Thom Langford Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Chippenham, Wiltshire, Gb

Cybersecurity consulting services providing strategic and visionary consulting to organisations looking to enhance or build their security capabilities in-house. * Virtual CISO and CISO support services. * Strategic security programme support and guidance. * Cybersecurity consultancy services * Certification support and consulting services (e.g. ISO27001, Cyber Essentials). * Brand advocacy, public speaking and marketing activities for clients and events.

Sole founder of Host Unknown, a group that brings levity to the information security world through film music, shows, podcasts and live appearances.Find out more about what we do at http://hostunknown.tv and on Twitter at @HostUnknownTV.

Ashburn, Virginia, Us

London, Gb

CISO at Velonetic, the joint venture between DXC Technology, the International Underwriting Association (IUA), and Lloyd’s of London. Previously referred to as the London Market Joint Ventures, Velonetic processes over £101 billion worth of premium and claims transactions annually.Accountable for the security of the current and future technology platform, representing and balancing the interests of both the various market associations as well as Velonetic itself, working closely with our technology providers, DXC Technology.

Reading, West Berkshire, Gb

Mountain View, California, Us

Acting as the face of the company at public-facing events and delivering thought leadership in support of sales and marketing activities in an educational and entertaining manner.ResponsibilitiesCreation of strategic thought-leadership content on a regular basis for public speaking engagements across international markets, focussing on strategic and executive targets.Delivery of unique thought-provoking and sales-free content for Keynotes, webinars, and panels on a wide range of information security topics aimed at security executives and other C-Level personnel.Rapid response to PR and media requests on breaking stories and topical content.Moderation of roundtables and panels on a variety of cybersecurity topics.Established and facilitated a non-commercial CISO and leadership forum, the SentinelOne50. * Invitation only monthly gathering of senior executives and security officers * An open environment for the discussion and sharing of cybersecurity challenges for customers, potential customers and non-customers alike. (Chatham House rules.) * Independent research gathered through informal networking opportunities was presented and discussed.

London, Gb

Pro bono Information Security Advisor to Comic Relief’s Head of IT & Facilities

Paris, Ile De France, Fr

Following the acquisition of Sapient Corporation by Publicis Groupe, appointed as Groupe’s first Chief Information Security Officer for Groupe and all of its agencies.Achievements * Established Publicis Groupe’s first global security group, consolidating various uncoordinated functions into a single, cohesive team delivering security services across all aspects of internal functions, client delivery and Groupe governance. * Reviewed and completed the overhaul of Groupe Information Security policies, and the main contributor to Groupe’s privacy policies launched in 2016. * Introduced global vulnerability assessment and management procedures. * Created and tested people safety and incident management procedures. * Built and tested Groupe’s first truly global business continuity framework. * Expanded and centralised ISO27001 certification across multiple locations. * Created Groupe’s first information security risk dashboard, produced quarterly. * Identified key security risks and expanded the security team dramatically in the first eighteen months to meet the business demands.Responsibilities> Cyber Security* Security testing, penetration testing & vulnerability assessment of internal, agency and client environments. * Security review of internal, agency and client technology architecture. * Security consulting services for agencies and clients.> Enterprise Security * Security policy and compliance across Publicis Groupe. * Standards and certification of Groups and agency environments. * Global training and awareness activities. * Security incident and response capabilities. * Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. * Security risk management.> Governance * Regular reporting to senior leadership and Groupe Directoire. * Chair of the Information Security Steering Committee working alongside stakeholders from across all lines of business representing all regions.

Boston, Ma, Us

(Since February 2008) Established the company's first global security organisation, and subsequently now head of the Global Security Office, Sapient's information security team. Collaborating with multiple stakeholders in the organisation, including the Chief Information Officer, Chief Operations and Administration Officer, General Counsel, Board of Directors Risk Committee and the Global Delivery Organisation of Sapient. The primary goals of the team are consolidating and coordination of the following activities: * Information security through ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of company information assets * Physical security, ensuring the physical safety of people and property * Incident management, covering disaster recovery, business continuity and crisis management * Audit and accreditation, including ISO 27001:2005 certification, MA 201 CMR 17, HIPAA, MA 201, DPA and other legal compliance requirements * Risk assessment and business impact analysis * Training, awareness and change management activities to improve security while retaining creativity and flexibility in the organisation

Boston, Ma, Us

IT Global Services Lead, responsible for two teams across three geographies,12 offices and 70+staff with 7 direct reports. There are additionally some 5-10 other project offices without a local presence that the team is responsible to support. The Local Support team is accountable for all elements of IT from the desk ‘forward’, comprising of laptop and desktop support (hardware and software), Helpdesk management to a defined set of SLA’s, capital IT purchases and all local IT queries and support. Office Services ranges from front of house reception support through office and space management and to traditional facilities management including landlord and subtenant management, access control and security, corporate accommodation and transport services (India). The core vision of the group is to provide the best end to end personal support experience in conjunction with the Strategic Context of the company whilst at the same time ensuring industry standards are being addressed. Other projects while in this role have included the facilitation and direction of the London, Bangalore and Gurgaon office relocations, the latter being cited as the largest single company move in North India; all moves included the coordination of all IT and FM services. Sarbanes Oxley controls have been present throughout, ensuring a significantly higher level of quality and accountability across the organisation, and currently working on introducing relevant ITIL concepts and procedures into the group.

Responsibilities included the infrastructure, operational, access control and security of the building (liaising with local Police Force and security companies.) This role also extended to the design and initial support of the IT architecture in the firms Retail Solutions Centre (also housed in Swindon), and the full implementation of the IT architecture in the New World Solutions Centre in Heathrow (both sites were client showcases). This last site was a greenfield site, with an implementation window of ten weeks, including the management of all wet and dry trades, through to completion of network (wireless and traditional), server and desktop provisioning. A team was also then selected to manage and support this new environment. Tertiary roles within this organisation included client work as required (normally troubleshooting) and advisement of IT architecture and web based infrastructures to Project Managers and client teams upon request.

Gb

Roles included the Project Management of an extensive refurbishment and technology refresh of the re-branded 27° North Technology Solutions Centre in Heathrow, the implementation of an ongoing Mobile IP showcase, and the Technical Architect for an internal project delivery centre. Final role was located in Swansea as Technical Operations Manager to analyse, design, implement and manage an Innovations Centre for a large Government Agency.

Technical support, installation and management of Autodesk products including field service support.

Vax VMS operational support in a 24 hour shift environment. Support included the management of client batch jobs, telephone support and the creation of overnight printed reports to rigid deadlines.

Ba (Hons), Industrial Relations (Personnel Management) With Computing

"O" Levels & "A" Levels