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Cybersecurity Strategy & Programme Leadership Consultant

Strategy work that ends in a funded programme, not a slide deck. I co-led Bangladesh's national cybersecurity strategy and risk framework with the University of Oxford GCSCC, and spent five years building the government CIRT that put it into practice.

What's included

  • Current-state and maturity assessment against NIST CSF 2.0 or ISO/IEC 27001
  • Cyber strategy and multi-year roadmap tied to business and regulatory priorities
  • Business case, budget and governance structure for the programme
  • Programme set-up: PMO, milestones, KPIs and board reporting
  • Policy and standards framework to support the strategy

The outcome

A strategy leadership can fund, and a programme that lands.

Relevant experience

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Jun 2018 – Jun 2019

National cybersecurity strategy & risk framework

Government of Bangladesh · with University of Oxford GCSCC

Led Bangladesh's national cybersecurity strategy with Oxford's Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre.

  • National strategy and risk framework
  • Covered in national press
  • Strategy & policy

2015 – 2020

Bangladesh's first government CIRT

BGD e-GOV CIRT · Norway Registers Development / NRD Bangladesh

Built the country's national government CIRT after the 2016 Bangladesh Bank SWIFT heist.

  • ~95% drop in nationwide cyberattacks
  • Repeat attacks on banks and government blocked
  • Incident response
  • Strategy & policy

May 2019 – Jun 2019

Bangladesh Cyber Threat Landscape 2019

BGD e-GOV CIRT

Prepared and published the national cyber threat landscape report for 2019.

  • National threat report published
  • Research
  • Strategy & policy

Related insights

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Japan Just Showed Us Why KYC Needs an Upgrade

Japan's first cyberspace state of emergency leaked millions of ID images. What that means for photo-and-selfie KYC, the stronger methods replacing it, and the policy changes that matter more.

  • Identity & Fraud
  • Governance & Risk