2021 Global CEO Excellence Awards

36 CEO MONTHLY / GLOBAL CEO EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2021 CEO MONTHLY / GLOBAL CEO EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2021 37 , , Most Innovative Cyber Security CEO 2021: Ian Mann In a fast-growing, vast industry, ECSC has been developing as a full-service cyber security provider for over 20 years. Let’s look at what ECSC does and how its CEO, IanMann, has helped it to progress and stay elevated even throughout a globally difficult time. ECSC Group plc was founded in 2000 and has now become the UK’s longest running, full-service cyber security service provider. It offers an extensive range of in-house developed proprietary technologies, including advanced Artificial Intelligence systems. ECSC offers its services with a consultancy approach that extends your current expertise and technologies, so that you may rest assured your information is safe and secure. It has helped clients in over 20 countries to recover from incidents, enhance their cyber security, and gain a range of information and cyber security certifications. It supports its clients by utilising its in-house technology to create bespoke solutions to meet every need. It provides expert security breach prevention and advisory support to organisations across all sectors. Operating from two Security Operations Centres - one in Yorkshire, UK, and the other in Brisbane, Australia – ECSC offers flexible 24/7/365 cyber security monitoring, detection, and response support to its clients, either as a fully managed service, or to enhance an organisation’s existing cyber security systems. Consequently, ECSC creates a protected environment for stored information. In addition, ECSC’s Assurance division provides guidance, certification to industry standards, and extensive testing services to allow organisations to assess their cyber security protection. All of its consultants are extremely qualified, and its minimum qualification is the Certified Information Systems Security Professional. In addition, all ECSC specialists are Payment Card Industry Security Assessors, and its ISO 27001 specialists have all passed the ISO 27001 Lead Auditor examination, so you can be sure that you are in the right hands. Priding itself on its 90% plus staff retention, ECSC has developed long lasting relationships with its employees as well as its customers who keep coming back for its cyber security services. This has been done by working closely with each individual need, be it for employees or clients. Moreover, ECSC consultants are regularly quoted in the media, such as via The BBC, SC Magazine, Computer Weekly and Director Magazine. The pandemic has had a huge impact on the online world. As each country fluctuated through its own variations of lockdown, organisations shifted employees to working remotely, many facilitated this with accelerating their cloud migrations. As most of the breaches ECSC respond to originate in cloud projects, it witnessed a growth of breaches in general. Ian Mann is the CEO and Founder of the cyber security Best IT Consulting Business Leader (Mid-Atlantic USA): Jacob Plummer The Plummer Group is a certifiedminority and service-disabled veteran owned small business. It provides its clients with the most innovative solutions possible, through unique and technical methods. Offering integrity, respect, and professionalism, it takes over 25 years of experience to deliver exceptional customer service and quality assurance. CEO and Founder, Jacob Plummer tells us more about his journey. Founded in 2019 in Virginia, USA, The Plummer Group offers technology solutions to federal and commercial sectors through Enterprise Resource Planning and Test Automation. It is focused on meeting the needs of the military industry through well designed technological systems. As an Enterprise Technology Consulting firm, The Plummer Group provides technology lifecycle support from blueprint and design through to development and implementation, deployment, and sustainment to customers in both the private and public marketplace. Its core services are technology solutions, logistics and training from functional and technical cross- industry experts. With an expert background, The Plummer Group emits a powerful and comprehensive knowledge that its clients can trust. Its team of experts use the latest technologies to help clients successfully achieve their organizational goals and visions. These solutions cover system design, integration, and configuration management. It offers full lifecycle SAP support as well as acceptance, functional, and regression testing. The Group also provides logistics and sourcing through supply chain management, temporary staffing services and operational support across warehouse May21048 May21036 consultancy firm. With over 20 years of experience in the cyber security sector, he established a Cisco Networking Academy for Dixons City Technology College prior to founding ECSC. Ian’s professional qualifications include CISSP, PCI QSA and ISO Lead Auditor, and he holds a a B.Eng. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Nottingham, and an MBA from the Open University. However, his dedication to furthering his own knowledge and expertise did not stop there. By writing the acclaimed social engineering texts, Hacking the Human: Social Engineering Techniques and Security Countermeasures, and Hacking the Human II: The Adventures of a Social Engineer, he has created a name for himself in the industry as a leading mind committed to sharing his expertise. Indeed, part of ECSC’s goal is to increase knowledge and awareness surrounding cyber security. Ian regularly hosts events that are free for anyone to attend. This is so that the topics may be discussed and understood in line with industry standards and news, so that clients and potential clients can be as informed as possible. These events have continued throughout the pandemic, as webinars, because nothing can stop ECSC from creating a safe and secure plan for its clients. Contact: Ian Mann Web Address: www.ecsc.co.uk management systems, inventory management, and its sourcing and procurement. Lastly, it works with its clients to introduce training and assessment strategies, instructional system design, curriculum and materials development, web-based learning development and delivery and learning management systems. Founder and CEO, Jacob Plummer brings with him nearly three decades of experience and expertise in his fields. He currently works for IBM/ IT Partners, Inc. on a NAVY ERP project in the defence sector. There, he serves as an ERP Solutions Expert and is responsible for design and defect resolutions, sustainment support, and enhancement developments. As a disabled veteran, Jacob believes in serving his country and supporting its war fighters through outstanding program delivery that meets the needs of a diverse customer base and by providing exceptional employment opportunities. He has worked with a number of large names across different sectors such as Northrop Grumman, Deloitte Consulting, and Nestle Purina Petcare. Having proudly served in the United States Army as an Automated Logistics Specialist, Jacob demonstrated leadership in Logistics Management, Procurement, Inventory Management, and Strategic and Operational support. Academically, Jacob has an MA in Information Technology Project Management and a BA in Technical Management. This means that he has the ability to guide all of his clients through their projects with a rich knowledge and passion for the industry. Jacob’s leadership style is based on influence. “Success is largely dependent on the ability to manage relationships,” he explains. “Knowing how to engage and influence people on various levels in the organization and manage teams based on strengths versus weaknesses provides obvious advantages. I like stability and order, but I also employ a diplomatic and relationship-oriented approach to leading my teams. It’s important to me that everyone in my organization feels that they can bring their authentic self to work every day. I want to create a space where my pioneers and drivers can feel free to drive innovative solutions. “At The Plummer Group, we use a combination of Marketing and CRM tools to develop a capture strategy that allow us to identify organizations where our services can provide value to their current operations,” Jacob continues. “Outsourced IT and logistics solutions are quickly becoming a vital part of today’s competitive business environment. Major trends affecting business spending include virtual work environments, the Cloud, social media, mobility, and the proliferation of data storage and security needs”. For small and mid-sized businesses, as well as government agencies, it is important to have especially web-based systems that can handle every task that they must carry out. This can’t always be done with their internal IT departments, and The Plummer Group is here to help. Throughout the pandemic and various lockdowns, organizations have been forced to adapt to working remotely. IT systems need to be adaptable, flexible, and reliable for this to not be a detrimental situation for all kinds of businesses. Cybersecurity is needed now more than ever, and it has become a booming market. For the future, The Plummer Group will further develop a comprehensive marketing plan in order to generate sales on a local, regional, and even national level for its services. A multi- pronged marketing strategy will help to achieve strong brand recognition. This goal will be achieved through a combination of traditional and internet-based initiatives. It will also focus on establishing and maintaining strong customer relations, while leveraging their many existing industry contacts in the government, military, IT, and logistics fields. Contact: Jacob Plummer Web Address: www.theplummergroup.com