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