Keeping attackers out and auditors happy
I'm Abiola, a cyber security engineer in Oxford. I catch threats before they become headlines, build security into delivery pipelines, and make audit season a lot less scary. Off the clock, I break things (with permission) and help train the AI models everyone's talking about.
Ongoing
AI model training and evaluation
Freelance AI training and evaluation work through Outlier and TELUS Digital, plus a recently completed project through Mercor. I help make AI models more accurate, useful, and safe.
Ongoing
Penetration testing consultancy
Independent penetration testing as a freelance consultant, backed by more than two years of managing and delivering an annual penetration testing programme in-house.
In development
Xcevia: a security consultancy in the making
A practitioner-led security consultancy for UK SMEs that I'm building on the side. It's not trading yet. The groundwork is being laid for Cyber Essentials Plus readiness, cloud security, and DevSecOps support.
Cutting security tooling costs by 60% while widening coverage
A vendor review at a UK health-tech company. I consolidated onto one platform that covers every operating system and the cloud, then closed the one remaining gap with a dedicated patch management tool.
Incident response and endpoint security in health tech
Owning day-to-day alert handling across a multi-OS estate at a UK health-tech company, correlating cloud activity with endpoint telemetry, and leading the response to a live, high-severity security incident.
Embedding SAST into CI/CD pipelines
Adding static application security testing (SAST) to a health-tech company's delivery pipelines, so developers find code-level vulnerabilities before release rather than after.
Cyber Essentials Plus, ISO 27001 and security governance
Preparing the organisation for Cyber Essentials Plus certification, running the annual penetration testing programme, and keeping security policy, BCP/DR and awareness training aligned with ISO 27001 and GDPR.
EchoCare: a digital complaint management system for home care
An Innovate UK funded feasibility study and proof of concept with PBL Care Limited and Birmingham City University. The system replaces paper-based complaint handling with CQC-standard digital forms, NLP classification, and a live dashboard.