Cyber Resilience
Risk assessment, incident response planning, business continuity, disaster recovery, and operational readiness.
Cyber Professional • Technology Delivery • Operational Resilience
I bring together 30+ years in technology, 15+ years in project delivery, postgraduate cybersecurity study, and leadership in the cybersecurity community through WiCyS Sydney.
About
I am a cybersecurity and technology delivery professional with experience across banking, insurance, telecommunications, education, retail, and small business environments.
My work has included cloud and infrastructure transformation, disaster recovery, operational resilience, identity and access governance, cyber security uplift, regulatory programs, and secure technology delivery.
Focus areas
Risk assessment, incident response planning, business continuity, disaster recovery, and operational readiness.
Embedding cyber risk, identity, logging, monitoring, backup, and resilience controls into delivery from the start.
Program and project leadership across cloud, infrastructure, mainframe, application, and cyber initiatives.
Clear reporting, governance packs, stakeholder engagement, and translating technical risk into business impact.
Portfolio
This portfolio is designed to demonstrate practical cyber skills beyond a traditional CV.
A practical toolkit to help small businesses understand cyber risk and improve resilience. It will include a cyber health check, incident response template, backup and recovery checklist, vendor risk checklist, and executive cyber summary.
Skills shown: GRC • risk assessment • incident response • business communication
A realistic case study showing how security controls should be embedded into a cloud migration, including IAM, logging, encryption, network segmentation, monitoring, backup, DR, and operational handover.
Skills shown: cloud security • delivery governance • control mapping • resilience planning
A case-study style article exploring identity transformation, privileged access, resilience, monitoring, and security governance when modernising mission-critical legacy platforms.
Skills shown: mainframe awareness • cloud transformation • operational risk • security governance
A sample set of delivery artefacts for governing a cyber initiative, including a program charter, RAID log, stakeholder map, risk register, roadmap, metrics dashboard, and board update.
Skills shown: program management • governance • stakeholder engagement • executive reporting
Services
Services may be provided through Thia-W Computing Solutions.
Practical reviews of small business cyber risks, including MFA, backups, access control, devices, and incident readiness.
Project and program delivery support for cyber, infrastructure, resilience, governance, and transformation initiatives.
Clear, accessible cyber awareness content for non-technical audiences, community groups, and small business teams.
Community
I support the growth of the Women in CyberSecurity community in Sydney by helping create opportunities for connection, learning, visibility, and professional development.
I am especially interested in helping career changers, mature professionals, project managers, governance professionals, and technical practitioners see a place for themselves in cybersecurity.
Contact
I am open to roles and opportunities in cybersecurity, cyber resilience, governance, technology delivery, infrastructure transformation, and security program management.
Website: cynthiawilkinson.com.au
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Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia