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Valerie Utges

Cyber Strategy, GRC, Dora, NIS2, AI Act…

€1,350/day
22 projects
Paris, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Valerie

I support Boards, CIOs, CISOs, DPOs, Risk Managers etc. in defining and managing their cybersecurity, continuity, and compliance strategies.
🔹Areas of expertise, all sectors:
• Cybersecurity Strategy and Governance
• Resilience / Business Continuity (BIA, DRP, BCP)
• Regulatory Compliance (GDPR, #DORA, #NIS2, AI Act…)
• Risk Management (#EBIOS, security assurance plan, audits, benchmarks)
• Awareness & Governance (IT charter, security policy, procedures, contracts, crisis management, breaches)
🔹Deliverable examples:
• Cybersecurity roadmap, organization, transformation plan
• Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
• Policies, procedures, charters
• Due diligence / partner security assurance plan
🔹Pricing:
– Fixed fee per deliverable (audit, analysis, strategic deliverable)
– Time & material (hourly, half-day, daily), short, medium, or long term!

🎯 Goal: to provide you with concrete value and rapid improvement areas adapted to your specificities, through discussions/interviews/audits that #AI cannot (yet) conduct!
  • Spanish

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km), Lyon (up to 10km), Marseille (up to 10km), Lille (up to 10km)

Experience

  • Toyota Financial Services
    Part-time CISO and DORA Compliance
    August 2025 - Today (1 year)
    Cyber and DORA compliance implementation
    Board awareness
    Partner negotiations
    Risk analyses
    Coaching of an internal employee for RSO skill development
    Cybersecurity GRC Risk Mapping
  • Stago
    Part-time Data Classification Program Manager
    PHARMACEUTICALS INDUSTRY
    June 2025 - Today (1 year and 2 months)
    Program management for the Group CISO:
    - Business processes and data inventory
    - Confidentiality, integrity, availability classification
    - NIS2 compliance
    - DLP preparation
    Classification NIS 2 CMMC DLP BIA
  • Comcyber
    Operational Reservist
    DEFENSE AND MILITARY
    October 2024 - Today (1 year and 10 months)
    Ad-hoc cyber missions
    The confidential nature of the topics prevents me from providing further details...

Reviews

5.0

Out of 3 ratings

B

Benoit

CYBELE AM

Reviewed on 10/19/2023

Thank you
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JUSTPLAYFAIR

Reviewed on 2/13/2023

It was a pleasure collaborating with Valérie. In addition to her professionalism, she has highly appreciated interpersonal skills: she is very kind, attentive, and always smiling. During this mission, she perfectly adapted and adjusted her business expertise to our needs. She also has a knack for making highly technical subjects understandable and accessible to everyone. I recommend her without hesitation!

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Education

  • DEA AUTOMATISMES
    FACULTY OF SCIENCES OF ROUEN
    1990
  • DESS BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION CERTIFICATE
    IAE AIX EN PROVENCE
    1991

Certifications

  • Cissp
    Isc2

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