture

The ESA team provides higher-level abstraction of technical and business design that identifies and describes where and how security controls should be deployed and in what operating style to counter the most likely threats while considering business drivers e.g., cost, ambition, regulatory, legal constraints, and business strategy.

Business Security Architecture

The team provides consulting services to the Business with regards to all information security significant business projects, works with the Business to ensure all new products and features have the right balance of security and usability. They are responsible for threat modelling of Paysafe’s environments and prioritizing control implementation in accordance with risk.

Cyber Defense Architecture

The Cyber Defense Architecture team are responsible for designing and implementing security controls throughout all of Paysafe’s infrastructure and making sure that DevSecOps is part of everything we do.

Corporate Information Security

The Corporate Information Security team provides Security Consultancy services to the non-revenue generating elements of the Paysafe business e.g., HR, Finance, Legal etc, and provides Identity Access Management 2nd line governance and assurance capabilities (including identity engineering).

Identity and Access Management

The IAM team are providing automated Joiners/Movers/Leavers service which brings more fluent experience for the new joiners onboarding, more security during transfers and leavers and making sure that the people have just the right access and nothing less or more. In addition, they are providing comprehensive security for all privileged accounts for the most critical systems and devices in the company.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

The GRC team are responsible for the identification, classification and addressing of cybersecurity risk associated with organizational activities; for ensuring that organizational activities support the organization's business goals and are responsible for maintaining compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements.

Security Operations Center

The SOC team are engaged with analyzing Paysafe’s cyber security threat detection and prevention systems to identify early triggers of suspicious activity using a combination of high-tech cybersecurity solutions and a strong set of processes.

Cyber Threat Management

The Cyber Threat Management team proactively monitors our cyber threat landscape, profiling adversaries to understand their exact method of doing things, so that intelligence-led decisions can be made about threat hunting, detection, and controls.

Business Continuity & Insider Threat

The Business Continuity & Insider Threat team helps the organization rapidly adapt and respond to all types of risks, like natural disasters, cyber-attacks, supply chain disruptions, denial of access, technology failures, while collaborating with all divisions of the Group.

Meet our Leaders

Radina Dimitrova, Senior Director Business Security

“Our team shares the strong belief that security should be a product feature and the best products have the perfect balance between security and usability.”
Ishtihaq Hussain, Senior Director Cyber Defence & Assurance

"Growth of Paysafe is underpinned by secure applications which makes being part of the application security team both challenging and exciting."
Radoslav Tsvetkov, Director Cyber Defence Centre

“The high-tech environment that the team works in provokes them to be constantly developing, learning new skills and driving Paysafe's cyber defence to the next level.”

Meet the team

Martin Kirilov, Security Operations Center Analyst Level 2

"In Infosec you need to constantly adapt and make sure you are up to-date, the challenges are constantly changing as we need to guarantee the company’s security posture."

Atanas Radev, Cyber Developer

"I’ve joined the infosec family nearly 4 years ago when I started as a junior SOC analyst. When I moved into the SOC Level 2 position, I had the opportunity to improvise and automate some things to ease my day-to-day activities. That’s how I developed an interest in the Cyber developer role and here I am."

Tsveta Petkova, IT Operational Resiliency Manager

"My main responsibilities are making sure our product platforms across the group have resilience arrangements to meet the needs of our business and the requirements of our partners and regulators, evaluating and minimizing risk and ensuring compliance. I am never stuck in a routine. Being heard combined with the dedication and commitment of the people I work with inspires me a lot."

Borislav Yaninski, IT & Infosec Assurance Lead

"Paysafe’s variety of payment methods and services keeps the work interesting and there is always much to learn. I am happy to work with highly experienced professionals and collaborate with them to achieve our final goals of protecting Paysafe’s customers and systems."

Learning and Development

Knowledgeable and striving for professional and personal development employees are highly appreciated in our company. They are supported through internal trainings prepared by our specialists following the best guidelines on the market. In addition, external trainings are also available if the employee progression requires it.

The trainings include various certification possibilities and platforms like SANS, CompTIA, ISACA, Vendor specific trainings, Immersive Labs, Pluralsight, O’Reilly and LinkedIn Learning.