Mike Boutwell

Giving Practical guidance to help aspiring cyber professionals start a lucrative career in cybersecurity.

➤ Serving in the capacity of a CISO to deliver key security related business strategy
➤ Presented security management reports to C-Level and auditors to address findings and close gaps. 
➤ Defined security requirements for customer systems and implemented security policies and SOPs.
➤ Developed company wide security requirements and selected third party tools aligned to needs.
➤ Led hackathons creating opportunities for software development teams to collaborate on projects. 
➤ Networked and stakeholder management to secure new business opportunities and win contracts.

Key Achievements
➤ Secured work with public and private financial service companies with 1000+ staff across UK and Europe. 
➤ Consistently achieved and maintained technology compliance rates of over 95% in diverse enterprises.
➤ Oversaw security and risk assessment for a national clearing house managing assets valued at $27 trillion.

Senior Information Security Consultant

Euroclear

➤ Overseeing critical initiatives to assure delivery is in line with risk tolerance
➤ Conducting risk assessments for critical business applications and processes
➤ Collaborating with executive stakeholders to apply risk management strategy
➤ Development and management of board level KRIs

Senior Information Security Risk Manager 

➤ Conduct risk assessments for critical financial applications and documents weaknesses for review.
➤ Design and develop security requirements based on the outcome of business impact assessments. 
➤ Work in collaboration with the CISO to build and create security requirements in line with NIST CSF.
➤ Assess third party risk in business and cloud applications and make best practice recommendations.

Key Achievements
➤ Lead for cyber risk assessments on bots and artificial intelligence
➤ Risk assessment of a critical financial application vital to capital markets processing $1Q annually.
➤ Identification of critical risks resulting in RFP to seek a new vendor to remediate open vulnerabilities.

Principal Information Security Consultant - CISO IT Risk

Takeda

➤ Digital transformation project lead in the setup of a US client’s Innovation Capability Centre in Slovakia.
➤ Defined the baseline security standards, security standard toolsets, and phased out unnecessary tools.
➤ Developed supporting SOP and policy documentation and standards and secured approval for rollout.
➤ Established endpoint protection team, a SIEM/SOAR capability, and vulnerability management program. 

Key Achievements
➤ Led global security standard for on-prem and cloud security deployments for digital transformation.
➤ Designed and implemented an executive dashboard to provide a data-driven security program.
➤ Improved executive decision making by enabling access to critical real time data and information. 
➤ Facilitated introductions for executives with Slovakian contacts helping growth from 30 to 300 staff. 
➤ Recruited and trained endpoint protection team overseeing 60,000 workstations and 120,000 servers.

Endpoint Security Team Lead

AT&T

➤	Led the security and IT strategy for the WPP Plc. account agile team, architects, and 30 engineers.
➤	Managed all client services to deliver secure architectures across EMEA, US, and APAC regions. 
➤	Worked in collaboration with the client CIO to implement technical solutions to drive cost reduction. 
➤	Technical SME conducting security analytics, control assessments, vulnerability, and risk assessments. 
➤	Mentored network team and architects to drive professional development and delivery to meet KPIs.

Key Achievements
➤	Transitioned WPP Plc. to enable a work from home setup in response to Covid from scratch.
➤	Created standardised workflows to deliver fast but consistent results for high priority projects.
➤	Appointed as Global Agile Team lead delivering a backlog of work and greatly reducing costs.

Senior Information Security Architect - Global Agile Program Lead

➤ Lead for the Citizens Financial Group account and the technology lead for the network engineers.
➤ Risk assessment and audit to identify all in scope assets and assessed existing configuration and gaps.
➤ Audited accounts to assess security posture, conducted risk assessments, and proposed improvements.
➤ Designed complex secure architectures in campus, WAN, data centres, SDN, and wireless environments.
➤ Produced documentation for RFP, RFI, and proposals, and architectural lead for projects over $100M.
➤ Developed security reference architectures aligned to business strategy and PCI-DSS requirements.

Key Achievements
➤ Achieved PCI-DSS compliance in a complex banking environment reducing enterprise IT risk by 68%.
➤ Responded to an RFP for Dow Chemicals architecting a secure solution resulting in a $100M contract. 
➤ Resolved instability issues which led to outages on 1200 ATMs and implemented enhanced logging.

Senior Network Security Architect - Lead for Citizens Financial Group

First Data Corporation

➤ Secured card and payment systems and networks in compliance with PCI-DSS on two continents.
➤ Strategic lead for disaster recovery planning, testing, and regulatory compliance for payment hubs.
➤ Compliance management including pre-testing, fault finding, resolutions, and regulator liaison. 
➤ Implementation and technical solutions for switches, routers, firewalls, VPNs, and load balancers.

