Geoff Jones Email & Phone Number

Gloucester, Gb

Cheltenham

Cyberis is an independent information security consultancy delivering coherent security, risk management and assurance through a unified range of services and solutions. We deliver trusted assurance and consulting by quality and excellence; we build trusted relationships and partnerships with our clients by integrity and honesty. We innovate to provide solutions to our client’s problems.

Security Consultant responsible for delivering all aspects of security consultancy and testing, ranging from pre-sales activities such as scoping and proposals, to the delivery of technical engagements and subsequent debriefs. Translates identified technical vulnerabilities into understandable business risks with remediation advice.

Developing security products and services for tomorrow's industry.

Member of the senior management team, and accountable for the development and management of IRM's network forensics capability. Conceived and managed the delivery of an entirely novel service line for IRM, incorporating the development of sales collateral and technical methodologies, taking the service line from an abstract idea to a concrete and profitable business line for the company. Responsibilities ongoing include the further development and management of this service line going… Show more Member of the senior management team, and accountable for the development and management of IRM's network forensics capability. Conceived and managed the delivery of an entirely novel service line for IRM, incorporating the development of sales collateral and technical methodologies, taking the service line from an abstract idea to a concrete and profitable business line for the company. Responsibilities ongoing include the further development and management of this service line going forward, increasing market share and profitability in line with business targets. Additional duties concern the management of a team of technical consultants, together with their utilisation and sales targets, ensuring the quality and profitability of individual client projects and effective resource management within a dynamic and fast-paced industry sector. Show less

Managing consultant responsible for the technical team meeting utilisation and sales targets, ensuring the quality and costing of the service, overseeing penetration testing engagements and ensuring appropriate resources are available to meet client requirements. Managed a team of 7 Senior Consultants across both London and Cheltenham offices, whilst project managing several long-termengagements and driving forward innovative research such as whitepapers, tools and external… Show more Managing consultant responsible for the technical team meeting utilisation and sales targets, ensuring the quality and costing of the service, overseeing penetration testing engagements and ensuring appropriate resources are available to meet client requirements. Managed a team of 7 Senior Consultants across both London and Cheltenham offices, whilst project managing several long-termengagements and driving forward innovative research such as whitepapers, tools and external presentations.High chargeable utilisation was maintained alongside management responsibilities, delivering more complex technical engagements within the company. Types of engagements include full security audits, infrastructure testing, application testing, wireless assessments and computer forensics across both public and private sectors.Forensic experience includes leading several QFI investigations as a result of PCI DSS breaches, with in-depth experience of ACPO forensic procedures.Successfully launched NetFACTS, a new managed data capture and analysis service, offering a full assessment of current network activities, specifically looking for policy violations, intrusions and network configuration issues. Show less

Experience leading CESG's Emerging Threats team, tracking sophisticated network based attacks. Relevant qualifications and extensive experience was gained of the exploits and network penetration techniques used in the wild, allowing new threats to be detected and appropriate defences to be established. Role involved working closely with other central government departments and successfully managing the team and individuals within.

On-call Incident Handler for IT security incidents reported from central government departments. Authority and responsibility to handle business critical decisions out-of-hours. Personally led the analysis and response to several high profile incidents reported in the media.Senior analyst leading CESG’s network monitoring capability; a large-scale distributed intrusion detection system. Developed new analysis tools and innovative IDS signatures to detect new attack techniques. Trained… Show more On-call Incident Handler for IT security incidents reported from central government departments. Authority and responsibility to handle business critical decisions out-of-hours. Personally led the analysis and response to several high profile incidents reported in the media.Senior analyst leading CESG’s network monitoring capability; a large-scale distributed intrusion detection system. Developed new analysis tools and innovative IDS signatures to detect new attack techniques. Trained other military and government departments to write operational signatures andconduct effective incident management. IDS architect consultant to MoD.Lead role in developing a malware analysis capability within GovCertUK. Technical expert of common network protocols. Show less

Placement student based in Hursley. Business Integration – Responsibility of implementing and maintaining an ‘automation framework’, running daily functional verification tests of the WebSphere platform. Primarily Java based, with experience of the AIX Operating System.WebSphere Messaging Development – Development role creating suitable demonstration applications for the new Messaging bus. Experience developing Enterprise Java applications.

Bsc, Software Engineering

Activities and Societies: Senior Resident Bramall Court First Class Honours Degree

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