Gavin Lacey

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About Gavin Lacey

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE •Ability to develop strategic planning for long-term cybersecurity strategies aligned with business goals and objectives. •Expertise in identifying, assessing, and mitigating cybersecurity risks to ensure organizational resilience. • Strong skills in communicating complex security concepts to non-technical stakeholders, including executives and board members. •Ability to lead the organization through security incidents and breaches, minimizing damage and ensuring a swift recovery. •Understanding and managing the framework of policies, procedures, and controls to ensure compliance and security best practices. •Proficiency in analysing emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and trends to proactively protect the organization. •Leading the organisation’s response to security breaches and incidents, ensuring effective resolution and communication. •Leading and mentoring security teams, fostering a culture of security awareness and continuous improvement. •Overseeing third-party relationships, ensuring vendors meet security requirements, and managing supply chain risks. •Understanding the broader business context, balancing security with business needs, and demonstrating the value of cybersecurity initiatives. •Expertise in designing secure IT infrastructures, networks, and applications. •Leading the organisation through changes in technology, security processes, and organisational culture to enhance security posture. •Working with IT, legal, HR, and other departments to ensure a comprehensive security strategy. •Ability to measure, track, and report security performance and risk mitigation progress to senior leadership. •Negotiating contracts with security service providers, ensuring favourable terms and high security standards. • Maintaining Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation • Reviewing existing and purchasing new security products to improve the enterprises security operations portfolio. • Hiring of new team members. • Managing a team of security analysts with day-to-day operations and providing mentoring. • Working with monitoring solutions and providing incident response and analysis. • Experience of EDR, NDR, External Attack Surface Monitoring, SIEM, SOAR, Security Validation, DMARC, Cloud Security, WAF, Vulnerability Management, Firewall Technology, TPRM. firewall …. • Design, build and deliver new security solutions, • Managing vulnerabilities and prioritising patching priorities. • Keeping abreast of the latest cyber threats and providing solutions to overcome any that directly affect the enterprise.