Speakers

Mike Fell OBE, Director of National Cyber Operations, NHS England

Mike has spent 15 years in range of security roles for the UK Government and is currently Director of National Cyber Operations for NHS England. He is responsible for the security of NHS England’s data and systems, as well as leading work to enable the resilience of the whole Health & Social Care System in defending and responding to cyber-attacks.   Prior... to this Mike spent six years as the Head of Cyber Security Operations and latterly as Deputy Chief Security Officer for HMRC. He’s filled his CV with roles in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in Afghanistan, in National Security and in helping to secure the 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games. He is proud to be a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Information Security.   Mike is passionate about helping people protect themselves from cyber threats, regularly talking about the topic including on national TV and Radio. His teams have won Digital Leaders, Government Security and IT Industry Awards for their innovative work keeping the UK public safe. His work isn’t limited to the UK, providing voluntary help to build capacity and capability in a range of overseas organisations.   more

David Ferguson, Deputy CISO, Bank of England

Technical Cyber Security Leader with over 17 years of experience within startups, management consulting and top-tier financial organisations. With a passion for brokering relationships between the business and cyber, Dave delivers pragmatic operating models with a proven record of increasing simplicity, promoting accountable visibility and reducing risk.

Becky Pinkard, Head of Cyber Operations, Barclays

Becky is Head of Cyber Operations at Barclays where she previously worked as Global Head of Attack Monitoring, before moving on to various roles managing large security functions at BlackBerry, Pearson and Digital Shadows. Most recently she was Head of Global Cyber Defence at Vodafone. Becky is also an active advocate for promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion... in business, and hosts her own monthly podcast, Cyber Warrior Princess, focused on current cybersecurity related commentary, and was a co-founder of the ‘We Empower Diversity in Start-ups’ (WEDS) group. Recipient of the 2022 Global Cyber Security Leadership Award- Editor's Choice (Global), previously appointed to the ‘100 Global CISOs for 2020’ list and awarded ‘CISO of the Year, 2020’ by SC Awards Europe, Becky is a renowned practitioner and commentator on the information security sector who has been working in information technology and security since 1996. A security transformation expert, Becky’s background and experience to date has provided her with broad information security expertise, coupled with global team management and in-depth, technical capabilities around cyber security operations. She has been a CyLon mentor since 2017, providing cyber security, operations and client success guidance to entrepreneurs. She was a SANS Certified Instructor for over a decade and served as a GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst advisory board member and on the Strategic Advisory Council for the Center of Internet Security. Becky co-authored "Nmap in the Enterprise" and "Intrusion Prevention and Active Response, Deploying Network and Host IPS". She has shared her expertise in numerous publications, both written and in live interviews all over the world, including: The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, ChannelPost, The Telegraph, The New York Times, BBC News, Channel 4 News, and more.   more

Mal Smyth, Global Head of Cyber Governance, Risk and Control, Vodafone

Over a 30-year career in Technology, Mal Smyth has led governance, risk and controls functions and programmes involving strategic and operational change at leading international companies including Vodafone, JP Morgan, AXA and UBS. At Vodafone since 2015, he is responsible for developing the Cyber Security policy, control and risk framework and also leads Third Party... risk management for Cyber. His focus at present is developing a truly risk-led approach to Cybersecurity balancing business priorities with risk reduction. He has a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Oxford. more

Claire Davies MBE, Partner & Chief Information Security Officer, John Lewis Partnership

Claire cut her teeth in the security industry whilst serving in the British Military. She left just over ten years ago and has since worked in multiple sectors building and improving information security and privacy capabilities for European companies. She is currently the CISO for John Lewis Partnership. Claire's particular passion is mentoring individuals to help... them realise their full potential and build great security teams.    more

Group Captain Robert Wright, Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff J6, UK Strategic Command, PJHQ

Group Captain Robert Wright has enjoyed a wide and varied career in operational communication systems and information security, characterised by regular, close engagement with sister services, NATO, other allies, and industrial partners. Latterly he has focussed on cyber resilience and digital transformation in RAF Air Command and the UK Strategic Command, Permanent... Joint Headquarters.     Wright holds a Bachelor of Engineering, Master of Science in Cyber Defence and Information Assurance, Master of Arts in Defence Studies, and Master of Defence Administration. A Chartered Engineer, he is actively involved with the promotion of cyber security as a profession and regularly supports the Institute of Engineering and Technology as a professional review interviewer and advisor.  more

