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About the Author

Dr Nick Savage has over 25 years of experience in cybersecurity and is
currently the Head of Infrastructure, Security and Compliance at
Searchlight Cyber. Nick is responsible for Searchlight’s governance and
compliance and this involves maintaining Searchlight’s Information Security
Management System. At Searchlight, Nick ensures that their systems and
processes are compliant with the UK’s Cyber Essentials scheme, ISO
27001: 2022 and the Common Criteria in SOC 2.

Prior to joining Searchlight, Nick was the Head of the School of Computing
at the University of Portsmouth, where he led a team of approximately 100
staff and researchers and participated in large UK and EU cyber security
projects such as Foresight and CyberTrust. As a part of this, Nick was
recognized for his contributions to cybersecurity by a special award from IBM. Between 2016 and 2021
Nick was a member (eventually vice-chair) of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing in the
United Kingdom and worked with the UK Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance in the
Cabinet Office to embed cybersecurity into the curriculum of computer science degrees. Nick has also
been a speaker for the UK’s NCSC CyberFirst program, a keynote speaker for various international
conferences and for industry events run by ESET and Accenture. Nick was a member of the DG
CONNECT Working Group developing the EU Directive 2016/1148 on the NIS Platform. Nick has been
an academic advisor to the UK’s Commonwealth Scholarship Commission and an Academic Advocate
for ISACA; reviewing CISA, CISM and CoBIT 4.0. Nick is a Fellow of the BCS, The Chartered Institute
for IT and a Chartered Engineer (CEng). Find out more at https://www.slcyber.io/

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