Callum Baston
Consultant at Cerberex
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCallum Baston is a cybersecurity consultant with seven years’ experience specialising in IT/OT security, helping secure high-value industrial environments from FPSOs to renewable energy assets. At Abbott Risk Consulting he leads OT-focused vulnerability assessments and works across engineering, operations and IT to embed pragmatic security that aligns with safety and business priorities. His background spans penetration testing, secure software development and policy design, with hands-on roles from a software security internship at NCR to Technical Authority at Cerberex. He combines practical technical delivery—reducing support case analysis times by 93% in a prior role—with consultancy skills to make cyber resilience actionable for clients. Holding a BSc in Ethical Hacking and GICSP certification, he’s especially skilled at bridging the often-misaligned worlds of IT and OT to anticipate evolving threats.
7 years of coding experience
BSc (hons) Ethical Hacking, BSc (hons) Ethical Hacking at Abertay UniversityHigher National Diploma Cyber Security, Higher National Diploma Cyber Security at North East Scotland College
Github Skills (70)
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knowledge-management10
shell10
scriptable10
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blocker10
dnsmasq10
trilium10
knowledge-graph9
pentest9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
CallumBaston/CallumBaston.github.io
Nov 2018 - Jul 2020
This is the repo for my website
Contributions:124 commits, 4 PRs, 119 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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CallumBaston/multi-purpose-security-script
Jun 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:1 release, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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