Kelly O.

Education: Masters Degree

Information Technology

University of Lagos



Certificate

Information Security

Institute of Information Security (IIS)

Experience: 2022 : Present

EY

Manager, Cybersecurity

Delivering client engagements primarily across Africa and MENA regions.

Portfolio Areas include :

Executive Advisory

Strategy, Risk, Compliance & Resilience

Data Protection & Privacy

Identity & Access Management

Cybersecurity Transformation & Cyber Threat Management

Next Generation Security Operations & Response

2019 : 2022

EY

Assistant Manager, Cybersecurity

Perform targeted red team assessments with vulnerability identification, exploitation, and post-exploitation activities.

Provide technical leadership to provide requirements for secure app design, identify secure user stories from standards framework, determine security controls and create framework for secure unit tests.

Analyse applications from a security perspective to discover security issues that appear under new threat scenarios.

Responsible for defining security requirements, proactively performing security assessments to prevent security vulnerabilities, conducting trainings to raise developer awareness of security best practices and partnering closely with various development teams to produce innovative and secure solutions.

Responsible for identifying and prioritising enterprise level Cybersecurity threats and risks, and defining required action plans.

Establish secure application design architecture standards, conduct code reviews of applications to identify areas of optimisation related to fortifying application code and controls.

Provide strategic vision and strategy for secure app design optimisation, automation and innovations that enable developers to successfully code defensively.

Evaluate data from Web Application Firewall, SAST/DAST scanning, Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Disclosure Program, Incident Responses and Threat Intelligence functions to establish priorities and remediation of vulnerability classes.

Contribute to and drive forward the Cyber Defence service strategy.

Contribute as a leader to the SOC Management team to identify and implement areas for improvement across people, technology, and process.

Manage a staff of cybersecurity engineers by defining objectives, targets, responsibilities, development plan, and overall talent performance and career management.

2018 : 2019

GTBank

Head, IT Risk

Participated and led various offensive security engagements for clients in EMEIA.

2015 : 2018

Network Intelligence

Cyber Security Consultant

Advised and helped HDFC bank with vulnerability management and treatment to ensure compliance for various security standards and regulations.

2016 : 2017

HDFC Bank

Information Security Advisor

Company: EY

Years of Experience: 12

Spoken Language: English, Igbo