Micky Gough
Principal Cyber Security Officer at Department of Justice (Tasmania)
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Top SchoolMicky Gough is a Principal Cyber Security Officer based in Hobart with over a decade of hands-on experience blending security leadership, incident response and systems engineering. He has led ISMS development, risk management and security improvement programs for government and enterprise, including acting as CISO for the Department of Justice (Tasmania). Technically fluent in penetration testing, Linux system administration, automation (Puppet/Ansible) and scripting (BASH, Python, PHP), he bridges people, process and architecture to deliver pragmatic, auditable security outcomes. A GIAC Advisory Board member and high-scoring GPEN holder who is studying for CISSP, he pairs deep technical credentials with formal ISO 27001 auditing expertise. Notably, his background stretches back to infrastructure and platform roles where he built monitoring and configuration-auditing tools, reflecting a preference for building durable, automatable controls rather than one-off fixes.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Senior Certificate, Senior Certificate at Bremer State High SchoolRH436 Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management, RH436 Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management at Red Hat TrainingGraduate Certificate, Cyber security, GPA 7.0, Graduate Certificate, Cyber security, GPA 7.0 at Charles Sturt UniversityGIAC GPEN, SEC560 Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking, 95%, GIAC GPEN, SEC560 Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking, 95% at SANS InstituteShort Course, Digital Forensics (Updated), High Distinction (100%), Short Course, Digital Forensics (Updated), High Distinction (100%) at IT MastersElectrical Engineering - Computer Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering - Computer Systems Engineering at The University of QueenslandShort Course, Cryptography, High Distinction (95%), Short Course, Cryptography, High Distinction (95%) at IT Masters (CSU)ITIL v3 Foundations, ITIL v3 Foundations at ITIL TrainingGrad. Dip. Ministry, Theological and Ministerial Studies, Grad. Dip. Ministry, Theological and Ministerial Studies at Australian College of TheologyISO 27001 Lead Auditor, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor at BSI Training Academy
Github Skills (28)
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lua8
modsecurity8
waf8
lgbt7
negotiation7
autosuggest6
pdf6
scrape6
cjk6
high-performance5
php-library5
broken-links5
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mickygough/threatinfo
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
A BASH script to automate threat intel lookups for single IPs
Contributions:12 commits, 18 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 4 months
ipsintelbashbash-scriptthreat
mickygough/spiderfoot
Sep 2023 - Jan 2024
SpiderFoot automates OSINT for threat intelligence and mapping your attack surface.
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 months
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