Steve Kinghan, Head of Cyber Operations, Hiscox

Steve Kinghan is the Head of Cyber Operations within Hiscox Insurance’s information security team. Steve has been at Hiscox for two years, with his life prior being within military intelligence and offensive cyber operation

Hayley Trezel, Head of CNI Policy, Cyber & Supply Chains, Critical National Infrastructure & Systems Resilience Directorate, Cabinet Office

Hayley has been a UK civil servant for the past 16 years, working across a broad range of areas including policy, transformation and project delivery. She is currently Head of Critical National Infrastructure and Critical Supply Chains in the Resilience Directorate of the Cabinet Office. In her role she oversees the security & resilience of cross-cutting CNI policy,... driving the resilience of CNI cyber including responsibility for commitments under the UKG National Cyber Strategy and critical supply chain resilience.  Hayley’s early career began in the Justice sector, working at the Parole Board for England and Wales where she led a number of transformation programmes including the Digitalisation of the Parole Process. She then moved into the Ministry of Justice to work on Prison Reform, spanning the operational delivery of His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service and the strategic policy within the centre. From there she joined a cross-government team to support transition arrangements for EU Exit in a Borders focused role working closely with local resilience partners and setting up the Border Operations Centre – a response operation which monitored trade flows between the UK and Europe. 
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Mark Osborne, CISO & Head of Security, GoHenry

Mark is the CISO and Head of Security at GoHenry. Prior to this he headed up the KPMG security practice for many years and subsequently built several security businesses.  He has held many security leadership and CISO positions including Interoute, HP, Cognizant and Jones Lange LaSalle and is a veteran of numerous successful remediations, turn-arounds and security... transformations.
He has researched and published Zero-Day security vulnerabilities (most notably Fatajack) and designed the world’s first open-source wireless IDS/IPS (WIDZ) and developed it’s widely used detection algorithms. and has published numerous other software tools.
Mark is the author of many security books including “How To Cheat at Managing Information Security” which reached the Global Amazon.com Top-500 and he is regularly referenced by Universities, IEEE, IETF, ISACA, GIAC and FIRST  — most importantly referenced in “Wireless for Dummies".
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Danielle Sudai, Security Operations Manager, Deliveroo

Danielle leads Cloud Security Operations and SOC teams at Deliveroo, in her main role she is managing all of the Cloud Assets and SaaS solutions security monitoring in identifying real-time threats and security breaches.
Danielle is also a cloud security engineer, in her roles she co-engineered CSPM internal solution, reviewed and governed different cloud services... from a security perspective, Cloud IAM misconfigurations and KMS services automation. more

Jonathan Armstrong, Partner, Punter Southall Law

Jonathan is an experienced lawyer with a concentration on technology and compliance. His practice includes advising multinational companies on matters involving risk, compliance and technology across Europe. He has handled legal matters in more than 60 countries involving emerging technology, corporate governance, ethics code implementation, reputation, internal investigations,... marketing, branding and global privacy policies. Jonathan has counselled a range of clients on breach prevention, mitigation and response. He has also been particularly active in advising multi-national corporations on their response to the UK Bribery Act 2010 and its inter-relationship with the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
Jonathan is one of three co-authors of the LexisNexis definitive work on technology law, “Managing Risk: Technology & Communications”. He is a frequent broadcaster for the BBC and other channels and appeared on BBC News 24 as the studio guest on the Walport Review.
In July 2023 Jonathan was appointed to the New York State Bar Association Presidential Task Force on Artificial Intelligence. Jonathan sits on the Task Force with leading practitioners, regulators, judges and academics to develop frameworks for the use and control of AI in the legal system.more

Quentyn Taylor, Director of Information Security, Canon (EMEA)

Using the power of stories and his own experience of testing products to destruction; Quentyn has embraced building business relationships across the world whilst driving Canon’s strategy and educating business customers to minimise their security risk. Before joining Canon, Quentyn has worked in a variety of industries such as Internet service providers as well... as startup businesses.  more

Matt Finn, Information Security Director, DLA Piper

Over 20 years’ experience in senior level IT leadership and Information Security at a leading international law firm. Experienced at building high-performing security teams, with a strong reputation for developing and delivering transformation and cyber protection strategy.

