Stephen Hart

Lead Security Architect @Pay.UK

London, GB
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WORK HISTORY

Jan 2025 — Present

Lead Security Architect @Pay.UK

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Lead Security Architect at Pay.UK, responsible for shaping and delivering enterprise-wide security architecture to protect the UK’s retail payments infrastructure. Focused on building resilient, scalable, and compliant security solutions that underpin the nation’s payment systems.I thrive in bridging technical teams, senior leadership and business stakeholders—ensuring that security is an enabler of innovation, not a barrier. My mission at Pay.UK is to embed “security by design” into the national retail payments backbone, enabling safe, scalable growth while protecting trust.

EDUCATION

2016 — 2017

University of Southampton

MSc Cyber Security, Cyber Security

1995 — 2000

The Open University

BSc, Management and IT

2005 — 2009

The Open University

MSc, Development Management

N/A

University of Southampton

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cyber Security

1976 — 1978

Highlands College Jersey

Diploma, Hotel Management

SKILLS

Performance ManagementItilOutsourcingVoipData CenterBudgetsDocument ManagementStakeholder ManagementNetworkingIT Service ManagementChange ManagementCyberManagementRequirements AnalysisIT StrategyGovernancePrince2Business TransformationProject ManagementService DeliveryBusiness AnalysisNegotiationIT ManagementPublic SectorSharepointProject DeliveryCyber-Security

ABOUT STEPHEN HART

Experienced senior information and cyber security professional who shapes and delivers strategic visions underpinning national IT Information security, which dramatically transforms corporate landscapes, including eradicating IT vulnerabilities. Champions change and process re-engineering envisions innovative solutions to complex problems, uses the latest tools & technologies within the IT & cyber security arena, and generates business cases for presentation to C-Level stakeholders for radical programmes. A true advocate for safeguarding business-critical systems, networks and infrastructures, evaluates vulnerabilities and devises short, medium and long-term strategies for deploying information security technologies involving consolidating data centres, secure web hosting and ITIL-based service delivery. I have an interest in cyber security awareness and education. As part of my PhD, I have created a security card game called Riskio to teach cyber security attacks and defences. The game was presented and played at the 2018 NCSC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR) conference with NCSC staff and delegates. I have also created another game to teach IC hardware supply chain technical vulnerabilities. This game is a single-player online game for students. I am interested in the following research areas: Gamification to teach cyber security to technical staff, operational staff, and C-level executives; Games created to teach cyber security and privacy issues relating to Big Data; Machine Learning; and IoT.

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