Speakers

Eleanor Fairford, Deputy Director for Incident Response, NCSC


A generalist civil servant for the past 18 years, Eleanor has undertaken a range of policy and security roles at home and overseas in immigration, security policy and corporate services. Joining the NCSC when it began, Eleanor was responsible for the cyber assessment function providing reports on the cyber threat landscape for strategic decision makers in government....more


Pete Cooper, Deputy Director Cyber Defence, UK Cabinet Office


Pete is Deputy Director Cyber Defence within the Government Security Group in the UK Cabinet Office where he looks over the whole of the Government sector and is responsible for the Government Cyber Security Strategy, standards, assurance and policies as well as responding to serious or cross government cyber incidents. Across a diverse military, private sector and...more


Mary Haigh, CISO, BAE Systems


Mary is the CISO for BAE Systems plc. She joined the company in January 2015. Since joining BAE Systems she has held a number of roles including Director of Cyber for BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, responsible for developing the cyber vision and strategy, as well as the roadmap and go to market strategy for the cyber products and services. Prior to that Mary was...more


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...more


Lee Whatford, CISO, Domino's Pizza


Lee Whatford is a seasoned leader in information security and risk management. With over 25 years’ experience in a variety of roles across the industry, from start-up to large vendors, consultancies and managed service providers, Lee is now CISO for a leading global brand. He is also a Founding Partner of the South East Cyber Resilience Centre... more


Prakhar Chandra, Director of Cyber Risk, News UK


Prakhar is the Director of Cyber Risk for News UK. As part of his role, he looks after the cyber security and risks associated with one of the largest media organisations in the UK, with interests in print, digital and broadcasting. He has almost a decade of experience across the cybersecurity, risk, audit, and data protection domains.  He is a trusted advisor...more


Luke Hebbes, Director of Business Information Security, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)


Luke Hebbes is a passionate information security leader with 20 years of experience ranging from building high performing teams to delivering cutting-edge research. He promotes innovative, risk-based solutions rather than the formulaic application of industry standards or vendor solutions. Luke believe that it is essential to view security from the perspective of...more


Fred Langford, Director of Online Technology, Ofcom


Fred has 30 years’ experience across a variety of sectors focusing on the Internet, its technology, governance, security, safety and regulation.  Fred joined online harms regulator Ofcom in November 2020 and is the Director of Online Technology.  His work focuses on directing Ofcom's technical function and research in relation to Ofcom’s current...more


Federico Iaschi, Resilience Engineering Partner Change - Digital Security Department, Virgin Media O2


Federico is a multilingual Information, Cybersecurity, Risk and Resilience Leader, with a combination of leadership, technical, and managerial experience developed over 20 years within private and public sector enterprises, with global and local companies. Federico has been recently promoted to Resilience Engineering Partner in the Change - Digital...more


Greig Sharman, Chief Technology Officer, NSPCC


A high-performing strategic business change and digital leader who has proven experience of delivering change and transformation in a number of private and public sector organisations. Greig is highly experienced across IT operations, business strategy, enterprise architecture, software and service development, data capabilities, business change, portfolio and...more


Neil Johnson, Head of Security and Threat Solutions, TikTok


Over 20 years of experience in various roles within security, can be seen as a 'man of many hats'. Currently working for TikTok helping secure 'the last sunny corner of the internet' as the Head of Security and Threat Solutions where the team models threats and designs mitigating security controls. Has previously worked for NYSE, Diageo, EMC, Evercore and...more


Zibby Kwecka, Head of Information Security, Heineken UK


Zibby progressed from electronics, through advanced networking, and research in privacy-preserving cryptographic techniques, to helping some of the biggest organisations secure by design and defend their assets. On this journey he has inspired further development of covert-channel analysis and crypto solutions, assisted in forming one of the first CSOCs in UK, designed...more


David Whitelegg, European Security Officer, Compass Group


David is a commercially oriented and highly experienced information security professional with over 20 years of cybersecurity leadership and management. Proven track record of driving security posture improvement within large multinational enterprises and FinTech.  Responsible for securing and achieving PCI DSS compliance at one of Europe's largest payment...more


Simon Goldsmith, Director for Information Security, OVO Energy


Simon has been in security for over 20 years and has built security and intelligence capabilities for military platforms, national security, financial services, energy and global retail sectors. He has lived and worked in Asia, mainland Europe, Middle East as well as the UK and can speak to both successes and failures in national...Simon is a passionate advocate for security as a team sport with an urgent need for more diversity and inclusive behaviours in the profession. more


Helen Rabe, BISO, Abcam


Helen is passionate about aligning security with desired business outcomes, considerate of current state and future business strategies. As an influential and versatile security leader, her ability to clearly communicate strategy to all levels of the organisation, including the Board, have resulted in strong and comprehensive programs with high adoption...more


