Alex Blood
Associate Director, Technology Engineering @NCC Group
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WORK HISTORY
Associate Director, Technology Engineering @NCC Group
Enabling the delivery of our Managed Services Portfolio.
EDUCATION
University of Liverpool
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science
SKILLS
ABOUT ALEX BLOOD
A strong background and over 15 years experience in identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities, practical understanding of offensive security assessments and responding to security incidents. Experienced understanding of performing offensive assessments and interpreting results to identify vulnerabilities in systems, applications, and network infrastructure. Collaborate with various security teams to improve overall security posture based on offensive findings. Effectively communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and C-level audiences to ensure that the content is clear, concise, and tailored to the audience\'s level of technical understanding.Vulnerability Management: • Implement and manage a comprehensive vulnerability management program. • Classifying and prioritising vulnerabilities based on risk and potential impact. • Contextualise vulnerabilities to provide real risk outcomes • Collaborate with teams, to build out an efficient and effective platform to serve both internal NCC Group Teams and solve customer problems, driving timely remediation of identified vulnerabilities. Tool Management: • Bring expertise of managing security and vulnerability management tools, examples such as, InsightVM, Tenable.io, Qualys, Tanium for vulnerability scanning and patch management. • Evaluate and implement new tools and technologies to enhance cybersecurity capabilities. Cloud Technologies:• Understanding of cloud fundamentals and technologies within GCP, AWS and Azure Risk Assessment: • Assess real customer risks and analyse potential attack paths. • Map exploits to incident prioritisation, considering the criticality of assets and potential impact. • Develop methodologies in which contextual data can be gathered to improve risk prioritisation to customers. Functional and technical skills: • Experience in exploit mapping and incident prioritisation. • Ability to adapt to evolving cybersecurity threats and technologies. • Pragmatic and methodical approach to problem solving. • North star thinking and planning. • Innovative approach to problem solving. • Operational and budget considerations. Other Skills:• Application Development including Java, C#.Net and Python• Database technologies, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL• Web Server technologies, Apache, IIS, Tomcat and Load balancers such as HAProxy and NGINX• Risk Assessment, GAP Analysis, Business Continuity Planning including disaster recovery and IS Policies
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