Seamus Reilly, a senior director of Ernst & Young's technology and security risk services (TSRS) practice has been appointed as head of the information security for NEMIA region.

This region is made up of Northern Europe (includes UK), Middle East, India and Africa

Reilly specialises in telecommunications, corporate security and controls, IT due diligence, risk analysis, and information and network security and has 16 years security experience.

In his previous roles he has covered corporate business risk analysis, secure infrastructure design, business continuity planning and exercising among other things.

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