Rob Flanders, Head of Threat and Incident Response, BAE Systems

Rob has 10 years’ experience in Cyber Security, covering Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, Security Architecture and Risk Management. Rob's experience is in Defence and UK Government, delivering technical security focussed capabilities including leading GBEST assessments on behalf of government departments and supporting development of Threat Intelligence... capability across the public sector. Rob now leads Major Cyber Incident Response and Strategic Threat Intelligence at BAE Systems.
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Samuel Wheeler, Information Security Analyst, Hiscox

Samuel is an Information Security Analyst at Hiscox, where his time is split between operating in the SOC and other security tasks/projects. He specialises in incident response, SOC processes development and project management. He has a BSc First Class degree in Computer Science from the University of Kent. Outside his work his main interest is automotive.
 

Richard Price, Chief Security Officer, Vorboss

Richard will admit to having worked in technology and security for over 20 years but dissembles when asked for a more exact estimate. He has worked in technical and commercial roles, with a transformation focus. These include leading security and transformation initiatives at Telecom New Zealand and security product development & management at Vodafone Group based... in Newbury. He served as a Director in Deloitte’s London-based cyber security consultancy before spending two years with Amazon Web Services, working with governments and public sector organisations across EMEA. 
Since July 2023, Richard has been the Chief Security Officer at Vorboss – London’s fastest fibre network - where he looks after both cyber and corporate security. 
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Richard Plumb, Senior Manager Cyber Threat Intelligence, Element Materials Technology

Richard is an experienced cyber threat specialist having just taken up a new role as Global Cyber Threat Lead at Element Materials Technology. Richard worked for many years in front-line Policing before specialising in physical security consultancy within the Police. He transitioned to cyber security consultancy as a consultant manager at KPMG before building and... leading the NHS’s covid-centric cyber threat intelligence function, and finally leading the NHS’s national cyber threat intelligence function within NHS Digital. Richard then transitioned to the Home Office as Head of Cyber Threat Operations where he led Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting, and Threat & Vulnerability Management teams, before settling into his current role within Element. more

Goher Mohammad, Head of Information Security, L&Q Group

Goher made his mark as one of the youngest IT leaders at Omnicom Group back in 2004, and has a huge passion for Technology, Information and Cyber Security with a drive not just do things well but in an innovative and better way. Having over 20 years experience shared across Technology and Information Security in global organisations dealing with more comprehensive... but secure and controlled structures in Citibank and Merrill Corporation to more agile environments within Omnicomgroup and Photobox Group Security, Goher’s vision is always taking and combining the best of both. At L&Q Group, he has brought information and cyber security to the forefront to meet the demands and ambitions of the organisation and group in an agile, modern and future proof way to deliver a world-class information security function. A keen diver, traveller keen to explore the world, Goher also loves play retro video games and not so secretly is a complete tech geek. Deep down, his inquisitive nature is always looking to understand the inner workings of everything that’s around and in turn, how can it be made better. more

Ian Thompson, Head of Cyber Threat Intelligence, BP

Ian was born in Hull, East Yorkshire. After receiving a degree in Computer Science, he joined a central government department in a cyber position, where he worked for twelve years in operational roles in defense and national security. His time there included multiple deployments in support of military operations to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Africa.   
Ian... was embedded within a US government department based in San Antonio Texas as the senior UK liaison officer and lead for intelligence analysis and tradecraft development, when he joined bp’s Cyber Defense team in Houston in September 2017. His initial role was to manage and help develop bp’s response to cyber emergencies. He developed a cyber intelligence strategy and was appointed head of a new cyber intelligence team at the start of 2021.   
Ian has since transferred back to the UK and now lives in Lincoln with his wife and youngest of four children (he sleeps on his houseboat on the River Thames when working from the office). He is an advisor for an AI company, enjoys participating at speaking events. Ian is passionate about organization management strategies, especially empowering people and improving cross team working to enhance performance. He is focused on using his passion to help drive the digital security mission forward.more