Jon Townsend, CIO, National Trust


Jon Townsend is a leader in technology and is the Chief Information Officer for the National Trust, where he was previously the CTO and CISO. He holds an MBA with the Open University and an MSc with Cranfield University in the Design of Information Systems. He previously held a commission as an Officer in the British Army, fulfilling a variety of technical and leadership...more


Andy Ng, Partner, Cyber, EY Consulting


As EY EMEIA Data Protection & Privacy Consulting Leader, Andy is responsible for an area of cybersecurity that helps clients make more informed decisions about their information assets, including strategic areas of data loss prevention (DLP), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Information Centric Security and Alliances.  With more than 15 years of experience...more


Ciaran Martin, Professor of Practice in the Management of Public Organisations, Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University


Ciaran Martin is Professor of Practice in the Management of Public Organisations at the Blavatnik School of Government, part of Oxford University.  Prior to joining the School, Ciaran was the founding Chief Executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, part of GCHQ.  Ciaran led a fundamental shift in the UK’s approach to cyber security in the...more


Vijay Kishnani, Lead Cybersecurity Engineer, CybelAngel


Vijay Kishnani is the Lead Cyber Security Engineer at CybelAngel. His team focuses on demonstrating the value of CybelAngel to prospective customers by leveraging our technology to identify live data leaks that can be found inside the supply chain. Vijay Kishnani has previously worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Merrill Lynch, and Goldman Sachs.


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. 


Nipun Gupta, Cybersecurity Specialist, Devo


Nipun Gupta is a senior security leader leading Devo’s product and growth strategy for partnerships, and is based in London, UK. Prior to joining Devo, he served as the Vice President, Global Cyber Security Strategy & Innovation Lead at Deutsche Bank in their Silicon Valley office. He led the bank's cybersecurity transformation efforts and provided strategic...more


Jonathan Lee, Sr. Product Manager, Menlo Security


Jonathan Lee is a Senior Product Manager at Menlo Security, a leader in cloud security. In this role, he serves as a trusted advisor to enterprise customers, and works closely with analysts and industry experts to identify market needs and requirements, and establish Menlo Security as a thought leader in the Secure Web Gateway (SWG) and Secure Access...more


Ian Lowe, Director of Solutions Marketing EMEA, Okta 


Ian Lowe is Okta’s Director of Solutions Marketing for EMEA. In his 19-year career, Ian has become a recognised product marketing and sales enablement leader having created and launched successful cloud-based identity and access management solutions that are used by top technology firms, financial services organisations and Governments around the world today.


Adam Gurney, Sales Engineer, OPSWAT


Adam Gurney is a Sales Engineer covering the EMEA region at OPSWAT, focusing on securing Critical National Infrastructure. An experienced technical engineer and sales professional, Adam has over 15 years’ industry experience, working with the UK’s largest MSP’s and security vendors, developing a key understanding of the demands organisations of all sizes face...more


Raghu Nandakumara, Senior Director - Solution Marketing, Illumio


Raghu Nandakumara is Senior Director, Solution Marketing, at Illumio where he is responsible for helping customers and prospects through their segmentation journeys. Previously, Raghu spent 15 years at Citibank, where he held a number of network security operations and engineering roles. Most recently, he served as a Senior Vice President, where he was responsible...more


Trevor Dearing, Global Director of Critical Infrastructure Solutions, Illumio


Trevor Dearing has worked in networking and security for over 40 years. He has attended the birth of nearly all the technologies that we now take for granted including, Ethernet Switching, VPNs, Firewalls and virtual networks. Originally an engineer working on some of the first network and cyber security systems. He is now the Global Director of Critical Infrastructure...more


Brett Raybould, EMEA Solutions Architect, Menlo Security


Brett Raybould is EMEA Solutions Architect at Menlo Security, a leader in cloud security. In this role, he is responsible for technical sales, product demonstrations, installations, solution proposals and evaluations. Brett joined Menlo Security in 2016 and discovered how Isolation technology provides a new approach to solving the problems that detection-based systems continue...more


Brad Freeman, Director of Technology, Senseon


Brad has over a decade of experience in conducting national cyber security investigations across critical national infrastructure and telecommunications sectors. He has led threat hunting teams at corporations such as BT, managed Security Operations at EE as well as performing incident response on offshore oil & gas platforms. Drawing upon his extensive experience...more


Pal Balint, Senior Professional Services Consultant, Imperva


Pal Balint Pal is a combat trained security architect with strong engineering background that he had gathered during his 15 years of service in the field. Being a Datasec and Appsec SME, Pal’s view has always been that one cannot exist without the other and that end-to-end threat modeling is the key to securing each artefact of a system appropriately


Bryan Littlefair, CISO & Cybersecurity consultant, presenting on behalf of FireMon


