I realised it has been getting on for three months since my last blog post.. Getting back into writing posts has been on my mind for a few weeks, but things in life have been extremely hectic recently! Briefly life has involved getting engaged, planning a rather cool wedding and honeymoon, redecorating an entire house, and not to mention starting a new job.
Work wise I am now a Senior Security Architect for WorldPay which is pretty much exactly the role I have been aiming to get for some time. As with most roles the first few weeks have been a hectic time of getting to know the company, policies and processes, people as well as rapidly picking up constructive work.
I thought I’d start this years blogs with an overview of some of my plans relating to work and learning for 2013. Obviously as it’s now nearly the end of February I am using ‘start’ or the year fairly loosely!
So looking ahead for the year, what are my plans / projects for 2013?
1. Complete my Masters project; Due to everything that has been happening I requested as have been granted an extension until May of this year to complete my project. I have completed and passed the rest of my Masters, so this is the final piece between me and being awarded the post graduate degree. With continuing to get to grips with my new role and everything else that is going on, this will be a challenge, but something I need to complete.
2. Improve my knowledge of secure, always available multi-site data centre networking; Network security is one of my key focus areas, and this links nicely with the environment I am currently tasked with ensuring the security of.
3. Continue to lead and contribute to the Cloud Security Alliance Security as a Service working group. This has become a major project for me that I have been leading for nearly a couple of years now. This is another one that also ties in nicely with my WorldPay role as I will also be covering cloud security and strategy as one of my responsibilities.
4. Various smaller / side tasks including getting round to taking my TOGAF exam, attending various useful industry conferences such as RSA and Infosec (work budgets permitting of course), along with being successful in my new role and progressing at WorldPay. This may of course lead to further projects this year depending on the tasks I need to achieve as part of my role, I’ll obviously keep you posted around any of these I can publicly discuss.
I’ll keep you all posted with my progress around these projects / tasks, along with other interesting things that happen during the year. Hears to a productive and interesting 2013.
K
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