Naushad Hunter
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) & CISO at AcuityGroup Ltd
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNaushad Hunter is a seasoned cyber security leader and CISO/Enterprise SOC Engineer with nine years focused on building and running global security operations, incident response, and SIEM-driven monitoring from London. He has steered security strategy and hands-on engineering across startups and enterprises—serving as interim CISO, vCISO, head of cyber engineering, and Red Team specialist—while shaping ISMS/ISO27001, GDPR, risk and audit programs. Naushad blends technical escalation and toolset capacity management with people leadership, growing high-performing security teams and influencing executive crisis committees. His background spans practical adversary emulation through to governance, giving him a rare end-to-end view of protecting IT assets and delivering secure customer onboarding at scale. Notably, he pairs academic study in computer science and cyber criminology with two decades of varied international experience, which informs a pragmatic, risk-first approach to defence.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Information Security Fundamentals (ISF) Webmaster, Hi-Tech Squad Programming, Associate's degree, Information Security Fundamentals (ISF) Webmaster, Hi-Tech Squad Programming at The University of OsakaMSc: Master of Cyber Criminology, Cyber Security, MSc: Master of Cyber Criminology, Cyber Security at Bond UniversityMaster's degree, Cyber/Electronic Operations and Warfare, Master's degree, Cyber/Electronic Operations and Warfare at Northumbria UniversityComputer Science, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Computer Science, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Stanford University
Github Skills (18)
security10
ctf9
javascript9
application-security9
hacking9
owasp9
pentesting9
android-application9
reverse-engineering8
mobile-application8
network-analysis8
static-analysis7
ios7
android7
dynamic-analysis7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Naushad007/oss2018
May 2018 - Jan 2019
Open Security Summit 2018
Contributions:34 pushes in 8 months
securitysummit
Naushad007/owasp-summit-2017
May 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:16 pushes in 11 months
securitysummitowasp
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