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 co-founder of Turtledove, a development agency that produces software we think will help the world. We're parent to Flatm8.co.uk, a promising rental accountability platform that enables anonymous reviews of British and Irish addresses. The key piece of this puzzle is that we're directly partnered with housing unions like ACORN to build the first ever rogue landlord and rogue estate agent database, searchable for free by all users - you should go and sign up. We're also building EstateM8, a holistic building management and community development solution that weaves building management tools with community development for high rise vertical communities; we're currently undertaking an 'ideation' year with the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks.

I'm quietly doing a MSc in Applied Artificial Intelligence at Warwick University, with ambitions to undertake a PhD exploring themes of digital degrowth, and practical applications of radical rethinking of computation in the personal and political space.

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