FBCS, CISSP, MIRM
Sheffield, United Kingdom
FBCS, CISSP, MIRM
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Phil is regarded as one of the UK’s leading information security specialists. He has over 20 years experience gained in a variety of high-profile technical and managerial security roles.
• He has worked extensively in the field of penetration testing, audit, firewall design and management, implementation of ecommerce security and PKI deployment.
• From 1998-2000 Phil was the Global Head of Information Security for Japanese investment banking giant Nomura.
• He is an active member of a number of industry advisory panels.
• Was principal consultant heading the penetration testing practice of Zergo in 1997
• Writes regularly for industry press including Computer Weekly and Computing.
• Phil worked with UK government departments on the design, implementation and operations of a new connection to the government network and BS7799 compliance.
His publicity on the subject of wireless security have made Phil somewhat of a security celebrity with appearances on TV and in national press. He was responsible for the first published war-driving surveys in London, 2001 and has continued to revisit this each year on behalf of RSA Security.
A regular keynote speaker at National and International conferences, Phil offers a unique insight into the world of information security, hacking and risk management.
In 2006 Phil became the UK President of the ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) and sits on a number of committees and steering groups for ISO27001 user group, IISP, Eurim and IRM.
He was CTO of uk-based security product company NetSurity Ltd. and now remains a non-exec shareholder.
Risk Management, Security Audit, Penetration Testing, Encryption, BS7799 gap analysis, wireless security, firewall design, security management.
(Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)
October 2006 — Present (1 year 10 months)
With a practice of almost 100 UK-based security professionals, our Security and Privacy practice offers the usual big 4 high quality security consultancy with some unique elements including 15+ people in our SAP security group and 15+ in the Oracle security team. We are now Europe's largest independant security practice.
(Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Security and Investigations industry)
September 2006 — Present (1 year 11 months)
UK President
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2006 — August 2006 (6 months)
Responsible for service offering, practice management and high-level client delivery.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2003 — February 2006 (2 years 6 months)
Formed netSurity in Sept 2003. Innovative R&D security company. netSurity has produced three security products which were launched at InfoSec 2004 and 2005. Latest product suite is iQSM - an all encompassing risk management suite taking the market by storm with high profile early adopters. For details see - http://www.iqsm.co.uk.
http://www.netsurity.com - Corporate site
(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Government Administration industry)
March 2003 — August 2005 (2 years 6 months)
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 2 months)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2001 — 2001 (less than a year)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Investment Banking industry)
August 1998 — May 2000 (1 year 10 months)
Football - Sheffield Wednesday and Mansfield Town FC (Because my son plays for them!)
BCS Security Group
March 2001 - Passed CISSP exam. (CISSP)
July 2003 - Made a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS)
May 2005 - Member of the Institute of Risk Management (MIRM)