Senior cybersecurity leadership for organisations ready to strengthen, evolve, or transform how security works.
Put decades of security leadership, operations, incident response, and transformation experience behind your next move.
Security requirements shift as organisations grow, enter new markets, adopt new technology, take on greater complexity, or raise their ambitions.
Cyber Increment brings senior experience to those moments of change, whether that means evolving the security strategy, transforming operations, strengthening leadership, or tackling a defined piece of work.
Cyber Increment provides senior cybersecurity leadership and advisory, including Fractional CISO leadership, security strategy, operational transformation, and strategic cybersecurity advisory.
The right crew for a clear endgame.
For a defined security challenge where experience can change the outcome, a focused engagement puts senior capability around the work without turning it into an eighteen-month consulting epic.
This could mean transforming a SOC, developing a security strategy and roadmap, improving operational monitoring, reviewing incident readiness, or designing a security operating model that fits where the organisation is heading.
An extra seat at the bridge.
Bring senior security leadership into the business at the level, pace, and commitment the role requires.
Dave works as part of the leadership team, taking ownership of security direction, translating business priorities into security priorities, leading programmes, supporting the board, and giving existing teams the senior backing they need.
Mission control for the hard calls.
For CISOs, founders, boards, and leadership teams who want experienced cybersecurity judgement around important decisions, without handing over ownership.
Bring Cyber Increment in to challenge a strategy, pressure-test a plan, work through a difficult decision, review an operating model, or add another senior perspective to a major programme.
Set security direction around the business, then turn it into something people can execute.
Security strategy and roadmaps, operating models, governance, board engagement, team leadership, and translating business direction into security priorities.
Build security operations that work at the scale and complexity your organisation demands.
SOC design and transformation, monitoring capability, operating processes, team structures, tooling strategy, and managed service models, informed by experience across enterprise, CNI, and MSSP environments.
Build the capability to make good decisions when conditions get difficult.
Incident response strategy, readiness, exercises, operating models, and decision-making, shaped by experience of ransomware, nation-state attacks, and major incidents at enterprise scale.
Experience across enterprise, CNI, and managed security, from building capability to leading it when it counts.
25+ years of cybersecurity experience, much of it spent making security work when the environment is complex and the stakes are real.
Dave has built and transformed security operations, led large multidisciplinary teams, worked across enterprise, CNI, and managed security, and held responsibility for programmes and budgets at £100m+ scale.
His experience spans the strategy room and the operational floor, including leading through ransomware, nation-state attacks, and major incidents.
Dave's Scot-Secure 2024 talk on incident response, blue-team capability, and lessons from real operational experience.
Dave's SteelCon 2026 look at what five years of change taught us about teams, tools, incidents, AI, supply chains, regulation, and resilience.
A conversation about virtual CISO leadership and what effective security looks like when organisations need senior capability.
Tell us where you're headed and where some extra XP could help.
