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

Royal Scientific Society الجمعيّة العلميّة الملكيّة

Security assessments and audits: identifying security risks and vulnerabilities in an organization's systems, networks, and applications. Penetration testing to simulate attacks and determine the effectiveness of security controls.

Developing and implementing security policies and procedures: This includes defining security standards, best practices, and guidelines for the organization. Develop incident response plans and disaster recovery procedures.

Managing security infrastructure: involves configuring and maintaining security devices such as firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and other security appliances. Manage security-related software and tools such as anti-virus, anti-malware, and encryption software.

Conducting security awareness training includes educating employees about security risks, policies, and best practices to help them understand how to protect themselves and the organization from cyber threats.

Responding to security incidents: involves investigating and resolving security incidents and breaches and coordinating with other IT, legal, and law enforcement teams as needed.

Monitoring and analyzing security logs and events: involves reviewing security logs and events to identify potential security incidents and take appropriate actions to mitigate risks.

Keeping up-to-date with the latest security trends and technologies, staying current with emerging threats and vulnerabilities, and new security tools and techniques.

Communicate with stakeholders. Providing regular security updates and reports to management and other stakeholders and collaborating with other teams to ensure security requirements are incorporated into new projects and initiatives

System and Networks Administrator 

Princess Sumaya University for Technology

•	Develop user requirements and specifications for software and IT equipment. 
•	Carry out Business and Data analysis in ICT sector.
•	Provide basic ICT Technical expertise, feedback and guidance. 
•	Work with software/hardware suppliers in the development and implementation of solutions. 
•	Testing and Review of products and solutions. 
•	Technical support services for Infrastructure such as desktops and mobile clients, servers, operating systems, storage. 
•	Network services such as TCP/IP network equipment and software, email, directories, firewalls, DNS. 
•	Record, analyze and resolve basic incidents and problems related to ICT Solutions. 
•	Install and configure server operating systems. 
•	Create user domain and set up user accounts, permissions and passwords. 
•	Evaluate, test, and deploy all software and hardware upgrades to the server infrastructure. 
•	Administer and maintain computer networks and related computing environments, including computer hardware, systems software, applications software, and all configurations. 
•	Perform a wide range of system administration duties on MIS database, application, and other servers including install, debug, maintain, upgrade, and general support. 
•	Operate master consoles in order to monitor the performance of computer systems and networks, and to coordinate computer network access and use. 
•	Gather data pertaining to customer needs, and use the information to identify, predict, interpret, and evaluate system and network requirements. 
•	Coordinate with vendors and with company personnel in order to facilitate purchases.
•	Monitor and maintain performance of ICT services ensuring adequate capacity and availability of services taking both proactive and reactive action when required.

System and Network Admin

The University of Jordan

•	To monitor, maintain, install, and support networked servers, computer systems, and peripheral equipment; provides professional-level network support functions, and assists faculty, staff, and students in an academic lab environment.
•	Provides technical support, training, and assistance to students, faculty, and staff in a computer lab environment; analyzes problems and implements solutions according to Department guidelines and procedures; performs network and server administrator duties, and assures system stability, accessibility, and proper configuration of assigned technical systems and components.
•	Performs computer troubleshooting to diagnose system problems; analyzes hardware and software functionality; identifies, locates, resolves and repairs issues within the scope of authority; documents call records and results.
•	Monitors domain environment; resolves configuration and connectivity issues, and other traffic, security, and access problems; checks network for operating efficiency, makes corrective adjustments to data management settings, and assures system integrity; sets up and repairs network hardware.
•	Maintains departmental website.
•	Maintains and updates workstations, servers, equipment, and peripherals; researches and tests new software; installs upgrades and enhancements; uses imaging software to create and deploy desktop computers.
•	Enrolls students, faculty, and staff in tutorial applications and domain services as required; monitors utilization trends and backup procedures; manages user accounts, password files and access rights.
•	Responds to the needs and inquiries of students, faculty, and staff; explain IT issues, deploy solutions, and follow up with users to ensure the stability and functionality of the users'​ systems.

Technical Support Engineer

Jordan Armed Forces

•	Installing and configuring computer hardware operating systems and applications.
•	Monitoring and maintaining computer systems and networks.
•	Talking staff or clients through a series of actions, either face to face or over the telephone to help set up systems or resolve issues.
•	Troubleshooting system and network problems, diagnosing, and solving hardware or software faults.
•	Administrator on Tenders and Stores systems and Human resources (HR) system, that includes the creation new reports, modification on reports and end users screens, maintenance, backups for the system data, tracking the procedures and the performance on the system and network. 
•	Replacing parts as required.
•	Providing support, including procedural documentation and relevant reports.
•	Create programs by using SQL, Oracle developer. (10g, 6i, 2.1) and MS Access (2010, 2007, 2003).
•	Following diagrams and written instructions to repair a fault or set up a system.
•	Supporting the rollout of new applications.
•	Setting up new users'​ accounts and profiles and dealing with password issues.
•	Responding within agreed time limits to call-outs.
•	Working continuously on a task until completion (or referral to third parties, if appropriate).
•	Prioritizing and managing many open cases at one time.
•	Rapidly establishing a good working relationship with customers and other professionals, e.g., software developers.
•	Testing and evaluating new technology.
•	Conducting electrical safety checks on computer equipment.
•	Installing and configuring computer hardware operating systems and applications.
•	Monitoring and maintaining computer systems and networks.
•	Talking staff or clients through a series of actions, either face to face or over the telephone to help set up systems or resolve issues.
•	Troubleshooting system and network problems, diagnosing, and solving hardware or software faults.
•	Replacing parts as required.

IT Officer

As an 𝐈𝐓 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥  with 13 years of experience in the field, I am passionate about protecting organizations from cyber threats and ensuring the safety of their sensitive data. 𝐌𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐬 security awareness, network security, vulnerability assessments, and incident response. I am highly skilled in using scanning tools and analyzing vulnerabilities, antiviruses, and risk assessments.

Throughout my career, I have developed a strong understanding of the constantly evolving information technology and cybersecurity landscape. I am committed to staying up-to-date with the latest threats and security solutions. I have a proven track record of network and system security assessment, physical access, and put policies.

In my current role at the Royal Scientific Society / Cyber Security, I am responsible for network security and reviewing the policies. I am always seeking new challenges and opportunities to apply my skills and knowledge to help organizations strengthen their cybersecurity posture.

If you are looking for a dedicated cybersecurity professional committed to protecting your organization from cyber threats, don't hesitate to get in touch with me.

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