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Brian W

I help organisations protect their most valuable asset ‘data’, by delivering cybersecurity strategies and solutions that are practical, resilient, and commercially relevant.

Jurisdiction

United Kingdom

Notable Employer

  • Global Director at Boston Consulting Group

Experience

Seniority LevelDirector
Years of Experience20+ years
Current StatusActive
Global DirectorNotable
2020 - 2024

Leading Information Protection services for BCG’s Security Engineering, Infrastructure and Operations function. Ensuring the strategic direction, business needs and operations for securing BCG data, in over 50 countries worldwide, are met in an agile capacity. Highlights include: - Led a global data loss prevention migration to next-generation DLP, SASE and Zero Trust platforms, that boosted device performance whilst delivering annual savings - Built a cloud agnostic protection capability (CNAPP) that rapidly reduced vulnerabilities and compliance gaps, by leveraging auto-remediation, future proofing AI security and reducing operational overheads - Implemented the Secrets Management Standard and rollout of a centralised hybrid vault to secure secrets used by app dev teams globally, enabling DevSecOps and secure automation - deployed a comprehensive data protection framework that strengthened compliance globally, helping avoid multi-million-pounds in regulatory fines - established 24/7 Security Operations Centre (SOC) for key functions in Data and Cloud Protection, enabling round the clock support, releasing in-house engineers to focus on more complex tasks. This, alongside, building and leading high performing teams.

Education

Degree of BSc Computer Science with honoursUniversity of Hertfordshire
Present

Certification

Total Certifications1

PRINCE2 Foundation

Skills

Core skills0
Languages1

Languages

English