Phil Huggins
Director (SCS2) at CISO Mentor
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPhil Huggins is a senior security and digital policy leader with 28+ years of experience and 11 years in formal technology roles, currently serving as Director and National Chief Information Security Officer for Health and Care at the UK Department of Health and Social Care. He has led high-profile programmes including CIO/CDO for NHS Test & Trace, interim National CISO for NHSX, and the Health & Social Care Cyber2 Programme, blending operational incident response with strategic cyber policy. His career spans building global cyber functions for Prudential, pioneering Security Science at Stroz Friedberg, and hands-on technical roles from @stake to DERA, giving him rare depth across technical, risk and executive domains. He also advises startups through CISO Mentor, sits on industry judging and advisory boards (SINET, Blackhat EU), and is the digital lead for the departmental Joint Investment Committee. Trained in forensic computing and major projects leadership (Oxford Saïd), Phil combines a practitioner’s technical pedigree with board-level governance and policy experience.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
EconSec101X Economics of Cybersecurity, EconSec101X Economics of Cybersecurity at Delft University of TechnologyBSc Archaeology, BSc Archaeology at Bournemouth UniversityMajor Projects Leadership Academy, Major Projects Leadership Academy at Saïd Business School, University of OxfordPGDip Archaeological Computing, PGDip Archaeological Computing at University of SouthamptonMSc Forensic Computing, MSc Forensic Computing at RMCS, Cranfield UniversityHigh School, High School at Corfe Hills
Github Skills (11)
taxonomy10
risk-assessment9
universe9
risk-analysis9
risk-management9
information-security8
security8
application-security2
open-source1
pdf1
collaboration1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
oracuk/oisru
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
Repository for the Open Information Security Risk Universe
Contributions:89 commits, 3 PRs, 88 pushes in 3 months
universesecurityriskrisk-assessmentrisk-analysis
oracuk/vsort
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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