Emlyn Vaughan Edmunds

Highly skilled Cyber Security Architect with extensive experience designing and implementing secure enterprise architectures, leading security strategy, and identifying coverage gaps using threat modelling. Driving innovation in the cyber security landscape within the enterprise by going to market seeking new technologies and running RFIs, POVs and procuring new security capabilities with a view to operating new products to ensure maximum defence in depth strategy and being threat lead and reducing risk within the enterprise by identifying the next big thing.

Involved with the solution design board as a quorum member, ensuring new designs adhere to Unilever security standards, policies and standard building blocks.

A subject matter expert in network-based cybersecurity solutions, for network detection and response, Web application firewalls, and zero-trust models.

Using the NIST security framework to drive identification, detect and protect across complex cloud and on-prem environments.

Strong communicator with a proven record of guiding engineering teams, influencing senior stakeholders, and delivering resilient, scalable security solutions aligned to business goals.

• Threat modelling using the MITRE framework for coverage
• Product Reference Architecture
• Design solution boards - reviewing & approving LLDs
• Cisco SDWAN – Global Strategy Network Transformation Programme
• Data Centre migration – aligning and enforcing security standards, policies and controls
• Vendor engagement to drive innovation and roadmaps
• Zscaler solutions and technologies - Zero Trust ZIA and Zone-based cloud firewall
• Exception to policy approver – ETP 1, 3, 6 months approval
• Security Standard group - Reviewing standards.
• Network Detection Response
• Email security

• Lead IT analyst in the EMEA Enterprise Computing Team for projects, site support for P1 incidents and offering technical assistance and help for the internal EMEA IT team members as a escalation point. My role was to bridge and work in collaboration with the USA & ASIA teams, ensuring European and company standards/regulations are adhered to. 10% of my time involves European travel to the EMEA sites to deploy, configure and test new IBM flex chassis, blades servers and SAN’s, also to deliver network refresh projects which includes replacement of L3 core distribution & L2 Client Access switches. I have the ownership and day to day maintenance and administration of VMWare EMEA virtual environment, EMEA Veeam backup and recovery, NetApp storage, network configuration changes on L2 and L3 switches, Cisco Firewalls. Liaising and collaborating with various teams across the global operation, for example running test pilots with security team for new software and evaluations, working in collaboration with USA networking team to roll out a new standard.
• Supporting & Administrating VMWare v6.0 & 6.5 EMEA virtual estate
• Supporting & Administrating VMWare Horizon View 7
• Supporting & Administrating Veeam Backup and Recovery 10
• Supporting & Administrating NET APP storage filers
• Supporting & Administrating Cisco UCS servers
• Supporting & Administrating IBM Flex server & V3700 SANs
• Deploy, configure and test new IBM Flex chassis, SAN v3700 SAN
• Deploy, configure and test Cisco distribution switches & L2 switches
• Supporting & Administrating Windows 2003/2008/2012R2/2016 & Active directory
• Supporting & Administrating Palo Alto device for web filtering
• Supporting & Administrating Cisco switches L3 & L2
• Supporting & Administrating Cisco prime WIFI
• Firewall management of Cisco ASA
• Change Control member for EMEA region in weekly CAB meetings
• Team member of Patch management and security scanner administration

• Senior engineer offering 3rd line support, managing projects and responsible for IT security and infrastructure which supports 22,000+ end users with over 500 offices and stores with 100+ servers running Wintel on VMware 5.5. Having the ownership and responsibility for IT security, ensuring effective defence in depth strategy across the IT infrastructure – public and private facing. Also supporting and administrating the Data Centre sites in Leeds. The main objective is to ensure all the systems are online within the 5 99999’s and any downtime is planned, managed and deployed within the scheduled maintenance windows.
• Responsibility & ownership for company IT security - Defence in Depth Strategy, End point security, security assessments and vulnerabilities.
• Responsibility for company IT security
• Supporting & maintaining PCI DSS regulations
• Supporting & Administrating McAfee Intel Firewalls with VPN access
• Supporting & Administrating McAfee Endpoint security including Drive encryption, DLP and web control, TIE and Data Exchange Layer
• Supporting & Administrating McAfee Web and Email gateway SaaS
• Managing, configuring and administrating McAfee IPS
• Liaising with third party Security companies for Pen Tests – Sec1, AN security
• Providing Monthly security reports to IT manager
• User awareness policies – handbooks, training
• Patch management – WSUS deployment, configuring and testing
• Supporting & Administrating Citrix Share file – data exchange with 3rd parties
• Supporting & Administrating Windows 2003/2008/2012R2 & Active directory
• DHCP, DNS, IIS, Remote & routing, Cisco routers VPN & TMG servers
• Supporting & Administrating Exchange 2007
• Supporting & Administrating VMWare servers using V Centre and Vcops
• Supporting & Administrating Cisco Meraki switches and AP’s, Dashboard
• Supporting & Administrating Remote Desktop Gateway and RD Farm
• Supporting & Administrating HP Servers & SANs 3 Parr & Left hand storage 4500, 4300
• Supporting & Administrating Load Balancers
• Managing, configuring and administrating Cisco switches – VLAN tagging, port assignments
• TCP/IP networking and troubleshooting – Wire shark
• Performing Budgetary cost saving analysis & implementation projects
• Accomplished in setting/meeting deadlines, planning, delivering & managing projects
• Forecasting any needed technical improvements and technical roadmaps
• Maintaining Business Relationships with third party Vendors e.g. BT, Ricoh

