Christopher Hawksworth Email & Phone Number

Wellington, New Zealand

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

A little bit of everything in the security space ranging from security operations to helping embed foundational components such as processes and governance. Other neat stuff has been to continue to develop and uplift ESR M365 security capabilities, mature and improve risk assessments and lastly but not least evolve the cyber detection and response areas.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

New Zealand

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

New Zealand

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• In a multifaceted environment, I provide key strategic security advice to develop and enhance the security portfolio within Fujitsu across Oceania as well as contribute valuable information technology and security.
• Service catalog creation
• Cost modeling of new services
• Customer audits both technically and framework based
• SIEM deployments and consultation
• Develop and mature customer security strategies

A VPN solution that actually gave users unique certificates so that privacy and security was guaranteed. After raising the bar in the VPN industry and using a clean and simple client interface the business grew to over 1000 customers. It started as a back room hobby and then became a source of income whilst travelling. It was a refreshing new role for me.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Initially ING Direct local security officer and then progressed to an overarching role for the support and creation of policies, procedures, and projects within the scope of IT security and security audits to ING.
• Represent ING Group or ING Direct towards relevant external parties (peers in other banks, regulators, IT industry peers, and academic researchers) for architectural topics,
• Guide ING Direct business units on complex or out-of-control projects,
• Initiate and lead market and vendor studies,
• Defined and developed architectural projects,
• Advise general management and board members on issues.

Oslo Area, Norway

Main tasks involved creating demand for services and products that were specifically security orientated to fit existing and new customers Microsoft architecture. In house training and workshops for account managers and sales helped to drive a business case to customers.

Installation, support and pre sales of RSA, Ironports, Checkpoints, Symantec firewalls / AV, F5 and winmagic.

Oslo Area, Norway

Installation support and council for goverment and financial institutions for checkpoint, Trend Micro and Winmagic