About Nick Savage

Bio

Dr Nick Savage has over 25 years of experience in cybersecurity and is currently the Head of Infrastructure, Security and Compliance at Searchlight Cyber. Nick is responsible for Searchlight’s governance and compliance and this involves maintaining Searchlight’s Information Security Management System. At Searchlight, Nick ensures that their systems and processes are compliant with the UK’s Cyber Essentials scheme, ISO270001: 2022 and the Common Criteria in SOC 2. Prior to joining Searchlight, Nick was the Head of the School of Computing at the University of Portsmouth, where he led a team of approximately 100 staff and researchers and participated in large UK and EU cyber security projects such as Foresight and CyberTrust. As a part of this, Nick was recognized for his contributions to cybersecurity by a special award from IBM. Between 2016 and 2021 Nick was a member (eventually vice-chair) of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing in the United Kingdom and worked with the UK Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance in the Cabinet Office to embed cybersecurity into the curriculum of computer science degrees. Nick has also been a speaker for the UK’s NCSC CyberFirst program, a keynote speaker for various international conferences and for industry events run by ESET and Accenture. Nick was a member of the DG CONNECT Working Group developing the EU Directive 2016/1148 on the NIS Platform. Nick has been an academic advisor to the UK’s Commonwealth Scholarship Commission and an Academic Advocate for ISACA; reviewing CISA, CISM and CoBIT 4.0. Nick is a Fellow of the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT and a Chartered Engineer (CEng).