James-McCaugherty

James McCaugherty

BGS Information Security Officer
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James McCaugherty’s biography

  • 2022 – ongoing: Information Security Officer, British Geological Survey
  • 2018 – 2022: Information Security Architect, British Geological Survey
  • 2014 – 2018: Network and Security Specialist, NERC
  • 2012 – 2014: Infrastructure Team, NERC
  • 2004 – 2012: Systems and Network Support, British Geological Survey

Skills

  • Cyber Essentials | Cyber Essentials plus lead
  • BGS Transition Lead for the UKRI Technical Platform Partnership Project
  • BGS IT Security Governance, compliance, and assurance
  • Rapid7 InsightVM certified administrator
  • Maintenance and development of BGS cyber security policies, procedures, and controls
  • To promote the use of IT and best practice IT security principles across BGS and lead on IT security staff awareness
  • Vulnerability scanning and remediation | mitigation
  • Security incident and event monitoring | Incident response | Responsible for cyber security incident reporting to BGS and UKRI.
  • Key liaison with BGS challenge areas and projects
  • Key liaison with UKRI Information Security
  • Member of the UKRI Cyber Security Working Group
  • Member of the BGS internal audit team | Auditing

Qualifications

  • ISO27001 Lead auditor
  • ISO27001 Lead implementer
  • GDPR Data Protection and Privacy implementor | Self-assessor
  • ITILv4
  • PRINCE2
  • Working towards CISSP

Software

  • Tenable IO
  • Nessus Professional
  • Rapid 7 Insight VM
  • Nexus Repository
  • Nexus Firewall
  • Manage Engine Unified Endpoint Management & Security Solution
  • MS Endpoint Manager
  • MS 365 Defender
  • Virus Total Enterprise

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