Bio

Professional manager with seventeen years Information Security experience, including eleven years managing Security Operations. Building out, defining Security Operations processes and procedures and running Security Incident response functions. CISSP of 13 years good standing. Built the Virgin Media SOC function and expanded to the wider Liberty Global organisation to ultimately cover 40,000 employees in 14 countries. Attend Executive level Security forums and engage with Privacy, Legal & Communications Core specialties • Security Operations Centre (SOC) build out and management. • Process analysis and documentation. • Security tools management (firewalls, IDS/IPS, anti-spam, endpoint, DLP). • Compliance system management and audit response. • Objective setting and performance reviews, skills analysis and training identification. • Managing Security Incident response process and capability. • Producing process documentation to meet operational and audit requirements. • Maintaining policy compliance. • Defining SIEM use cases, correlations and dashboards to meet business requirements to detect and investigate security incidents. • Defining repeatable processes and procedures for Security Incident Management. • Staff leadership, growth, development, objective setting and performance measurement. • Managing operational and administrative aspects of a 24/7 SOC. • Identifying security gaps and championing solutions. Key skills • Security Incident Management. • Motivating and developing people. • Defining roles, setting objectives and performance management. • Producing executive and operational reporting. • Maturing security capability. • Identifying security weaknesses in solutions and driving remediation. • Departmental growth planning. Identifying and creating roles to broaden and support SOC remit. • Communicating Security position to all levels of the business including MD level. • Process optimisation. • Representing Security Operations to external auditors.