Speakers

Mark Logsdon, CISO, NHS England

Mark is Chief Information Security Officer for NHS England having joined from UKHSA (Test and Trace) where he was head of Cyber Assurance and Oversight. With over 30 years of experience in security, Mark has held a number of high profile roles in the public and private sectors. He has a strong business focus seeing security as a business enabler. At every opportunity... Mark seeks to manage the needs of business against those of security and risk. Outside of work, Mark works to raise much needed funds for NSPCC Childline. He is a member and former Chair of the WhiteHat Ball Committee which to date has raised over £2M for the NSPCC. more

Scott Barnett, Head of Information and Cybersecurity, NHS, National Services Scotland

From the public to the private sectors and back again, Scott has worked in information and cybersecurity for the past 20 years. Having held a variety of senior roles, including CISO at TSB Bank, he joined NHS Scotland NSS during the pandemic in 2020. As Head of Information and Cybersecurity, he leads the mission to deliver a world class cybersecurity operations capability... for Scotland’s Health Sector. He is excited by the opportunities that new technologies and ways of working bring to society and is an advocate of cohesive security strategies presented in everyday language that’s understood and bought into by users, managers and decision makers alike. more

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

Mike has spent 15 years in a range of security roles for the UK Government and is currently Director of National Cyber Operations for NHS England. This brings with it accountability for the security of NHS England’s data and systems, as well as supporting the resilience of the wider 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. Previous roles have included work with 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 former teams have recently 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 including those in Ghana, Nigeria, Pakistan and Tanzania for which he was awarded the OBE in the 2021 New Years Honours. more

Phil Huggins, National CISO for Health & Social Care, NHS England

Phil is a proven security leader currently employed as a Senior Civil Servant with over 25 years of experience in security and technology roles. Phil has designed and operated security for critical national infrastructure and sensitive government. Phil has advised and managed global financial services organisations and advised national regulators on cyber resilience... and cybersecurity. As National CISO for Health and Social Care in the Joint Cyber Unit in NHS England's Transformation Directorate Phil sets system cyber policy, strategy and architecture for the Health & Social Care system. The Health and Social Care system comprises the NHS, as well as the Department of Health & Social Care and its arms length bodies and more than 20,000 social care providers. He also acts as the NIS regulator for operators of essential services in Health & Social Care. He provides oversight and compliance for the Health & Social Care system and he leads on health cyber funding with Her Majesty's Treasury, commissions NHS Digital to deliver data security services to the Health & Social Care system as well as funding local cyber projects across the system. Phil also leads on national cyber incidents in healthcare in partnership with NHS Digital more

Paul Connelly, CSO, HCA Healthcare

Paul is a committed and passionate cybersecurity leader. He has developed strategy, built teams, selected technology, and implemented operational and crisis management processes for the first information security programs protecting the White House and the world’s largest private healthcare provider — HCA Healthcare. Paul led the programs for these two critical-risk... organizations for twenty-nine years as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Chief Security Officer (CSO) without a significant breach. He has more than 35 years of experience partnering with business and IT leaders to drive digital transformation, technology, crisis management, compliance, M&A strategy and implementation, and risk governance. Paul has been a Fortune 100 company officer and senior leader, a lead partner for a regional consulting practice at a big four public accounting firm, leader at a federal agency at the White House, and Communications Officer directly supporting three U.S. presidents. Paul is a developer of talent, with twenty-nine team members selected as CISOs for other organizations. He is a builder of culture as a company leader of ethics & compliance; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; employee engagement; and community service programs. His responsibilities included a U.K. division, and projects in more than two-dozen countries.   more

Paul Charnley, Digital Lead, Healthy Wirral Partners

Paul is currently the Digital Lead for Healthy Wirral Partners which works across the health and care sectors in his local area. Wirral is one of the “Places” in Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System. His role supports the development of a local integrated digital strategy that fits within the ICS strategy. He is also the co-Chair of the NHS England Transformation... Directorate Digital Blueprinting Steering Committee. He also does consultancy advisory work via St Vincents Consulting. Prior to that, Paul transitioned from CIO at Wirral Hospital to the Digital Lead role in the Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership (now ICS) to direct a set of shared programmes. These included a Longitudinal Care Record, Population Health Management, Personal Health Records, Digital Maturity in organisations and Infrastructure and Cybersecurity. These were in response to national and regional strategic objectives funded by initiatives such as the Health Service Led Investment (HSLI) which Paul helped shape as a CIO at one of the Global Digital Exemplars. During the Pandemic, Paul took on the added roles of coordinating the digital response which included the shift to remote consultation and the testing and outbreak management using a population health management system and then vaccination. He was very pleased to be voted CIO of the year for 2021 by DigitalHealth.com and was awarded the Cyber Leaders award by NHS Digital’s Cyber Associate Network in 2022. more

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. more

Adrian Jones, Country Manager UK & Ireland, Gatewatcher

Before starting at Gatewatcher, Adrian Jones was CEO of multifactor authentication provider Swivel Secure, successfully designing and delivering a business transformation programme. The Company now forms part of BIO-Key group. At authentication vendor Cryptocard, he drove sales and marketing teams across EMEA from a ‘niche’ position on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant... to one of the leading authentication companies in EMEA, culminating in their sale to SafeNet/ Gemalto (now Thales).
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Jack Misiura, Application Security Manager, The Missing Link

Jack, Application Security Manager at The Missing Link, is a Senior Software Engineer with over 17 years of experience. He is embedded at a leading Australian financial services institution as an Application Security Consultant. Jack has many zero-day discoveries from performing security research and code reviews. Additionally, he has trained many development teams... in secure coding practices. Jack holds both Offensive Security Certified Professional (OCSP) and Web Expert certifications.  more