Dhruv Bisani, Head of Adversarial Attack Simulations, Starling Bank

Dhruv is a leading cybersecurity professional with a key interest in leading & delivering Adversarial Attack (Red/Purple Team) simulations. He is currently the Head of Adversarial Attack Simulations at Starling Bank and formerly established and served as the Head of the Red Team at Resillion. Dhruv’s core focus has been on developing the red team (attack simulation)... capability at Resillion, while focusing on testing less common environments such as MacOS environments and zero-trust red team engagements. He has successfully delivered advanced attack simulations across a range of sectors including finance, healthcare, legal, and retail. Dhruv possesses extensive experience in executing projects under the UK CBEST/TBEST schemes. Dhruv’s role encompasses a wide array of responsibilities such as recruitment, training, overseeing sales/finances, as well as enhancing technical methodologies and processes. As part of his role, Dhruv has collaborated closely with C-suite executives and CISOs, providing strategic cybersecurity insights to help secure the organisation. more

Manit Sahib, Ethical Hacker, The Global Fund

Manit is an experienced offensive security expert who is certified by UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) as well as His Majesty’s CESG Check scheme (HMG CHECK). He has over ten years professional experience in both UK Government and private offensive security operations. Formerly, Manit was the Head of Penetration Testing & Red Teaming... at the Bank of England. He is contracted to Global Fund. more

Ben Trethowan, CISO, Brit Insurance

Ben is a senior technology leader of some 18 years’ experience and is currently the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Brit Insurance. He is an accomplished hands-on Cyber Security leader, with extensive experience working in the FinTech, Entertainment, Transport and Defence sectors. Ben has led Cyber Security activities at all levels, from governance... and strategy to transformation and technical implementation, and continues to expand his skills through both academic and professional development. He also offers his Cyber Security and broader engineering skills voluntarily to a number of organisations that he supports. more

Dave Philpotts, Sales Engineer, Varonis

Dave Philpotts, Sales Engineer at Varonis, has over 20 Years experience in IT working in various roles inside organisations and MSPs. In his 7 years at Varonis, he has worked with Enterprise and Strategic customers, helping them and their partners on data governance projects as well as managing and securing data.

Brett Taylor, SE Director, UKI, SentinelOne

Brett is the SE Director at SentinelOne, responsible for the UK&I, and brings with him significant experience of network and security management.  He has developed cyber protection strategies for small, medium, and large enterprise businesses, as well as national scale projects. Before joining SentinelOne, Brett was a Senior SE Manager for Palo Alto Networks... where he was responsible for positioning the company’s full technology portfolio with both regional and central government customers, as well as defense and intelligence organizations. Prior to that he was a Global Director of Pre-Sales for several years with BAE AI, leading the company’s Advanced Security Operating Centre strategy, which he developed and positioned with allied nation governments and military organizations for cyber defense at a national level. Before BAE AI, Brett was a regular presenter internationally for several organizations in the lawful intercept and communications intelligence domain. Brett started his career in consultancy with Cap Gemini, leading the charge as a programmer fixing the Y2K bug, and has held a variety of technical & management roles since.
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Ian Wood, Senior Director and Head of Technology, Commvault UK

As Commvault Head of Technology, Ian is responsible for the technical strategy, presales and solution engineering for the UK and Ireland. He heads a team of technical specialists, who work throughout the solution lifecycle as subject matter experts to solve complicated information management challenges. Ian and his team partner with organisations to help them accelerate... their digital transformation, overcome pressing IT and business situations using new ways to manage data complexity and cyber resilience. 
Prior to his current role, Ian worked for over 25 years in various data management roles including leading both regional and global technical consultants and product leads at Symantec and Veritas, where he has been part of large design, implementation and transformation.
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Jain Joseph, Solutions Architect, SUSE

Jain, is a Solution Architect at SUSE with a deep understanding of container orchestration and cloud-native technologies. Jain works closely with organizations to design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes-based solutions that improve operational efficiency, enhance scalability, and streamline application development. Whether building new Kubernetes environments or migrating... existing workloads to Kubernetes, Jain is dedicated to helping organisations to realise the full potential of this powerful technology and to achieve their digital transformation objectives. more

Trish Almgren, Senior Product Marketing Manager & Field Evangelist, Infoblox

Trish has had a diverse career in technology, spanning the globe, including assignments in North America and now Europe. She brings a strong networking background to Infoblox with more than six years in telecommunications. She has launched award-winning networking products, produced countless whitepapers and eBooks, and delivered keynotes in key international markets.