Bryan Littlefair is a CISO and Cybersecurity consultant, with over 20 years’ experience leading teams within information and cyber security. He specialises in advising executive teams and boards of some of the world’s largest organisations on their security strategy as well as providing security consultancy, guidance and mentorship to the Chief... Bryan is also very active in the start-up community working with both the London Office for Rapid Cyber Acceleration (LORCA) and Cyber London (Cylon) working with the start-ups and scaleups to ensure they have the right approach to cyber security as well as working with more mature start-ups on embedding an effective but practical approach to cyber security with the supporting policies and governance. He has most recently been the Global Chief Information Security Officer at the Multinational Insurer Aviva, transforming their security capability as the organisation changed to a fully digital way of interacting with its client base.  Before Aviva Bryan was the Global Chief Information Security Officer at Vodafone Group he created the Information Security function within the Global telco, created and embedded their security strategy and oversaw day to day security operations for over seven years. He also directed the Security Research Lab for British Telecom, participating in Global, EU and academic based research studies as well as driving relevant business transformation studies on behalf of BT. He advises at an executive and non-executive level both Venture capital funds and security start-ups on their security strategy and product visions to ensure as well as working with several universities on both the academic and research aspects. Bryan holds several patents in the information security space and is a regular keynote speaker at security events. more


Benjamin Preminger, Product Manager, Cybersixgill


As Product Manager at Cybersixgill, Benjamin Preminger leads innovation and product development across a variety of cyber threat intelligence offerings. He has deep experience working at the intersection of threat intelligence and AI, including the creation of an in-house, multi-lingual data analyst team that supports that company’s mission to provide scalable,...more


Chris Waynforth, Area VP, EMEA North, Imperva


Chris is part of the leadership team for Imperva EMEA as AVP for Northern Europe. Before joining Imperva, Chris worked at a number of major technology companies including RSA, Splunk, and Identiv, providing cyber-security solutions to the UK market. In particular, he has focused on helping businesses combat fraud through analytics and cutting-edge technology. Chris...more


Nick Hogg, Director of Technical Training, HelpSystems


Nick Hogg is Director of Technical Training at HelpSystems, a leading global cybersecurity company that help organizations protect their critical information. An international expert in defense and security systems training, Nick has over 24 years’ experience designing and delivering advanced enablement programs for organizations ranging from the world’s most...more


James Sherlow, Systems Engineering Manager, EMEA Cequence Security


James Sherlow has extensive application security engineering experience gained in both the private and public sectors. Through many years of practical engineering experience and research, he has become an acknowledged expert in cyber security, threat intelligence, secure application delivery of content and the heightened risks & threats associated with them. Prior...more


Cyril Noel-Tagoe, Cyber Threat Evangelist, Netacea


Cyril Noel-Tagoe is an experienced information security professional. He recently joined Netacea’s threat research team, where he spends his time researching, speaking and writing about malicious bots and other cyber security topics. He comes from a consulting background, having advised financial services organisations on a range of technical and non-technical cyber...more


James Burchell, Senior Security Engineer, CrowdStrike


James is a passionate, multidisciplinary security specialist who has the ability to de-mystify the complexity that shrouds many IT security challenges. With many years of experience in both military and corporate cyber security worlds, he has the knowledge to help you protect your brands reputation, data and intellectual property. The battle for IT security won’t...more


Stephen Roostan, VP EMEA, Kenna Security


Roostan has over a decade of experience in cyber security and transformation projects, his role at Kenna is to rapidly grow the EMEA organisation to meet the customer demand for risk-based vulnerability management. Prior to Kenna he held senior sales roles at Forcepoint, Citrix and Imperva, focusing on IT solutions for complex, enterprise requirements. Roostan has...more


Matthew Gracey-McMinn, Head of Threat Research, Netacea


Matthew Gracey-McMinn is an experienced Cyber Threat Intelligence professional with an MPhil from the University of Oxford. In his current role at Netacea, he researches and investigates the impact of malicious bots on online businesses and their customers, having previously worked for ReliaQuest with the world's largest companies responding to global cybersecurity...more


Steve Cottrel, EMEA CTO, Vectra


As the EMEA CTO at Vectra, Steve Cottrell assists customers, prospects, and security communities to identify key security pain points, while helping evolve security strategies in support of digital transformation and cloud adoption. Steve has worked as a CISO in large enterprises for the past 15 years, bringing a wealth of experience to the Vectra team from key...more


Brian Chappell, Chief Security Strategist (CSS), EMEIA & APAC, BeyondTrust


Brian has more than 30 years of IT and cybersecurity experience in a career that has spanned system integrators, PC and Software vendors, and high-tech multi-nationals. He has held senior roles in both the vendor and the enterprise space in companies such as Amstrad plc, BBC Television, GlaxoSmithKline, and BeyondTrust. At BeyondTrust, Brian has led Sales...more


