Kelly O.
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Information Technology
University of Lagos
Certificate
Information Security
Institute of Information Security (IIS)
EY
Manager, Cybersecurity
Delivering client engagements primarily across Africa and MENA regions.
Portfolio Areas include :
Executive Advisory
Strategy, Risk, Compliance & Resilience
Data Protection & Privacy
Identity & Access Management
Cybersecurity Transformation & Cyber Threat Management
Next Generation Security Operations & Response
2019 : 2022
EY
Assistant Manager, Cybersecurity
Perform targeted red team assessments with vulnerability identification, exploitation, and post-exploitation activities.
Provide technical leadership to provide requirements for secure app design, identify secure user stories from standards framework, determine security controls and create framework for secure unit tests.
Analyse applications from a security perspective to discover security issues that appear under new threat scenarios.
Responsible for defining security requirements, proactively performing security assessments to prevent security vulnerabilities, conducting trainings to raise developer awareness of security best practices and partnering closely with various development teams to produce innovative and secure solutions.
Responsible for identifying and prioritising enterprise level Cybersecurity threats and risks, and defining required action plans.
Establish secure application design architecture standards, conduct code reviews of applications to identify areas of optimisation related to fortifying application code and controls.
Provide strategic vision and strategy for secure app design optimisation, automation and innovations that enable developers to successfully code defensively.
Evaluate data from Web Application Firewall, SAST/DAST scanning, Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Disclosure Program, Incident Responses and Threat Intelligence functions to establish priorities and remediation of vulnerability classes.
Contribute to and drive forward the Cyber Defence service strategy.
Contribute as a leader to the SOC Management team to identify and implement areas for improvement across people, technology, and process.
Manage a staff of cybersecurity engineers by defining objectives, targets, responsibilities, development plan, and overall talent performance and career management.
2018 : 2019
GTBank
Head, IT Risk
Participated and led various offensive security engagements for clients in EMEIA.
2015 : 2018
Network Intelligence
Cyber Security Consultant
Advised and helped HDFC bank with vulnerability management and treatment to ensure compliance for various security standards and regulations.
2016 : 2017
HDFC Bank
Information Security Advisor
Skills
Bash, Black Box Testing, Bootstrap, Branding, Burpsuite, Business Continuity, Communication, Compliance Management, CSS, EnCase, Forensic Analysis, HTML5, Information Security, Internet Entrepreneur, Interpersonal Skills, IT Risk Management, JavaScript, Linux, Management, Metasploit, Microsoft Office, MySQL, Nessus, Networking, Network Security, Nmap, Organization Skills, Penetration Testing, Postman API, Project Management, Python, Sales, Social Media Marketing, Sysinternals suite, TCP/IP, Vulnerability Assessment, Web Applications, Web Application Security, Window, Wireshark
About
Experienced Cybersecurity Manager with over a decade professional experience. I have spoken at conferences, delivered trainings, mentored high-performing teams and advised C-suite executives throughout my career.
Worked and consulted in the Financial Services, Healthcare, Technology, Retail, Logistics and Telecommunication sectors solving security problems for organisations across EMEIA.
Specialty Areas Include:
Application Security
DevSecOps
Cloud Security
Red Teaming
Information Risk Management
Data Privacy
Cyber Defence
Strategy
Executive Leadership.
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