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Colin is one of less than 250 Chartered Security Professionals globally and able to offer a niche service to clients, delivering the highest possible standards of service and expertise.
Mike Hawthorne has over 20 years’ experience working with nuclear submarines and is a former nuclear submarine Captain. For the last 20 years he has worked in Cyber Security and Information Technology, including a secondment to GCHQ where he led the formation of the UK’s Cyber Reserves.
He is adept at translating the technical nuances of cyber security into meaningful business actions to: optimise public/private partnership approaches to cyber security; improve workforce cyber security through culture awareness and training; promote intelligence-led cyber security; manage the insider threat; and identify options to improve organisations’ cyber resilience.
In the last few years, Mike has managed a CBEST assessment for a major insurance company post an FCA sanction; a CSC CIS Top 20 Controls review for the UK’s leading processor of safeguarding data; completed the first cyber security assessment for a leading worldwide NYSE listed shipping company; led the cyber resilience response for a major UK food supplier post a significant ransomware attack; and assessed the implementation of appropriate technical and organisational measures, training serials and GDPR compliance activities for numerous pension funds, and start-ups in the Space and FinTech sectors.
He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, and of the Chartered Management Institute. He is a “Younger Brother” of Trinity House, and was awarded the OBE for services to Cyber Security in 2016.
Colin is one of less than 250 Chartered Security Professionals globally and able to offer a niche service to clients, delivering the highest possible standards of service and expertise.