InfoSec and Forensic Consultant
Swindon, United Kingdom
InfoSec and Forensic Consultant
Swindon, United Kingdom
Experienced InfoSec consultant, CISSP, BS7799 Lead Auditor, OPSA.
General IT Security, UNIX, Firewalls, IDS & IPS, Single-Sign On, Technical Writing, Penetration Testing, Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus, Encryption, Open Source Security Tools, OSSTMM, BS7799 Auditing, SOx, Kerberos, Shibboleth, Forensics
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Services industry)
March 2005 — Present (3 years 8 months)
Produced assorted pieces of work for Microsoft through ContentMaster, including "Building Unix Security and Directory Solutions using LDAP, Kerberos & Windows Server 2003", "Converting UNIX Daemons to Windows Services using C#" and some testing work.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)
April 2002 — Present (6 years 7 months)
Senior Consultant and Owner of Thinking Security Ltd. (previously Computer Security Online Ltd.) an InfoSec company near Oxford in England.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; COMS; Computer Networking industry)
June 2008 — August 2008 (3 months)
Doing security test work on the next generation of 3COM appliances - Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, IDS/IPS and Firewall.
(Higher Education industry)
April 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 3 months)
Using Shibboleth to develop/implement a single sign on solution for the JISCMail Service.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)
December 2006 — March 2007 (4 months)
Ensuring Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for Vodafone UK with regard to OS, DB and Application patching.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)
November 2006 — December 2006 (2 months)
Linux consultant for government project.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2006 — November 2006 (4 months)
Kerberos Consultant for UK Government Highways Agency project. Designed and tested Kerberos authentication solution for emebeded traffic monitoring devices.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)
November 2005 — April 2006 (6 months)
UNIX Security Specialist working with ETrust and Keon.
(Computer & Network Security industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year)
(Computer & Network Security industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years)
(Computer & Network Security industry)
1997 — 2000 (3 years)
MSc, Forensic Computing, 2006 — 2009 (expected)
DipHE, Computer Science and Artifical Intelligence, 1996 — 2000
I studied, in addition to CompSci and AI, Company, Criminal and Contract Law, Electronics, Industrial Management, Oceanography and Geomorphology.
Computers, Land Rovers ...
BCS, CISSP, IISP, (ISC)2, ISECOM, F3