Hi 👋

Welcome to my personal website. I'm a cyber security consultant with a love for management cybernetics and building useful systems. I love thinking about how we can use information systems to solve problems and help people.

This website is small and personal - mostly serving as a home for my blog. If you want to connect professionally head over to my LinkedIn, or to my consulting website Assured Defence Assessed Security (ADAS).

What am I up to?

I am the Technical Director of a consultancy called Assured Defence and Assessed Security (ADAS). Our main services are Penetration Testing, Policy Support for ISO 27001, and the government backed assessments for Cyber Essentials Plus/IASME Cyber Assurance. We also do some pretty cool little bits and pieces to do with information risk consultancy. When I'm lucky, I get to exercise my love of systems-thinking here.

I run iso27001.zip, a non-commercial collection of notes, workshops, and diagrams on the management system standard for Information Security Management Systems, ISO/IEC 27001. I'm enjoying the project as an exercise in learning-in-public, as well as producing accessible resources for newcomers and veterans alike. More on that here.

I am the founder of WebRoots.uk, a grass roots organisation dedicated to resourcing free website creation and digital training for social projects, with student volunteers. Need a website for your food programme/outreach org/radio club? Hit us up!

There's much to discuss, and much to figure out - so I try to do some of that here.