Brighton Kithendu is an IT Security, Risk & Governance professional with experience on provision of assurance and consulting services to corporate clients across several industries including telecommunication, financial services, hospitality, health, logistics, private and public sector.

Brighton has worked as a Technical Support Engineer at Safaricom Ltd, Senior IT Risk Assurance Consultant at PwC Kenya and IT Audit Manager at Equity Group Holdings Ltd.

He holds an MBA Strategic Management and a B.Eng in Electrical &Telecommunication Engineering.

He is professionally registered as an IT Professional member with ISACA Kenya chapter, Graduate Engineer with Engineers Registration Board of Kenya (ERB) and an InfoSec member with AfricaHackon.

His experience and expertise is in consulting and assurance services spanning across the key domains:

• IT Strategy & Governance.
• IT Security, Digital forensics & Risk Management.
• Business Continuity Management.
• Change Management and project assurance.
• IS Audits.
• Maturity assessment and benchmarking on best practice frameworks and standards like, COBIT 5, ITIL, ISO 27001, CBK etc

He holds professional certifications and training on Certified Information System Auditor (CISA) by ISACA, IT Service Management (ITIL v3) by Exin, Cyber Crime & Data Breach Management, Network Security, CompTIA Security+ 2011: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Security Training and Forensics, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) among others.