Engin Yilmaz, Product Director, Red Sift


Engin Yilmaz is Product Director at Red Sift, one of Europe’s fastest-growing cybersecurity companies. His expertise in leading Product teams has seen him work on Gmail for business and  Google Workspace, the integration of the Skype mobile app into Microsoft as well as an adventure into a behavioural advertising startup. He found his way into cybersecurity...more


Rois Ni Thuama, Head of Cybersecurity Governance & Legal Partnerships, Red Sift


A doctor of Law and an expert in the field of cyber governance and risk mitigation, Rois is highly experienced in her role as Head of Cyber Security governance at Red Sift. She works with key clients across a wide range of industries including legal, finance, banking and oil & gas, and regularly writes and presents content focussed on significant cyber threats,...more


Ed Bishop, Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder, Tessian


Ed is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Human Layer Security company Tessian. He is responsible for leading the engineering, product and data science teams. Following a career in M&A, Ed co-founded the company and built the early platform which uses machine learning to protect people from risks on email like data exfiltration, accidental data loss...more


Neil McRae, Solution Engineer, Tessian 


Neil McRae is an experienced Solution Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer and network security industry. Having previously worked for Fortinet, Extreme Networks and Sky, a strong professional who likes to keep up with the latest trends, challenges and threats in today's cyber security landscape. At Tessian Neil is responsible for demonstrating...more


Tim Ager, VP of Sales, EMEA, Picus Security


Tim has been working in the cybersecurity industry for over 20 years and has a passion for helping organisations defend against the latest cyber threats. He is an advocate of continuous security validation and how it empowers security teams to better understand, measure and mitigate risks.


Maurits Lucas, Director of Product Marketing, Intel471


Maurits Lucas is Director of Intelligence Solutions at Intel 471, where he specialises in bridging the gap between technology and business. Maurits has held various positions in Cyber Threat Intelligence and IT Security over the past 17 years and is a subject matter expert on cybercrime, presenting his research and providing his thought-leadership to distinguished...more


Dan Gadd, Senior Sales Engineer, EMEA, Beyond Identity


Dan is an experienced, self-motivated Sales Engineer with a proven record for proactively building highly productive, professional relationships with MSPs, partners and customers.


Alain Salesse, Senior Sales Engineer, Cofense


Alain Salesse is a Senior Sales Engineer Cofense. Alain has spent 25 years working for and with large enterprises and service providers to improve the efficiency and value of their IT operations and security services through the effective use of systems management technologies. In his current position Alain helps organisations to better protect themselves against...more


Ian Tinney, CEO & Founder, 4Data Solutions


4Data Solutions was co-founded by Ian Tinney, who previously founded, ran, and successfully sold one of the first and most successful Splunk partners in EMEA, EQALIS Limited. Ian combines a deep knowledge of technical subjects, from IT and cloud security and regulatory compliance to data management and analytics, with a firm grasp of the challenges faced by CXOs...more


Jason Steer, Principal Security Strategist, Recorded Future


Jason is a techie at heart and has built and broken computers and networks since 1996! Jason has worked at a number of successful technology companies over the past 15 years, including IronPort, Veracode & FireEye. Jason has worked as a media expert with the BBC, CNN & Al Jazeera  and has worked with both the EU and UK Governments on cybersecurity strategy.


Lewis Brand, Senior Sales Engineer, Recorded Future


Lewis Brand, Senior Sales Engineer at Recorded Future, has over nine years in the IT industry, where he has specialised in liaising with enterprise customers across EMEA. Before his career at Recorded Future, Lewis operated as a Sales Engineer at Tenable, with his primary focus centered around Vulnerability Management. He has previously provided IT...more


Ram Vaidyanathan, Cyber Risk and Security Expert, Manage Engine


Ram Vaidyanathan is a Cyber Risk and Security Expert at ManageEngine, the IT management division of Zoho Corporation. He helps security analysts better understand and solve security and compliance challenges. He keeps updated about the latest attack methods, and the most effective response techniques. This helps with the product roadmap decisions in ManageEngine Log360,...more


Oakley Cox, Director of Analysis, Cambridge, Darktrace


Oakley Cox is Director of Analysis at Darktrace, based at the Cambridge headquarters. He oversees the defense of critical infrastructure and industrial control systems, helping to ensure that Darktrace’s AI stays one step ahead of attackers. Oakley is GIAC certified in Response and Industrial Defense (GRID), and helps customers integrate Darktrace...more


Justin Shaw-Gray, Sales Director, UKI and South Africa, Synack, Inc.


In 2018, shortly after joining Synack, Justin was awarded SC Media’s Runner Up for Best Cybersecurity Sales Leader. Prior to Synack Justin held senior roles at Netscope, Zscaler, and Riverbed. Justin is originally from Zimbabwe where he was Founder and Human Rights Activist for the Restoration of Human Rights Zimbabwe. Justin is...more