About Me

Hi I am Niall McGowan I am passionate about security.

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I’m a Information Security Professional and BSI ISO27001 Lead Auditor. I currently work for the Bank of New York Mellon.

With an eclectic range of previous experience I have recently focused on holistic evaluations of security baselines in IaaS, PaaS and SaaS cloud environments to define and adapt policy and automate checks and remediation.

Specialising in security architecture through governance, risk and compliance (GRC), systems/network benchmarking and hardening, vulnerability assessments, and user awareness.

Organisations I have previously worked with include MoneySupermarket, Martin Baker, The Government of Malta, The NHS and various UK Government bodies such as HMRC, and BEIS.

What I Specialise In

Cloud Computing Security - Ensuring cloud security through secure configuration, perpetual compliance checks and utilising cloud access security broker software.

Incident Response and Automation - Using a threat informed defense methodology to ensure as many potential incidents are considered and remediated automatically.

IT Governance and Enterprise Risk Management - Using the information gathered from assessments to adapt security policy within an organisation, setting strategy to facilitate the growth of the organisation’s security culture.

User Awareness and Phishing Simulations - I create informative and holistic user awareness campaigns by simplifying policy and leveraging the results of simulated phishing attacks to change employee behaviour.

Vulnerability and Risk Assessments - Conducting vulnerability and risk assessments as well as audits and interviews to determine organisations current security baselines.

Project Management - Proven track record managing large scale projects, involving thousands of staff members.