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Scotland

Global

• Group Information Security Manager providing strategic framework direction and implementation for global businesses operating over 3 continents with 45,000 employees.
• Significant Board and senior executive level stakeholder engagement.
• Development and deployment of information security framework from scratch.
• Successful certification to ISO27001, Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essential Plus schemes and NCSC CISP enrolment.
• Development of mandatory bespoke security and awareness training for all staff and suppliers.
• Devised an information security risk management structure to streamline risk identification, analysis and mitigation controls incorporating follow the sun SIEM solutions.

UK

• Provision of strategic level fraud management, information, personnel, physical and cyber security direction for Senior Management Team acting as the company subject matter expert.
• Security and Fraud Manager responsible for devising and continuously developing company policy, incorporating MOD requirements, to all direct and indirect employed staff.
• Design and delivery of robust training packages covering Security, Fraud, Bribery, Corruption, Business Continuity and Information Assurance.
• Design, implementation and exercising of a formalised Business Continuity Plan covering 82 establishments to ISO22301 standard.
• Identified and lead investigations into security, fraud or information assurance incidents maintaining close working relationships with multiple external agencies.
• Provision of subject matter expert bid documents for fraud, security, bribery, corruption and information assurance elements for 5 successful MOD contract submissions.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Cyber security technologies and baseline controls manager.
• Development and implementation of cyber control measures across the banking group.
• Compliance assessment of controls providing security gaps analysis.
• Introduced vulnerabilities into the Risk Assessment framework for analysis.