Glyn Worrall, RVP, Technical Account Management, Tanium

Glyn has worked in the IT industry for over 23 years spanning local government, systems integrators, security vendors and for the last 7.5 years at Tanium. Formally in professional services and Technical Account Manager roles, he is now a Regional Vice President and leads a team of Presales engineers and TAMs covering the North of Europe supporting some of the largest... and strategic customers in region. Glyn strives on excellence, has a passion for exceeding goals and has vast experience across technical presales, consulting, training and technical delivery. Having worked with many organisations in all different verticals (Fin-tech, retail, petrochemical, health and education) Glyn has gained a deep understanding of implementing various security tooling from encryption, to data loss prevention, AV and general IT operations from software deployment, to patching and vulnerability management solutions. 
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Joe Michael, Director and Co-Founder, EndpointX on behalf of Tanium

As the Director and Co-Founder of EndpointX, Joe brings over a decade of experience in technology and cybersecurity, with a focus on enhancing companies' cyber resilience through improved cyber hygiene practices. Previously, he held key roles at IPsoft and Bank of America, where he led technical architecture and automation teams. With a background in computer science... and AI, his expertise lies in developing innovative solutions to mitigate cyber threats and safeguard organizations' critical assets in today's rapidly evolving digital landscape. more

Rob Pocock, Technology Director, Red Helix

Rob Pocock is a stalwart employee of Red Helix, working at the company for over 25 years. During this time, Rob has worked upward through company ranks, joining the Red Helix team as Product Manager in 1999, to now working as Technology Director.  
 

Oli Venn, SE Manager, Northern Europe, WatchGuard Technologies on behalf of Red Helix

Oli Venn is the SE Manager, Northern Europe at WatchGuard Technologies. Prior to joining WatchGuard in 2018, Oli was an Infrastructure and Security Lead for one of the largest privately owned car dealer groups in the UK. Oli specialises in Network Perimeter Security, Wi-Fi Security, Multi-Factor Authentication and Endpoint Security. 

Jorge Montiel, Head of Pre-Sales, EMEA, Red Sift

Jorge is the Head of Sales Engineering for Red Sift in EMEA, with a focus on matching business requirements with technical ones in order to solve critical business initiatives for our enterprise customers. Prior to joining Red Sift, Jorge worked in the ID verification industry with leading AI solutions to address use cases such as matching live faces with photos on... government-issued documents, and has been working with leading cybersecurity solutions since 2006. more

Haydn Brooks, CEO, Risk Ledger

Originally a big 4 cyber risk consultant Haydn experienced the day to issues that came with running a supply chain assurance programme. He found that current programmes were far from frictionless and actively caused clients and their suppliers' headaches. These pain points led him to found Risk Ledger. Risk Ledger is a technology platform that combines a security... governance platform with a secure social network. Now one full-time employee can run an entire assurance programme for over 1000 vendors, quickly see where their supply chain concentration risks are and identify potential third-party vulnerabilities. In the last couple of years, Risk Ledger has gone from strength to strength, receiving 2.1 million in seed funding, winning the Cyber Den/Most Innovative Cyber Company Award and being named as one of Forbes’ Tech Champions of 2022. In addition, Haydn was featured on the Forbes 30 under 30 list. 
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Alistair Mills, Director, Sales Engineering, Northern Europe, Proofpoint

Alistair Mills is a Cyber Security Expert with over 15 years’ experience. He enjoys the challenge of running teams who work on complex technical solutions that help organisations to protect their people and secure their data. Prior to Proofpoint, Alistair worked at Forcepoint, Symantec and Sophos. 

Ian Dutton, Senior Sales Engineer UK, Gatewatcher

Ian has 20+ years of experience working in the networking and security industry. He has held senior positions in engineering and architecture roles whilst working for Resellers, MSSP’s and Distributors where he has designed cybersecurity solutions, provided expertise and distilled knowledge to leading enterprises. Ian is now the Senior Sales Engineer for Gatewatcher... in the UK and Ireland. more

François Normand, Cyber Threat Intelligence Manager, Gatewatcher

François Normand is the Head of CTI and one of the co-founders of LastInfoSec. Before founding LastInfoSec, he worked for CERTs/ CSIRTs to solve security incidents in multiple sectors (finance, energy, IT, ...). He also helped to improve the level of intrusion detection for financial organisations. It is during these different missions that he realised that Cyber... Threat intelligence could improve the automation of detection, hunting and incident response of SoC / CSIRT teams. He is currently working in the R&D department on all CTI related topics at Gatewatcher.
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Jim Simpson, Director of Threat Intelligence, Searchlight Cyber

