James S.
Castleford, West Yorkshire · Founder and Principal Consultant · IS Centurion Consulting Services Ltd
Loughborough University
About
Jim James S. is a strategic cyber risk and control consultant with over 35 years of experience across diverse sectors including defence, banking, insurance, and retail. He specializes in cyber risk, governance, control effectiveness, and audit readiness, aligning controls to industry standards such as ISO27001, PCI DSS, and NIST CSF. Jim brings a practical, evidence-based approach to strengthening governance and delivering sustainable improvements. He has engaged with board-level, regulatory, and senior stakeholders in complex and regulated settings.
Skills
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF)
- NIST SP 800-53
- NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF)
- CIS 18 Critical Security Controls
- ISO/IEC 27001
- PCI DSS
- Qualitative, quantitative and FAIR-informed risk management
- Qualys
- Tenable
- SentinelOne
25 skills in total
Experience
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Founder and Principal Consultant
IS Centurion Consulting Services Ltd
Apr 2018 — Present
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Specialist Information and Cyber Security Risk Consultant
Grant Thornton Agile Talent Team
Dec 2022 — Sep 2024
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Interim Head of Information Security, Business Continuity and Technology Risk
Virgin Money PLC
Oct 2018 — Nov 2019
10 experiences in total
Education
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Loughborough University
MSc, Security Management
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