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Simmons Professional Services Ltd is a
company
registered in
England and Wales -
Company No.: 4704808
VAT
Registration No:
GB 817 920 126
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2008 - Andrea has been awarded Founding Full Member status
of the Institute of Information Security Professionals -
hurrah!
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World Information Society Day is on 17th May 2008. |
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Welcome to SPS. Thank you for visiting our site. 2008 should see a lot of consolidation of understanding of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) - at last! Sad that it has taken so many breaches in 2007 to shine the spotlight well and truly on an area of the industry I work in tirelessly and enjoy thoroughly, with a passion. The industry continues to mature, slowly but surely! Better still, as Andrea is so busy (!), a calendar of her whereabouts for the year is now available here SPS Year Planner 08 - it contains reference to various ongoing projects and responsibilities at the moment and is a work in progress. It provides a view as to my whereabouts in the country (or not) and my availability. If you have a requirement that you would like me to be involved in, please do get in touch via email on info@simmonsprofessionalservices.co.uk - there's always room for flexibility. PROFILE - COMPLIANCE/INFORMATION SECURITY CONSULTANT
Andrea Simmons, CISSP, CISM, MBCS CITP, M.Inst.ISP, BS7799 LA, BA (Mod) Hons, DHP (NC) Andrea is founder and director of Simmons Professional Services. Andrea has been building up her own compliance consultancy business over the last five years. 2008 holds further diversification with Andrea taking on Professional Development consultancy work - in recognition of the IT industry focus on the requirement to evidence and maintain professionalism. 2008 will also hold more writing of articles, chairing of seminars and putting together a chapter for a book on Resilience. More news on the latter to follow. 2007 saw some consolidation of effort as she took on the role of Security Forum Manager for the British Computer Society (www.bcs.org/security). The Security Forum seeks to focus on security issues at a strategic level and provides thought leadership for the industry. Andrea also works associatively with Socitm Consulting and Socitm Learning (www.socitm.gov.uk), in the public sector and the likes of Peapod (www.peapod.co.uk) and Amtec (www.amtec.co.uk) in the private sector. With a degree in Philosophy/Music and a diploma in Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy, Andrea’s expertise is in the human side of information management in business. She has been consulting with household name companies and public and private sector organisations on the human issues involved in Information Security Awareness training programmes, their development and effective delivery. Andrea believes passionately that more thought needs to be put into better ways of encouraging employee buy-in with regard to securing information holistically rather than only focusing on the IT Department as the hub of all information activities. This is particularly key with the more recent focus on Information/Corporate Governance, where the quality of information share is both crucially and legally important. Alongside the security strands - attaining the Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) accreditations, Andrea has also successfully undertaken the BS7799 Lead Auditor course (as was). Andrea has successfully undertaken both the British Computer Society/ISEB Certificate in Freedom of Information and the Certificate in Data Protection and is registered on the DP Experts Directory. She is also an active Associate member of the BCS and its’ relevant specialist groups – Security, Audit, Law – has been accepted onto the BCS Register of Security Specialists. Copies of past presentations are available upon request. Please contact Andrea via email on info@simmonsprofessionalservices.co.uk[ Back To Top ]
[ Back To Top ] Page last updated 28th April 2008
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