Daniel Ferguson Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, Gb

Responsible for BT's enterprise security architecture, and overarching capability roadmaps/strategy.

London, Gb

Leading a fantastic team of experts, working together to protect BT/EE/Plusnet from cyber attack. Ownership of technologies including DDoS, SIEM, IPS, WAF, NDR, EDR, DNS protection. Responsible for solution architecture, design, build, run, and operations.

London , Gb

• Leading a team of permanent and contractor resource delivering, developing and maintaining cyber security technologies/projects/programmes into Security Operations for the largest UK Telco and a leader in 4G.• Ownership of all security technologies and toolset architecture across the IT, Website and Telecommunications domains, including strategies, roadmaps and significant budgets (CAPEX and OPEX), mitigating EE’s risk profile. • Providing the 3rd line Security Operations function for incident analysis/remediation.• Vendor management and procurement activities (including pricing negotiations).• Research into emerging security threats, feeding into risk profiles, budget planning, toolset/operational strategies and roadmaps. Representing security in pursuit of budgets. Representing security at government meetings.

London , Gb

• Principal consultant for the Security Engineering and Architecture team (more information above).• Initiated and delivered projects in Denial of Service detection/mitigation, cloud platform protection, and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM).• Developed and owned a new, multi-year security programme across the mobile telecommunications estate, from the ground up, achieving significant budget allocations.

London , Gb

• Managed the office of the CTO, and the Technical Committee (a Board level advisory group and top level funding approver).• Ensured communication and co-ordination between the VP, his team of 8 Directors, and his function of ~800 staff.• Monitored operational and cost centre expenditure.• Acted as the voice of the CTO, and ensured his wishes an strategies were followed when he was not present.

London , Gb

• 24/7 ITIL support of Solaris/Linux infrastructure and Erlang applications, for (amongst others) mobile internet authentication, MMS billing, prepay voice calling (Intelligent Network), and customer services IVR/Call Routing.• Continual improvement of service performance, architecture, resilience, visibility and infrastructure monitoring.• Safe integration of new services and infrastructure into live environment.• Developed and introduced real-time monitoring capabilities from the ground up.

Network engineer.Heavily focused on the Cisco product range, including wireless, firewall, IDS, ACS, ethernet switch, router, and VPN technologies.Responsible for all network topology diagrams in Visio, and building diagrams showing network layouts in AutoCAD.Also had exposure to various windows server technologies.

Bsc, Computer Science With Networking

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