Summary
Naushad 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
MSc: Master of Cyber Criminology, MSc: Master of Cyber Criminology at Bond University
Master's degree, Master's degree at Northumbria University
Associate's degree, Associate's degree at 大阪大学 Osaka University Japan
Computer Science, Computer Science at Stanford University