Sam Waggott Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

As a technical manager I currently have two key responsibilities.I currently manage a Data Loss Prevention team. My team's role is to provide DLP consultancy to IT projects within LBG, ensuring that any new services (or amendments to existing services) are securing the data that they house as per LBG security standards. Where gaps are found, we will.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

As a senior SIEM engineer I was responsible for the implementation of security monitoring for new IT projects. I managed a small team of engineers who, each time a new IT project was spun up, would assess the project for security monitoring applicability. If the project was found to be in scope, my team would then implement the necessary controls, as.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

As a SIEM engineer I was responsible for supporting the bank's SIEM toolset. This involved the implementation and maintenance of various data ingestion methods - API pulls, bash/python script pulls, syslog agents, etc. Much of this was configured via the RHEL based back-end rather than the application itself, so I garnered experience and proficiency both.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

In this role I gained both on-the-job experience and a formal education in cyber security principles. This was an 80/20 - 4 days in the week were spent working within the SIEM engineering team, with 1 day spent either in lectured courses or self-teaching.During the apprenticeship I completed several courses such as Security+, Network+ and Microsoft.