Conal D.

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT CONAL D.

I have over twenty years experience in the I.T. sector for FTSE quoted employers with the last ten specialising in the Information Security and Assurance field.I hold Information Security certifications from the British Computer Society,(ISC)2 and SANS, including the CISSP and GSEC certifications. I am a GIAC Advisory Board member and have been an invited presenter at conferences in both Europe and North America. My personal goals are to broaden and deepen my management, consulting, business and technical skills while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.Specialties: Working across the full spectrum of information risk challenges and security domains to find solutions that enable progression and delivery of IT programmes and projects for globally established complex businesses in the travel and leisure sectors allowing them to use IT as a differentiator. Creating information security strategies, policies and standards appropriate for the business given the business and IT strategies. Helping senior management understand current information risk profiles and remediation options to achieve the risk tolerance levels they decide upon. Identifying legislative or other drivers for new or updated security policies and control implementation.Network vulnerability scanning. Platform security evaluation. Active Directory security evaluation and policy testing. Project risk assessments. Security metrics generation.