Jim Simpson has been working in technology and cybersecurity for more than a decade, with experience in public sector, ecommerce, and FTSE100 companies before moving vendor-side at Cylance in 2017. He worked in threat research as a Principal Threat Researcher at Cylance / BlackBerry Cybersecurity, before becoming Director of Threat Intelligence. Jim joined Searchlight... Cyber as Director of Threat Intelligence in 2022 for a new challenge in undertaking threat research on the dark web. His expertise includes SOC and MDR, incident response, malware analysis, threat hunting, and threat modeling. Jim is also a SANS Certified Instructor Candidate Teaching FOR 578 the Cyber Threat Intelligence course. more

Robert Fitzsimons, Senior Threat Intelligence Engineer, Searchlight Cyber

Robert Fitzsimons is a Senior Threat Intelligence Engineer at the dark web intelligence company Searchlight Cyber, having previously served as a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst with the UK Ministry of Defence and at the government and CNI software provider, Telesoft. Fitzsimons applies his experience in military intelligence and knowledge of adversary behaviors... in Searchlight’s threat intelligence team, investigating the dark web for malicious activities and identifying potential threats to organizations. He works closely with Searchlight’s customers, understanding their intelligence requirements and training them in how to use Searchlight’s dark web investigation and monitoring platforms. more

Ravi Pather, Vice President Sales EME, Ericom Security by Cradlepoint (Ericsson)

Ravi Pather serves as Cradlepoint’s Vice President of Europe region for its Cybersecurity business unit. Cradlepoint is part of Ericsson Group.
Ravi is responsible for establishing and driving the regional Go-to-Market strategy, sales and marketing activities including channel partner development and sales for Cradlepoint’s Security solutions. ... /> As a member of the global senior management team, Ravi brings renewed focus to the regional execution and ‘go to market’ strategy and reach to drive this exciting next phase of expansion of Cradlepoint’s Security solutions. 
With an executive career spanning 25 years in security and compliance software, Ravi has held executive VP positions at Blue Coat and Symantec and more recently Ericom who were acquired by Cradlepoint in April 2023.
Ravi has in-depth experience of helping enterprises’ establishing and implementing cyber security solutions leveraging the power of cloud SaaS security solutions. 
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Lee Elliott, Director, Solutions Engineering, Beyond Trust

Lee Elliott is the Director, Solutions Engineering, for BeyondTrust. A highly capable security leader with 20+ years’ experience, Lee has acquired a wide range of security and identity management experience and knowledge, working across multiple industries in both vendor and client-side organizations. As a regular speaker at industry conferences, Lee delivers disruptive... technical and strategic thought-leadership insight to the international cybersecurity community. more

Adam Matthews, Senior Solutions Engineer, Okta

Adam is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Okta, working with some of the UK's largest organisations across Media, CPG and Public Sector. Adam has spent 10 years in the Identity and End User Computing industry in both pre and post sales roles.

Bernard Montel, EMEA Technical Director and Security Strategist, Tenable

With over 20 years in the security industry, Bernard Montel is Technical Director at Tenable. His expertise includes cryptography, Identity & Access Management, and SOC domains. Bernard has published numerous articles and is regularly invited to speak about cybersecurity providing insight into current cybersecurity threats, cyber risk management, and cyber exposure....  
Before joining Tenable, Bernard held the position of EMEA Field CTO for RSA, where he played a leading role within its Threat Detection & Response department. He has significant experience advising both large and medium size organizations on cybersecurity best practices.  
Bernard holds a Master of Science in Network and Security and a Master 2 degree in Artificial Intelligence. 
With over 20 years in the security industry, Bernard’s expertise includes cryptography, Identity & Access Management, and SOC domains. Bernard is currently EMEA Technical Director and Security Strategist for Tenable.  
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Lukas Vaivuckas, Intelligence Solutions Consultant, Silobreaker

Lukas Vaivuckas is a seasoned Intelligence Solutions Consultant at Silobreaker. With a strong background as an intelligence analyst Lukas advises clients from major enterprises, governments, and military bodies. He provides valuable advice on implementing best practices to develop comprehensive intelligence programs, streamline workflows, and deliver actionable reports... covering geopolitics, cyber threats, physical risk, and other vulnerabilities. This ensures that clients have the necessary tools and strategies to navigate the complex landscape of intelligence. Lukas's expertise comes from his background in the defence sector and security studies from LSE, Hudson Institute and King’s College, London UK.
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Arunava Banerjee, Cyber Risk Consulting Lead, Zurich Resilience Solutions.

