ADAM MISIEWICZ
cyber security executive
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about me
my biography
My name is Adam, and I’m based in Canberra, Australia.
I have almost 20 years’ work experience across the Australian federal government and commercial sector. I have worked in various analytical, operational and advisory roles as a public servant, and as a consultant with KPMG, Accenture and ASG Group. I am currently the General Manager for Cyber Security at Vectiq. I have an interest in capability development, innovation, cloud technology and cyber security.
I have several passions. These include helping clients understand their most valued assets and how to protect them, helping senior executives minimise enterprise risk, and providing guidance on how to drive more value out of cyber security investments across the enterprise.
My primary focus is to help clients gain exceptional results, and to continuously deliver value that makes an impact. I stand by maintaining a high level of integrity and being radically transparent with my clients. I believe this is the best way to do business and leads to long-standing relationships. These make up some of my core principles.
Reach me on LinkedIn or via email adam.misiewicz@vectiq.com.au.
WHAT I DO
CYBER SERVICES
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BASIC PREPARATION
COMPLIANCE ASSESSMENT
Compliance and maturity assessments are a first step toward measuring your security.
This service is targeted towards CISOs, CIOs and system owners who are looking to understand gaps, vulnerabilities and risks across existing systems in production, or those about to 'go live'. The output of this assessment is a report, which can feed into a remediation plan and cyber security strategy.
These assessments are performed against the Australian Government Information Security Manual (ISM) and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) Essential Eight.
GAIN CONFIDENCE
ASD IRAP ASSESSMENT
An IRAP assessment helps you to understand and implement security controls and recommendations to protect your systems and critical assets.
The assessments are geared towards high value assets, cloud services, gateways, and systems that hold data of a OFFICIAL: Sensitive, PROTECTED or a SECRET classification. The focus of assessments is to determine the implementation and operational effectiveness of security controls.
IRAP assessments are performed against the ISM and are formalised with a detailed report report and accompanying system security plan annex.
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ENHANCE RESILIENCE
STRATEGY AND rOADMAP
Strategies and roadmaps are intended to help organisations achieve their objectives.
A useful cyber strategy should consider your organisation's current and desired state. The strategy should take into account enterprise risk, pressure points, funding, business priorities. and key performance indicators. The output of this work is a report, roadmap and high level costings to help your organisation take actionable steps.
This service is delivered in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders, and is performed using a proven and tested methodology.
PREVENTIVE MEASURES
RANSOMWARE READINESS
Prevention is always better than a cure. These assessments are now considered essential.
A Ransomware Readiness Assessment (RAA) is a short desktop survey. It is designed to assess an organisation’s capabilities, procedures, and ability to mitigate the impact of a ransomware incident should it ever occur to your organisation.
The output of this work is a short report and dashboard highlight strengths, weaknessess and recommendations for improvement. The RAA is based on the guidance from the US Cyber Security & Infrastructure Security Agency.
REDUCING RISKS
SECURE SYSTEM DELIVERY
System delivery involve balancing business objectives and security requirements together to ensure a balanced approach during development.
This service is designed to help organisations understand and implement security activities during each stage of the secure system development life cycle (SSDLC). My version of the SSDLC has been updated with the advice from NIST, OWASP and the ISM to ensure systems are delivered securely.
The service is targeted towards project managers that require ongoing support during the design, development and deployment of systems.
EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE
BOARD ADVISORY SERVICES
Board members play a critical role in securing their organisation and protecting shareholder interests.
Effective governance requires that board members ask the right questions of management, spot the red flags in how cyber security risks are being managed, promote a culture of cyber resilience and prepare and respond to significant cyber security incidents.
This service is tailored to client and is intended to help address the most pressing issues inside the board room to strengthen risk management.
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testimonials
the press
Over the years, I've had the pleasure of working with a range of clients, colleagues and technology partners. In the cyber security world, not many clients are willing to be named. But here are a select few taken from my LinkedIn page, and also available to be viewed here.
"Adam is a distinguished and trusted cyber professional, renowned for his expertise in cyber security. With a deep understanding of digital threats and robust defense strategies, he adeptly protects sensitive data and systems. His commitment has earned him respect in the tech and cyber community."
nathan cook - koch & marsden
24 November, 2023
" Adam has been a great colleague who showed a solid understanding of cyber security and how this important topic impacts operating models... As a colleague it was impressive to observe and learn from Adam's ability to engage with customers and partners at all levels. Adam is very professional in his conduct and approach and a trusted advisor to those he interacted with."
GREGOR BRESSER - ASG GROUP
2 November, 2022
"After an expert in Cyber Security? Adam is definitely the person you need. He's not just an expert in Essential 8, NIST, ISM iRAP, ISO27001 and the other security standards. He is also a great communicator and person. Equally capable in both sales and delivery roles. Pleasure to work with."
SEAN CHAMBERLIN - ASG GROUP
19 October, 2022
STREET CRED
CERTIFICATIONS
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DELIVERING VALUE
PRICING
I am available for ad-hoc consulting, workshops, short term engagements and longer term projects.
I am happy to perform work on a time & materials basis, and can also provide fixed price delivery to provide you with pricing certainty. Short term projects are typically engagements of less than six months.
The pricing below is an indicator and is subject to scope, requirements, duration, risk and deliverables. The pricing below excludes GST.
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