Key Achievements
➤ Lead for 20 EMEA core credit card processing hubs exclusively managing London and South Africa. 
➤ Designed secure data centre and colocation architectures for multiple EMEA countries hubs.  
➤ Developed and rolled out cybersecurity policies and SOPs across EMEA to protect financial data.

Senior Network Security Engineer

T-Systems International GmbH

➤ Supervised the team and implemented security policies in a multi-vendor firewall environment.
➤ Network design SME providing input and advice on a wide range of critical business services.
➤ Deployed secure applications through engineering load balancing services for business continuity.
➤ Conducted risk assessments and made recommendations on best practice technology solutions. 

Key Achievements
➤ Project managed the deployment of the first 4G network in Europe for T-Systems International.
➤ Migration of a large-scale payment service to a greenfield ultra-low latency environment.
➤ Implemented network-based services for EverythingEverywhere’s search oriented architecture suite.

Network Security Engineer

Two words sum up my mission in information security: trust and expertise. With 15 years of security and 10 years of risk management experience under my belt, I've been fortunate enough to work with leading organizations like Cisco, AT&T, IBM, Kyndryl, First Data, and Euroclear.

My portfolio:

→ I help financial services firms secure their business and improve performance metrics with ISO 27001
→ Assessing AI risks in large complex environments and providing solutions to use AI in a risk-aware manner
→ I train teams and organizations on ISO 27001 implementation and auditing. 
→ Speaks to more than 30,000 people annually
→ Coaches and helps young professionals start and enhance their cybersecurity careers

My results:

→ Secured assets worth over $1 quadrillion
→ Delivered projects worth over $100M
→ Recently completed a major project with a world-renown vendor addressing cloud security risks
→ Consistently achieved security compliance rates of over 95% in diverse enterprises
→ Advised on the development of an innovative CNAPP security solution with a major vendor
→ Author of the Ransomware Handbook and Profit-Driven Cybersecurity

→ Contact: https://www.mikeboutwell.com/contact
→ X: @mikeboutwell4

Strategic Road Map Action Plan Comitttee of the Nigeria Data Protection Bureau (NDPB) 

Chair

Alpha-Arewa Foundation

Board Member

TruData Limited

tru-DATA Limited develops solutions that offers a powerful encryption technology for positive identification, verification, authentication and protection. It is a potent technology for the elimination of document forgery and counterfeiting by up to 99.9%. tru-DATA simplifies the process of vetting, verification and authentication within an all-inclusive secured application environment.

Chairman

African Union Commission

ToR:
- Advising the AUC on cyber security issues and policies, such as capacity building initiatives;- Proposing solutions to facilitate the ratification and domestication of the Malabo
Convention into national laws;
- Sharing best practice on critical and Internet infrastructure security and how to mitigate
current and new threats;
- Identifying areas of research needed for the formulation of policies, guidelines, etc., which
can be general or sector-specific, for instance, cyber security for smart grid technologies in
the electric power industry, for financial systems, and for equipment monitoring tools
- Identifying ways to support Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs), in the
area of capacity building and information sharing at the regional and African Union level;
- Encouraging close collaboration among AU Member States and stakeholders, including in
responsible and coordinated disclosures;
- Proposing ways to increase the skills of information systems and cyber security
professionals in Africa (e.g. by fostering trusted certification programs)
- Supporting AUC in formulating strategies for cyber security and capacity
building programs;
- Supporting AUC and Member States on international cooperation matters regarding cyber
security, personal data protection and combating cybercrime.

Member AU Cybersecurity Experts Group

CYAN (Cybersecurity & Cybercrime Advisors Network)

CYAN network is an international association established on May 11 this 2015. 

The ambition of this association is to strengthen cybersecurity and to fight against cybercrime through a multi-disciplinary approach based on mutual trust and on complementarity of profiles and experiences of its members.

The purpose of the association is to defend and promote the interests and expertise of its members, which are also motivated by the same ambition, through external and internal exchanges of good practices, of knowledge, of expertise, of connections, of cooperation and of assistance in any circumstances.

The association also appears as a source of proposals towards national public authorities and international institutions as regards issues related to cybersecurity and fight against cybercrime (legislative and regulatory developments, partnership, and establishment of best practices…).

Cybersecurity and the fight against cybercrime remains complex and strategic issues for companies and the public sector. Both companies looking for advice and experts themselves find it challenging to identify available and trusted advisors. CYAN network aims to provide an international platform that simplifies identification and introduction among trusted advisors.

