Scott Nicholson

Scott Nicholson, Delivery Director at Bridewell Consulting.

He is an experienced Cyber Security and Privacy leader that has operated across public and private sector organisations globally. Scott is Bridewell's Delivery Leader and brings a significant amount of experience within the information security and data privacy profession. He also provides security leadership services and operates as Data Protection Officer (DPO) across a number of our key clients in different industries. He is also a Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP) with the IAPP and actively involved in driving privacy improvements in the industry. He has delivered security and privacy solutions on a global scale within a number of sectors such as central government, police, financial services, retail, oil and gas and has also worked with a number of software development companies, cloud service providers and some of the largest hosting companies in the world. He is responsible for the delivery and growth of our Cyber Security, Information Security and Assurance, Privacy, Penetration Testing and managed security services portfolio. He has operated across a number of industries providing a vast mixture of leadership and hands on technical delivery of solutions to deliver compliance programmes such as ISO27001:2013, PCI DSS, NIST, Cyber Essentials Scheme, PSN, PSNP and CESG (now NCSC) guidance. He is extremely passionate about cyber/information security and privacy, in particular when it comes to delivering a high quality service for Bridewell’s clients both when he is involved in delivery of a service himself or when he is overseeing members of the Bridewell team. He has spoken at various security and privacy events across the UK, written a number of published articles on key concerns in the industry and was also part of an important cloud security publication in the Sunday Times