Who We Are
Committed to Excellence
We are based in London, and our team is comprised of renowned cyber security practitioners with an average 15+ years of experience in Britain's public and private sector industries. We work closely with our extended security expert networks in Dublin, Singapore, New York, Dubai and California to exchange information ensuring our security defence strategies are ahead of evolving cyber threats. The security threat landscape is changing rapidly, and we like to stay one step ahead.
Our experienced security consultants are further supported by an extended 24x7 team of security analysts and subject matter experts based in India. Our Security Operation Centre (SOC) in India is accredited with ISO27001 to demonstrate the fact that our people, process and technology are closely aligned to a well-recognised international standard.
Leadership Team
Soumen Paul
Founder & Managing Director
Soumen has over 18 years of security experience, and passion for information security. Soumen led delivery of information security in large transformation programmes (£200m to £2bn) comprising of end-to-end systems, applications, network, data, telecom, industrial control systems, safety systems, global data centre networks, private/public cloud, and end-user products in large global enterprises and service provider environments. Soumen has extensive experience in delivering and managing Cyber Security Operation Centre (CSOC).
Soumen holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng) degree in Electrical and Electronics along with CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CISA, CSSLP qualifications. Soumen founded iCyberDefence in 2017 with like-minded security professionals to help solving today’s cyber security challenges.
Aaron Shone
Lead Security Architect
Aaron has over 18 years of experience working in the cyber security domain spanning major sporting events, pharmaceuticals, Critical National Infrastructure, financial and defence industries. He combines deep technical knowledge of cyber security practice with pragmatic, business-focused risk management. He is a full member of the IISP, holds the CISSP ISSAP qualification, and is a former UK CLAS consultant. Aaron brings practical experience from all areas of information/IT security management to solve today’s cyber security challenges.
Vince Warrington
Lead Governance, Risk Management & Compliance
Vince has over 17 years’ experience in cyber security and information protection in both the public and private sectors, and has been granted the UK’s highest level of Security Clearance. He helped to build the Cyber Resilience Tool used by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, allowing the regulator to measure the cyber resilience capabilities of companies in the financial sector. He is also a member of the UK’s Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC) whose mission is to advance Information Assurance and ensure that the UK is a robust, resilient and secure digital society. It is involved with developing policy recommendations to government and corporate leaders at the highest levels. He has consulted on cyber security matters to a wide range of sectors, including central government, finance, pharmaceutical, consumer goods and the energy sector. He is frequently asked to speak at conferences, both in the UK and internationally, and is often called upon by the media to provide information and coverage on cyber security issues.
Diptesh Saha
Lead - Managed Security Services (Redington & Ensure Services)
Diptesh has over 14 years experience, and is associated with Redington and Ensure past 11 years handling different Profiles in Enterprise portfolio. Starting 2016 Diptesh was mandated to drive the Managed Security Services initiative for the organisation and presently heading the Cyber Security and Managed Services Practice.
Prior to joining Redington Diptesh was associated with NextGen Communication, Aditya Birla Group and Cybernet Software as Engineer and Consultant in Enterprise Networking and Security Portfolio.
Advisory Board
Deepak Kumaraswamy
Deepak grew up in India and worked at Zoho Corporation as Member Leadership staff for their technical operations department. He later moved to the UK in 2005 and worked with Mimecast as their Vice President of Technical Operations and was a key figure in the company’s journey to becoming a global cloud-based email platform. Deepak currently works for Garrison Technology as VP of Technical Operations.
With over 20 years’ experience in the cyber-tech industry, Deepak has extensive knowledge of developing and delivering advanced technology solutions for cloud environments. His innovative approach to cyber security puts him at the forefront of the technology industry.