Member

Cyber Institute Ltd/ Gte.

Cyber Institute Ltd/ GTE, NGO/ Professional Body
Goals:
1.	Build an ecosystem to protect Critical National Information Infrastructure 
2.	Create cyber security awareness of individuals, organisations, the nation & region 
3.	Engender a domestic Cyber Security Solutions industry
4.	Foster multi-stakeholder partnerships to address cyber threats in real-time
Objectives:
1.	Awareness
2.	Training - Teaching & learning
3.	Policy input
4.	Cyber Drills
5.	Competitions
6.	Research
7.	Digital Forensics
Initiatives:
1.	Build a network ecosystem of credible cybersecurity entities & professionals.
2.	Assist various sectors to establish sectorial Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) & strengthen relationships.
3.	Encourage global experience & information sharing in ICT Security.
4.	Promote collaborative technology research, development, outreach & innovation in ICT security fields.
5.	Promote good practices and/ or recommendations to address legal & regulatory as well as technical & institutional issues.
6.	Commission annual risk & vulnerability assessments.
7.	Broad-based capacity building including awareness, training & requisite activities to develop & preserve of institutional memory.
8.	Promote good practices and/ or recommendations to address legal & regulatory as well as technical & institutional issues.
Key outcomes:
1.	Enhanced safety of cyberspace relying on Nigerian critical information infrastructure
2.	Improved security, confidence & associated growth & robustness of the Nigerian economy
3.	Evolve a Micro Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) based Cyber Security Solutions economic sub-sector principally driven by suitably empowered knowledge workers below 35 years of age.

Founder

International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Arab Regional Cyber Security Centre

Oman ITU RCC 
The first ITU Regional Cybersecurity Centre has been set up in Oman and is hosted by the Information Technology Authority (ITA) of Oman and Oman CERT. The Centre is designed to cater for the cybersecurity needs of the Arab Region. The Centre was officially launched on 3 March 2013 at the Oman National CERT in Muscat, Oman. 

Oman ITU RCC 
The first ITU Regional Cybersecurity Centre has been set up in Oman and is hosted by the Information Technology Authority (ITA) of Oman and Oman CERT. The Centre is designed to cater for the cybersecurity needs of the Arab Region. The Centre was officially launched on 3 March 2013 at the Oman National CERT in Muscat, Oman. 

The setting up of the first African region RCC, in Nigeria, is currently in its planning phase and will be hosted by the Nigeria Communications Commission. 

The ITU Regional Cybersecurity Centre (RCC) is a physical centre hosted by an ITU Member State to act as the regional ITU-IMPACT focal point for cybersecurity issues as well as deliver ITU-IMPACT’s cybersecurity services to all partner countries within the agreed regional scope.  

The main objectives of the RCC are to:  

Strengthen the regional cybersecurity posture and increase the number of cybersecurity initiatives and projects within the region;
Localize ITU-IMPACT’s cybersecurity services to better fit the regional needs and requirements as well as language and cultural requirements; 
Build and strengthen regional collaboration in cybersecurity issues as well as increase regional information sharing enabled by ITU-IMPACT’s Electronically Secured Collaborative Application Platform for Experts (ESCAPE); 
Construct a global network of Regional Cybersecurity Centres that will assist in building a truly global cooperation on cybersecurity issues and contribute to the global culture of cybersecurity. 

http://www.cert.gov.om/

http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Cybersecurity/Pages/Regional_Cybersecurity_Centre.aspx

Resource person

South East Asia Regional Centre for Counter-Terrorism (SEARCCT)  www.searcct.gov.my

The Southeast Asia Regional Centre for Counter-Terrorism (SEARCCT) was officially launched on 1 July 2003 by the then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia, the Honourable Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar.

SEARCCT serves as a leading centre in the Southeast Asia region to train and enhance the capacity of enforcement, security and government officials on counter-terrorism issues in collaboration with established think-tank institutions and international organisations. The Centre also serves to promote Malaysia's perspective on how best to deal with terrorism in particular its comprehensive approach to counter-terrorism.

