Ray Woodford
Ray Woodford is ISO 27001 Lead Auditor at SGS. He has a wealth of experience gathered from a vast range of roles carried out during 36 years in the IT business. Ray joined the SSC Team at SGS in 2012 and is the UK Product Manager for ISO 27001, ISO 22301 and ISO 20000. For the past three years with SGS Ray has been Lead Auditor for some of SGS’s major clients covering ISO 27001, C&CCC (Standard 55) and Adisa audits as well as carrying out an ISO 27001 Technical Review role for the past 18 months. Prior to joining SGS, Ray carried out a wide range of roles for Serco, Birmingham City Council and West Midlands County Council including ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 system implementation, Project Management, Bid Management, Due Diligence, Customer Service Management (Nottingham City and Lincolnshire County Council), Service Improvement Analysis, Quality and Information Security Consultancy, Incident Management, Risk Management and auditing ISO standards in the UK, Europe and Asia.
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Cyber-attacks have topped the list of biggest threats to business for the second year in a row, followed closely by data threats and an unexpected IT/telecoms outage – according to the fifth annual Horizon Scan Report published by the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) in association with BSI (British Standards Institution).
As these threats, coupled with a challenging and ever-changing business environment plague the worried minds of MDs and IT practitioners, it seems only...