Speakers

Robert Gasior, Head of Cyber Incident Response, S&P Global

Robert joined S&P Global in August 2020, bringing more than 23 years of Cyber Security experience, including Incident response, cyber investigation and security operations expertise to his role with the company. As the Head of Cyber Incident Response Robert is responsible for S&P’s response to any Cyber Security incident. Ensuing that any cyber security... incident is contained and fully investigated. Robert is also responsible Threat Hunting and Threat Hunting  maintaining an up-to-date view of cyber-security threats (e.g. vulnerabilities, threat actors, etc.) and manage the implementation of preventative or detection measures to prevent any potential impact to S&P. Prior to joining S&P Global, Robert was Cyber Security Lead for the high-end fashion brand Boden. Establishing an entire Cyber Security Team and SOC / Incident response function. Prior to Boden, Robert held multiple positions in Cyber Security at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and other UK Government departments. Working at the highest levels of national security and defense of UK / NATO cyber security. Prior to this Robert work at various IT Security roles at IMG Media, Formula One and served in the British Army Royal Signals. Robert holds multiple Cyber Security certifications including CISMP, EnCase Certified Forensic Examiner, EC-Council CHFI and is a CESG Certified Professional.
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Ioan Nascu, GenAI Security Assurance specialist, Citi

Ioan is a seasoned cybersecurity professional with extensive experience across financial services, healthcare, and regulatory environments. He is currently Vice President for GenAI Security Assurance at Citi, where he helps drive the secure adoption of generative AI technologies within a global financial institution. Prior to this, he held leadership roles at IQVIA... and AXA, focusing on information security assurance, vulnerability management, and security strategy.
With a diverse background spanning security operations, architecture, and vulnerability management, Ioan built broad expertise early in his career through roles at ClearBank, the Financial Conduct Authority, and Winton Group.
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Steve Armstrong-Godwin, Lead of Security Incident Response and Threat Management, Danske Bank

Steve is a highly experienced IT Security leader, with extensive hands-on technical abilities, strong presentational and team building skills and a jovial sense of humour that allows him to disarm and educate senior and executive level staff. He was the concept designer and patented inventor of CyberCPR and he teaches for SANS worldwide and has developed talks, workshops,... modules and full training courses for them. With a rare blend of technical, management and most importantly business experience, he has a different view of security, one that is grey, not black and white. With this background, he helps people develop security strategies that are effective, realistic and achievable (thus they actually get implemented).
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Gill Fenney, Head of IT Risk Governance, Bupa

Gill has had a long career in IT working across financial, retail and services sectors, initially in technical roles but with the last 17 or so years specialising in Information Security. She has worked as a consultant running compliance programmes such as SOx, ISO 27001 and PCIDSS for various companies during this time. She is now Head of IT Risk Governance for Bupa.

Adam Avards, Principal for Cyber and Third Party Risk Policy, UK Finance

Adam Avards joined UK Finance in 2022 as Principal for Cyber and Third Party Risk Policy. He leads UK Finance’s engagement on the Critical Third Party regulatory pathway and chairs a number of industry forums and committees on Third Party Risk Management, Cyber Security and Cloud. Before joining UK Finance, Adam spent over 15 years within the UK’s Intelligence... Community, dealing with both physical and digital security, operations and policy.more