Arun is the Cyber Risk Consulting Lead for Zurich Resilience Solutions. He is responsible for leading the cyber risk consultancy in the UK. He is also the chair of Zurich’s Global Risk Engineering Technical Centre for Cyber. With a career spanning over 16 years, he brings in extensive cyber risk and resilience consultancy experience across both public and private... sector.  Arun is a CISM, ISO27001 Lead Implementor, PRINCE2 Practitioner and holds a Master of Business and Management.
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Andrew Insley, Cyber Risk Consultant, Zurich Resilience Solutions

Andrew works for Zurich Resilience Solutions providing consultancy and cyber risk assessment services that enable customers to make well informed decisions that allow effective management of their cyber risk. He has held IT Security and leadership roles both in the commercial and governmental sector. Andy is a CISM and holds a Masters in Information Security.... />   more

Chris Pace, CMO & Solution Advocate, RangeForce

Chris has 15 years experience in building and marketing cybersecurity solutions, he has worked in everything from endpoint security and privileged access management to threat intelligence and now cyber team readiness. Prior to his career in cyber Chris trained as a broadcast journalist.

Christian Have, CTO, Logpoint

Christian is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Logpoint, bringing two decades of cybersecurity expertise to his role. Christian leads technology innovation and research and collaborates with clients across Europe to address their security needs. With a background as the former Head of Network Security at the Danish National Police, Christian is also a guest lecturer... on cybersecurity at leading Danish universities. more

Brett Ayres, VP of Product, Teneo

Brett Ayres is VP of Product for Teneo. He has over 16 years of experience working with customers on network and security transformation projects, balancing technical, operational, and commercial requirements to deliver secure, optimised, and highly visible networks. Brett has held a range of commercial and technical roles during his time with Teneo. Recently he has... enhanced Teneo’s offerings by adding next-generation security solutions to the portfolio, designed to secure remote workforces accessing hybrid networks within a Zero Trust architecture. 
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Bradley Rossi, Senior Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco

Bradley is a Senior Technical Solutions Architect, specialising in security within Cisco for the past ten years. Throughout his career, he has worked across multiple roles, including Technical Support, Customer Consultancy and Firewall subject matter expert. Bradley is currently aligned to the UK&I, and advises on the most critical and technically challenging... cyber security issues companies Cisco works with face, as a trusted advisor. As a former technical apprentice, Bradley is passionate about Early In Career (EIC) talent. Bradley leads EIC development efforts within the UK&I Cybersecurity Technical Specialist team ensuring the strong and continued development of young talent in the cyber security industry. more

Dr Kiri Addison, Senior Manager Product Management, Mimecast

Dr Kiri Addison leads Mimecast’s Threat Detection and Data Science Product Management Team. Collaborating closely with engineers, researchers and data scientists, she ensures Mimecast’s security products evolve and adapt to defend against new threats. With previous experience as Mimecast’s Head of Data Science for Threat Intelligence, Kiri brings a wealth of... expertise to her role, where she is currently focused on developing innovative products that harness the power of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. more

Peter Hall, Cloud Security Specialist, Tenable

Peter is a results-driven IT professional with over 15 years of experience in delivery technology solutions to reduce business cyber risk.  Passionate about mentoring colleagues and helping them develop new skills, Peter uses his broad technical knowledge and strong communication skills to support security initiatives within digital transformation projects.

Ziv Gadot, CEO, Red Button

Ziv Gadot is the founder and CEO of Red Button, a boutique shop offering end-to-end DDoS protection services to organizations worldwide. The developer of the DDoS Resiliency Score (DRS) standard, he is also a frequent speaker at global security conferences. Prior to Red Button, Ziv worked at Radware, where he established and managed a 24x7 emergency response team... (ERT) to help organizations under DDoS attacks. Earlier, Ziv worked at Check Point's VPN team and at Intel. more