SEARCCT has also utilised various training courses, seminars, workshops, conferences, and forums to discuss and disseminate the urgency to have a multi-pronged and multi-faceted approach in countering terrorism. In implementing its mission, SEARCCT has identified seven flagships to work on. These flagships are:-

    Legal and Investigation,
    CBRNE and Crisis Management,
    Aviation, Maritime and Transport Security,
    Cyber Terrorism,
    Prevention and Rehabilitation,
    Terrorism Financing and
    Youth and Terrorism.


www.searcct.gov.my

Backbone Connectivity Network (BCN) Nigeria Limited

BCN is a neutral, wholesale telecommunications operator that enables other operators and enterprises by providing high quality, secure, high bandwidth connectivity for their own internal networks, interconnection with other operator networks and broadband access to their end users.It is focused on providing broadband access, backbone and other connectivity services to national operators, local and long distance telephony providers, data communications providers, private telecommunications operators, Internet service providers and cable and other video service providers.

BCN secured 2 licenses from the Nigeria Communications commision (NCC) in 2004 to provide backhaul and other high capacity transmission services, deploy and operate:

    National Long Distance Network
    Metropolotan Fiber Network

BCN secured "Rights of Ways" in the Federal Capital where telecommunictions ducts were laid out as part of the completed infrastructure in the territory.

www.bcnnigeria.net

Director and Member of the Board

Consultancy Support Services (CS2) Ltd.

Providing Cyber Security, Virtual Library, Organisational Effectiveness (OE), Support, Management and Information Communications Technology (ICT) Consulting Services

https://sites.google.com/site/consultancysupportservices

The Penthouse (6th Floor), Ogun State House, Plot 74, Ralph Shodeinde Street,
Central Business District, Abuja FCT, Nigeria 90001.
GPO 10027, Garki, Abuja FCT,

http://consultancyss.com.ng

1	Description:  An Organisational Development (OD), support, management and Information Communications Technology (ICT) consulting firm.

2	Mission Statement:  “To collaborate with, and empower, our clients by leveraging knowledge.”

3	Motto:  Collaboration. Empowerment. 

4	Culture & Values:  Our collaborative culture means that we have linkages from around the world that provide the needed support required at very short notice.

5	Core activities:
A	ICT Consulting:
i)	Master Plans/ Strategic Action Plans/ Policies
ii)	Content creation/ Provisioning
iii)	Specifications development, vendor assessment and compliance, supervision, Quality Assurance
iv)	Community Resource Centre (CRC)
v)	Community Radio (CR)
vi)	Virtual Library
vii)	Advocacy/ Events
viii)	Cyber-Security
B	Organisational Development (OD)
i)	Capacity Building:  Human & Material
ii)	Training
iii)	Prometric Testing
iv)	Change Management
v)	Partnership Development; PPP, NGO, Govt, Private
vi)	Virtual Office Services 
vii)	ICT Financing Brokerage

6	Our People:  CS2 is peopled by a team of “Resourceful Managers” with strong bias towards the generation, sharing and utilisation of knowledge.

7	Structure:  A flat core firm (CS2) that endeavours to empower its colleagues to spin-off specialised firms, which they will operate as entrepreneurs, at the rate of one every six months.

Executive Chairman

Partner: Consultancy Support Services, Ltd., http://consultancysupportservices.googlepages.com an ICT, Human Resources & Organization Development consultancy firm. 

This firm has designed and is currently implementing Virtual Libraries in several Higher Education Institution’s (HEI’s) in Nigeria; developing institutional Strategic ICT Master Plans; facilitating ICT and Management capacity building and advocacy activities; and providing advice and support service to investors exploring opportunities in Africa.

Chief Empowerment Officer (CEO)

Bridge builder in legacy mode

Abdul-Hakeem Ajijola (AhA), a global Cybersecurity resource is ranked #1 in the 2020 IFSEC Global Cybersecurity professionals influencers and thought leaders list; he is concurrently the Chair, African Union Cyber Security Expert Group (AUCSEG); Chair, Working Group on Cyber Incident Management and Critical Information Protection of Global Forum on Cyber Expertise #theGFCE www.thegfce.com; Listed on the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) www.un.org Roster of Experts supporting the development of an online training course in “Cyber-diplomacy;" Commissioner, Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (#theGCSC) https://cyberstability.org; Member, Presidential Committee on the Development of the 2020-2025 National Broadband Plan; and member Group of Experts for the Nigerian Senate Committee on Cybersecurity and ICT. He is a founding member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation – Computer Emergency Response Team (OIC-CERT) www.oic-cert.org. AhA’s daytime job is Chairman, Consultancy Support Services (CS2) Ltd., www.cs2.com.ng a Cyber Security, e-Library and Information Communication Technology (ICT) Policy Consultancy Firm, based in Abuja, Nigeria. He is working to kick-start the development of an Africa Cybersecurity Economic sub sector employing thousands of knowledge workers, below 35 years of age, who will profitably drive Cybersecurity solutions value chains to solve current and future problems.

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