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

Deloitte

Senior Manager

Specialist Master | Manager 

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Senior Consultant 

HCL Infosystems Ltd.

Project:  Data Center Transformation Program:

Providing IT services through the Data center Migrate from old HQ to new HQ and the also considering growing demand on IT setup to meet the challenging business requirements such as enable flexibility, rapid service deployment, consolidation, automation, while leveraging latest available technologies and upcoming technology trends including Cloud, Virtualization, DRM, to transform and migrate to new Datacenter (DC) and Disaster Recovery (DR). 


        Roles & Responsibilities DRM (Disaster Recovery Management):             

●	End-to-end ownership of AS-IS Data Gathering, preparing TO BE data gathering templets, Solution consultancy, Solution Design- HLD, POC, LLD, RFP.
●	Consult with product teams to align disaster recovery strategies with enterprise architecture solutions, representing multiple platforms, services, or tools.
●	Conduct analysis on disaster recovery architecture to ensure it can meet Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery point objectives (RPO).
●	Drive disaster recovery testing methodologies; assist with the execution of testing
●	Preform End-to-End Implementation of DC, HA, and DR Solution on cloud.
●	Perform integration of DRM tool to Private Cloud.
●	Perform User Acceptance Test
●	DR- DRILL using DRM Tool.

Team Lead

Sanovi, An IBM Company

Project: Migration Enterprise to AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud:

Sanovi’s Cloud Migration Manager enables Enterprise Business Trans- formation by providing intelligent workload migration to accelerate public cloud adoption and realize true cloud benefits through migration life-cycle automation.

         Roles & Responsibilities:             
●	Installation, Configuration, Manage and Monitor Sanovi Cloud Migration Manager.
●	Migration process lifecycle: Discovery, Plan, Migrate, Test and Cutover.
●	END-END configuration of migration servers to Disaster recovery management.
●	Integration of Vcenter and AWS to DRM
●	END-END configuration of Database, Application, Web servers and migrating to Cloud. 
●	Configuration and testing of DR solution deployment onto AWS
●	Real-time monitoring and alerts of DR solution health and data RPO and RTO SLA’s
●	Configuration in VMware VM to migration to cloud like enable the CBT, install vmware tool, Assign IP, Snapshot etc.
●	Execution Test, Cutover where the production will be down and Recovery Site AWS will be UP.

SQA Software Engineer - II

Synopsis: 
“Sanovi Disaster Recovery Management Software (DRM Pumice 6.0)”  

Sanovi DR Management™ Suite ensures recovery readiness through DR
infrastructure monitoring, testing and automated recovery of business applications to meet service level objectives. Built on a standards-based platform that leverage your existing database replication and storage subsystem replication solutions, Sanovi DRM is the only DR management solution that offers real-time monitoring, testing, reporting, events, policies and automated recovery features needed for end-to-end visibility and confidence in your DR infrastructure. India Largest and Top Ten Banks are using this Product. Sanovi DRM overlays on top of existing Recovery systems and interfaces deeply with recovery components for application assurance. Sanovi DRM recognizes industry best practice recovery solution signatures. This patent pending approach enables Sanovi to provide recovery intelligence at the application, replication and infrastructures level.

-  Development of automation framework.
-  Automated Solutions ( Using Sahi Tool )
-  Involved in the Sprint planning
-  Preparing the test bed, creating replication setups
-  Managing and maintaining testing infrastructures.
-  Writing test case, execution plans.
-  Preparing the test reports, participated in release activities 
-  Release Demo to Sprint team and Product owner.

Synopsis: 
“Sanovi Disaster Recovery Management Software (DRM Pumice 6.2,3)”  

-  I development of automation framework.
-  Automated Solutions ( Using Sahi Tool )
-  Involved in the Sprint planning
-  Preparing the test bed, creating replication setups
-  Managing and maintaining testing infrastructures.
-  Writing test case, execution plans.
-  Preparing the test reports, participated in release activities 
-  Release Demo to Sprint team and Product owner

Software Engineer SQA

Govinda Mengji possesses a robust knowledge of Emerging Technologies, including Cloud, AI and Blockchain. He actively stay abreast of industry trends and continually explore innovative solutions within the dynamic landscapes of Cybersecurity, Cloud, AI, & Blockchain. 

Govinda Mengji’s articles on cybersecurity, cloud, blockchain, and IoT have been published in multiple magazines. He is tech speaker have been invited to tech conferences/events as a speaker to share his thoughts on cybersecurity, cloud, AI & emerging technologies.

Cyber Security & Technology Senior Manager at Deloitte Middle East, experience in various technologies like Cloud, Virtualization, Network, Cyber Security, Storage, Backup, Databases, Replication technologies, Design Application Architecture, IT-Operations, Infrastructure & Information Security, IT-DR, Implementation experience in various technologies, design and develop HLD, LLD. Project Management & Delivery experience, and coordinating with Stakeholders & C-suite.

Cloud Migration, Strategy, Cloud Implementation Assessment, Cloud Governance & Security Audit, SAAS Audit, Multi-Cloud Assessment, Data Protection in Cloud, Cloud Orchestration, 360 degree Cloud Security Assessment.

Technology Resilience (People, Process, Technology), IT- Disaster Recovery, DR-Strategy, DR-Plan, DR-Test Plan, DR- Technical Recovery Steps, DR-Drill, IT-DR/BCM Audit, IT Audit & Control Assurance, Data Center Audit, IT- Gap Analysis, BIA (Business Impact Analysis), TRA (Technical Risk Assessment), Geographic Diversity DR Planning.

Data Center Transformation Programs included planning cutover/migration plans of complete data center infrastructure and applications, functionality validation post data center migration.

Industries:  
• Aviation 
• Stock Exchange
• Oil & Gas 
• Health Insurance 
• Banking 
• Government Sectors 
• Technology Media & Telecommunication
• Education Sectors

Certificates:
• BTA Certified Blockchain Solution Architect 
• BTA Certified Blockchain Business Foundations
• IBM Blockchain Essentials V2
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• Microsoft Azure Cloud Fundamentals
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Associate
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate
• Prisma Cloud Visibility, Compliance, and Governance
• Aviatrix - Multi-Cloud Networking Associate
• VMware Data Center Virtualization
• Sanovi - IBM DRM/Resiliency Orchestration
• ISO 22301:2012 Lead Implementer - BSI
• Agile Methodology

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