Head of Compliance - Skype
Luxembourg
- Current
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- Head of Compliance at Skype Communications S.a.r.l. (eBay Inc.)
- Past
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- Head of Compliance at Skype
- Director - Security & Privacy - Technology Assurance & Advisory at Deloitte & Touche LLP
- Security Programme Manager (Secondment from Deloitte) at NHS Connecting for Health
- President at ISSA UK
- Director, Security Consulting Practice at Capgemini UK Plc.
- CTO at netSurity Ltd.
- Departmental Security Officer at Competition Commission
- Security and Infrastructure Director at Scient Inc.
- CTO at Orthus
- Head of Information Security at Nomura International Plc.
- Instructor at Sun Microsystems Ltd
- Principal Consultant at Zergo
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Phil Cracknell’s Summary
Phil is regarded as one of the Europe's leading information security and compliance 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 CISO for Japanese investment banking giant Nomura.
• He is an active member of a number of European 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.
Phil Cracknell’s Specialties:
Risk Management, Security Audit, Penetration Testing, Encryption, BS7799 gap analysis, wireless security, firewall design, security management.
Phil Cracknell’s Experience
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Head of Compliance
Skype Communications S.a.r.l. (eBay Inc.)
(Public Company; EBAY; Internet industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year)
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Head of Compliance
Skype
(Public Company; EBAY; Internet industry)
August 2008 — August 2008 (1 month)
Global responsibility for legislative and regulatory compliance at Skype
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Director - Security & Privacy - Technology Assurance & Advisory
Deloitte & Touche LLP
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)
October 2006 — May 2008 (1 year 8 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.
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Security Programme Manager (Secondment from Deloitte)
NHS Connecting for Health
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2007 — 2008 (1 year)
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President
ISSA UK
(Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Security and Investigations industry)
September 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 1 month)
UK President (2006-7)
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Director, Security Consulting Practice
Capgemini UK Plc.
(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.
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CTO
netSurity Ltd.
(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.
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Departmental Security Officer
Competition Commission
(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Government Administration industry)
March 2003 — August 2005 (2 years 6 months)
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Security and Infrastructure Director
Scient Inc.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 2 months)
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CTO
Orthus
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2001 — 2001 (less than a year)
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Head of Information Security
Nomura International Plc.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Investment Banking industry)
August 1998 — May 2000 (1 year 10 months)
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Instructor
Sun Microsystems Ltd
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1993 — 1997 (4 years)
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Principal Consultant
Zergo
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1996 — 1997 (1 year)
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Phil Cracknell’s Interests:
Snowboarding, Gym, Travel, Boats
Phil Cracknell’s Honors:
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)
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