Johnathan Nicholson

About Johnathan Nicholson

Cybersecurity and Software Engineering leader with 20 years of international experience. Passionate about Security, Engineering, DevOps, Agile, Start-ups and collaborating with highly motivated people.I believe in servant leadership and at my core, I value honesty, trust, transparency, respect and ownership as key driving factors for my leadership style.As Chief Information Security Officer at Interac I led the security transformation, platform engineering and championed Agile and Devops ways of working. Led all mobile application development, engineering, security and operational delivery for Barclays Africa | Absa (Digital), reporting into the CIO for Digital Tech.Built and enabled the Cybersecurity capability, operating and testing models within Digital for Barclays Africa and creating the Mobile development capability from the ground up, delivering in cross-functional Product teams of more than 100 team members, utilizing DevOps and Agile methodologies. Global delivery teams across USA, South Africa, United Kingdom, Lithuania and India.

Experience

1. Manager, Solutions Consulting, Enterprise

   Palo Alto Networks

   Jun 2024 — Present · TN, US

Education

• Harvard Extension School

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

  2019 — 2025

• Harvard Extension School

  Degree candidate, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies

  2017 — 2019

• Duke University

  Advanced Leadership Program, Organizational Leadership

  2016 — 2017

• (ISC)² Information Technology and Services

  Certified Informations Systems Security Professional, Cyber Security | Information Systems Security

  2007 — 2024

• Offensive Security

  OSCP: Offensive Security Certified Professional, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

  2023 — 2024

Skills

• Security Audits
• Risk
• Risk Management
• Compliance
• Banking
• Consultancy
• Cissp
• Information Security Management
• Security
• Risk Assessment
• Iso 27001
• Network Security
• Information Security
• IT Audit
• Application Security
• Information Technology
• Security Policy
• Computer Security
• Pki
• Web Application Security
• Data Security
• Ids
• Checkpoint
• Firewalls
• Encryption
• Security Management
• Vulnerability Management
• Vulnerability Assessment
• Pci Dss
• Financial Risk
• Cism
• Ips
• Security Architecture Design
• Cryptography
• Infrastructure
• Network Architecture
• Solution Architecture
• Antivirus
• Infrastructure Security
• Security Awareness