Parthi Sankar, Technical Director N.Europe, Anomali

Parthi is responsible for overseeing technical operations at Anomali and helps clients understand the importance of threat intelligence within their organisation. His work involves assessing an organization's cybersecurity maturity level to identify the most effective solutions and processes to detect and prevent attacks from skilled adversaries. These solutions could... include actionable threat intelligence from a threat intelligence platform, using SecOps to move from intelligence to detection in seconds, or implementing a natural language processing (NLP) tool or AI (Copilot) to improve workflow efficiency. Parthi is passionate about ensuring that the solutions he recommends provide a greater return on investment for existing cybersecurity investments. He also believes in bringing together different teams, processes, and tools to significantly improve an organisation's security posture and reduce its attack surface. With extensive experience working in the SOC and CTI industry for global companies, Parthi is a trusted advisor who knows how to acquire, implement, and use solutions and processes to achieve maximum value while aligning them with business goals and outcomes. Parthi holds formal qualifications in Virology (BSc), Information Security (MSc), and has earned certifications such as CISSP, CEH, and CISM. more

Rich Ford, CTO, Integrity 360

Richard Ford was appointed Chief Technology Officer in 2022 having previously held the role of Technical Director for Integrity360. He brings over 15 years’ experience of the IT sector, with the majority of his career spent directly in the IT security channel, the last 9 of which spent with Integrity360 overseeing the growth & development of Integrity360’s... technical capabilities. Richard brings a vast amount of knowledge, skills and experience to Integrity360 customers, and has been integral to the success of the Managed Security Services including SIEM, SOAR, EDR and MDR. He is instrumental in understanding and evolving Integrity360 offerings to meet the changing needs of organisations while also supporting the Integrity360 sales and delivery teams to meet customer expectations.
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Tim Thorne, Product Evangelist, Binalyze

Before joining Binalyze, he worked at Cellebrite/BlackBag as a Senior Solutions Expert and Trainer. This followed a 30-year career with the Metropolitan Police in London. He was a leader involved in significant investigations, including those related to drugs, murder, and robbery. He later focused on covert internal corruption investigations and managed the Anti-Corruption... Command's lab for network and digital forensics. He then moved on to become the Digital Forensic Operations Manager for the Counter Terrorism unit at New Scotland Yard, where he managed a team analyzing digital media related to terrorism cases in the UK and abroad.  more

Richard Orange, Regional Vice President, EMEA, Abnormal Security

Richard is an experienced Cyber Security professional with over 20 years experience in the information security arena, partnering with some of the largest global brands to solve some of the complex issues faced by the modern enterprise.  He is passionate about delivering positive outcomes for clients, ensuring the  best customer experience along the way.

Andrew Dillon, Sales Engineer, Mimecast

Having worked with various email security solutions for the past 4 years, Andrew’s passion lies in sharing valuable insights to fortify defenses against the ever-evolving landscape of sophisticated threats targeting users’ inboxes, as well as how organizations can prevent threat actors using their brand and reputation against those that trust them.

Ian Ashworth, EMEA Channel Director, Akamai

Ian Ashworth  is the EMEA Channel Director for the Akamai Security Group, based in the UK. This team’s main focus is to help the channel ecosystem fully understand how Akamai's comprehensive offerings can enhance their customers Zero Trust programs and increase cyber resiliency to meet their security needs. With over fifteen years of cyber security experience... within the channel, Ian is well placed to consult on a broad range of Enterprise Security topics. more

Anthon Johnson, Solutions Engineer, ThreatLocker

Anthon Johnson, a Solutions Engineer at ThreatLocker. With experience of working within the IT sector, Anthon has a vast knowledge of wealth which allows him to help businesses implement solutions to protect and secure their environments whilst hardening their security posture.

Ahmed Aburahal, Technical Product Manager, Integrity360

Ahmed Aburahal is a cybersecurity professional with 12+ years of experience in IT, networks, and security, working for global system integrators, and managed security service providers.
Throughout his career, he played multiple roles in security engineering, design, consultancy, architecture and product management, serving organisations across all industries... and geographies. His dynamic career helped him acquire a variety of skills and expertise to help his customers achieve their business goals, securely.
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Scott Flower, Sr. Solutions Engineering, EMEA, RangeForce

With over 30 years of experience in IT, including 20 in Network and Information Security, and 3 years providing training prior to joining RangeForce, Scott has extensive experience of training from both sides of the fence. 

Gareth Packham, CISO, Save the Children, on behalf of Abnormal Security