• Principle engineer offering 3rd line support and managing a team of 5 IT helpdesk technicians/engineers which supports the IT infrastructure and telephony systems. Delivering support within SLA to over 250 end user network across 10 remote offices with over 100+ servers running Wintel and Sun Solaris platforms. Also supporting and administrating our Data Centre sites in London which are hosted by SunGard. Maintaining and supporting our call centre in Chester for telephony operations and VOIP to our remote offices.
• The main objective is to ensure all the systems are online within the 5 99999’s and any downtime is planned, managed and deployed within the scheduled maintenance windows.
• The Day to day tasks includes pro-active checks which are server monitoring and performance, auditing systems and security logs, physical Comm’s rooms audit.
• Supporting & Administrating Windows 2000/XP/2003/2008/2012R2 & Active directory
• DHCP, DNS, IIS, Remote & routing, Cisco routers VPN & ISA servers
• Responsibility for company IT security - Defence in Depth Strategy, End point security
• Supporting & Administrating Active Directory – User access permissions, GPO
• Supporting & maintaining PCI DSS regulations
• Liaising with third party Security companies for Pen Tests – Sec1, NCC, KPMG
• Providing Monthly security reports to Risk committee
• Supporting & Administrating Exchange 2003/2013
• Supporting & Administrating VMWare servers Citrix Xen server & Hyper-V
• Supporting & Administrating Citrix, MS Terminal services, and RDP
• Supporting & Administrating HP Servers, Switches & SANs
• Backup and disaster recovery plans
• Patch management – WSUS deployment, configuring and testing
• TCP/IP networking and troubleshooting – Wire shark
• Performing Budgetary cost saving analysis & implementation projects
• Accomplished in setting/meeting deadlines, planning, delivering & managing projects
• Responsibility for company IT security
• Forecasting any needed technical improvements and technical roadmaps
• Maintaining Business Relationships with third party Vendors e.g. SunGard, Vodafone, Sec-1

• Reporting directly to the IT manager for the day to day and project tasks and the support of the internal network infrastructure which spans over 3 locations comprising of 120 users. Provision of hands on and telephone support for desktops, remote laptop users, server and network infrastructure. The organisation supports a number of various operating systems which are Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/2003, Linux Red hat & AS400 systems.
• Supporting Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/2003 Servers & Workstations
• Supporting & Administrating Lotus Notes clients/server 5 & 6, iNotes & Outlook 97/2000
• Supporting & Administrating AS400 clients & servers
• Supporting & Administrating Mail sweeper server

• Responsible for administration and support for 40 end user networks consisting of 5 servers and 40 workstations running Windows NT 4.0, 2000 and XP platforms in a multiple domain environment. Solely responsible for technical support for Tacit UK office which I have gained skills in
• DHCP, WINS, DNS, Proxy, IIS, Remote & routing, Cisco routers VPN & ISA servers
• Maintaining Remote & Routing access to internal LAN & multiple domains
• Migrating Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000
• Supporting & administrating Windows NT, 2000 & XP workstations/servers
• Supporting & administrating Lotus Notes/Domino R4.6, R5.01, R5.08 & R5.10
• Updating virus software on servers & workstation – service patches, virus signatures updates

• Responsible for testing and repair of data acquisition cards, 386, 486, 586 processor products also part time IT administrative role on test and main Windows NT network. My duties were
• Providing support for Windows 3.11/95/98/NT, MS Office 97 & DOS 6.22
• Networking – Hubs, Thin Ethernet & Cat 5 installations
• Faultfinding on PCs and EPOS systems
• Using fault diagnostic software – Amidiags, Norton Diagnostics & Check it