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Overview
I am a professional in the CyberSecurity industry, currently working as a SOC Manager, with responsability for leading and managing all aspects of Blue Team operations, with teams in security analysis, security engineering, threat hunting, incident response and cyber threat intelligence.
I also work as in a Consultant role in Cyber Capacity Building, working and advising on how blue teams can be built/improved/made more effective, and helping with tool selection.
Currently I am persuring a PhD in Cyber Security to hopefully provide a framework I feel is required from that experience.
Research
Thesis
Determining the Ideal Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC) for each Organisation: An Impartial Analysis of Various CSOC Models
Biography
My current role is working as a SOC Manager responsable for leading and managing an MDR service for a range of end clients, ranging from; small bespoke highly targeted NGOs, to large enterprises to Governmental Departments.
Additionally I help consult within cyber capacity building at managerial level helping end clients make the best of the situation that they are in.
Before this I was a SOC lead responsable for leading two teams covering EMEA for a large SaaS. With the teams being Web Application Firewalls and Enterprise, working as an escaltion point for them and providing development and managerial support.
Pior to this I was an analyst and then a queue manager responsible for ensuring alerts and challenges within the SaaS were effectively and correctly prioritised and assigned to members of the team for investigation.
Before this, I worked as an IT Support Engineer for a MSP, developing an interest in security. Prior to this, I have experence leading and managing around 250 members of staff within a logistics environment.
