Evans Anku

Snr Cyber Security Risk Analyst @Pearson

London, GB

Coordinates and supports information security projects to manage risks, drive risk aware culture across projects, processes, and procedures across the organisation. Participates in the selection of consultants to conduct outside risk assessments and/or pen tests. Reviews third parties’ selection, onboarding, and risk management activities. Maintains detailed and accurate cybersecurity risk profile of the organisation for risk-based decisions.• Ensuring strong and strategic relationships exist between the Cyber Security team and key stakeholders.• Ensuring that risk owners, have access to appropriate and reliable cyber security advice, enabling them to make informed decisions to support the objective of mitigating cyber security risk.• Ensuring that cyber security risks introduced by projects and change activity are identified and captured. Supporting risk owners to manage these throughout the project lifecycle.• Supporting risk owners in ensuring that cyber security controls are identified and implemented, in line with the standards set, for new technology solutions, both those internally developed and those procured from our supply chain.• Manage third party/vendors risk assessment, Request For Proposals, Proof of Concepts, due diligence and continuous reviews.• Oversaw the external third-party business continuity program as the subject matter expect on business continuity.