Howard Shortt

Howard is Grant Thornton Ireland’s cyber partner. He is an experienced business leader who applies detailed knowledge of cyber security, frameworks, governance, and cyber threat risk management in a client-collaborative approach to solving complex challenges. Howard utilises leading practices of cyber security operations, forensic investigative techniques, team leadership, and technologies in a complementary manner to address leading concerns such as cyber incident response, protecting critical infrastructure, mitigating and remediating cyber threat and improving security postures while maintaining compliance with standards and regulations.

Delivering cyber security advisory services through enabled teams for clients in many countries and sectors of business, he is a trusted advisor to senior leadership with a proven ability to disseminate technically complex issues into meaningful information of value.