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Cyber Security, Risk & Resilience
Early-career cyber security practitioner interested in how real organisations manage security, risk and resilience when things aren’t ideal. I build practical tools, explore real-world systems, and study at MSc level with a long-term goal of moving into security leadership.
MSc Cyber Security, Risk & Resilience (USW), with a focus on building practical security tools and models where technology, people and financial constraints intersect.
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I focus on how organisations manage security, risk and resilience in real conditions, not idealised ones. My work sits across systems, people and process, with a strong emphasis on:
I like to work end-to-end — understanding a system, questioning its assumptions, and iterating until it makes sense. In reality, this looks like:
I’m looking for early-career roles that blend technical security work with risk, governance or resilience. Long-term, I’m aiming for security architecture or leadership pathways where:
If you’d like to talk about roles, collaboration or projects:
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Encrypt and decrypt text directly in your browser using AES, with all processing performed locally to keep your data private, secure, and fully offline.
A secure password generator and a dedicated entropy tester. Both tools run locally and also test the quality of the source randomness.
Generate consistent academic references with validation, structured lists, and export options, designed to save time and reduce formatting errors during writing and research.
I once planned a career in photography, but it just was not financially realistic. I still take photos when I can, and sometimes they turn out far better than I could ever anticipate, even to the point where people occasionally doubt that I took them.
Velosophy is where my motoring hobby got a bit out of hand. I started by jotting down thoughts and asking why we do things the way we do, and before long I was creating fully referenced formal reports to grasp their underlying principles.
I collect British coinage, with the long term goal of finding very fine examples of every version of every coin issued since decimalisation. I also enjoy collecting watches, most are watches that caught my eye, or watches with stories behind them.
