Speakers

Angus Alderman, Information Security Officer, Boden

Angus is a senior Information Security and IT professional with over twenty years of experience delivering security and compliance to companies in a range of sectors including financial services, payments, and retail.
Leveraging his background from hands-on IT and security operations, Angus has taken companies through a transformative journey, enhancing their resilience... to meet the evolving regulatory landscape and cybersecurity threats.
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Muhammad Emal Khan, Security Consultant Senior Information, Lidl

Muhammad Emal Khan is a Senior Information Security Consultant at Lidl with over 16 years of experience in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), Information Security, Systems Auditing, and Process Improvement. He has a proven track record of developing and implementing robust security programs that align with organizational strategy and strengthen cyber resilience.... Throughout his career, Muhammad has led the successful implementation of PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, and SOC 2 across multiple industries, including financial services and service providers, collaborating with teams across 5 continents and 14 countries. He also spearheaded the "Human Firewall" security awareness and training initiative, fostering a strong culture of security within organisations. Passionate about advancing IT governance policies and driving innovation in security programs, Muhammad focuses on reducing exposure, increasing awareness, and building resilient governance frameworks that enhance organisational defences.
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Klaus-E. Klingner, Information Security Officer, Asambeauty

Klaus-E. Klingner is an experienced Information Security Officer specialising in security awareness, threat management, and innovative KPI concepts such as The Coffee Factor. He began his career in 1999 at Dresdner Bank as a web application developer and later held key roles at Allianz Technology SE, including Divisional Security Officer for Digital Interaction. After... helping to establish the Threat Management and Prevention team at Brenntag SE, he has been serving as the Information Security Officer at M. Asam GmbH since 2023. A CISSP, CISM, Certified Web Application Penetration Tester, ISO27001 Implementer, and Data Privacy Specialist, Klaus is also a respected international speaker on gamified security awareness, cyber incident simulation, and security culture transformation.more

Glenn Wilkinson, Ethical hacker and Ambassador for the Hacking Games

Glenn Wilkinson is an ethical hacker, and Ambassador of the Hacking Games. He has worked with organisations ranging from law firms and banks to airports and retailers and has spoken at conferences around the world, including Black Hat, DEF CON, and AWS.

Dr Lee Hadlington, Chartered Psychologist

Dr Lee Hadlington is a Chartered Psychologist, Senior Lecturer in Cyberpsychology, and a member of the Cyberpsychology research group. He is current co-course leader for the MSc Cyberpsychology course, and his current teaching focuses on Cyberpsychology, Online Risk taking, Human Factors in Cybersecurity, Cybercrime and victimisation,... Psychometrics and Research Methods. His recently published book Human Factors and Cybersecurity examines the intricate interplay between human behaviour and digital security.more

Adaora Ezennia, GRC Lead, THG PLC

...Adaora Ezennia is the GRC Lead at THG PLC, a global e-commerce group operating through two leading consumer businesses: THG Beauty and THG Nutrition.  A specialist in cybersecurity governance, compliance, and risk management with a Master’s in Cloud and Network Security and ISO 27001:2022 ISMS certification. Passionate about AI governance and privacy risk management.more

Rory Shannon, Global VP Engineering, Cyderes

Rory has spent most of his working career in Security Operations, having undertaken almost every role in the SOC over the years.Prior to that Rory worked in Scottish law enforcement, specialising in intelligence and surveillance roles. In his current role as Cyderes Vice President of Engineering, he is accountable for our technical go to market teams and our product... strategy, ensuring this is aligned with the needs of our customers. He has technical expertise and experience across a wide array of security domains and technologies including detection & response, governance and compliance, SIEM, EDR, Threat management and threat and vulnerability management. Passionate about delivering the best security outcomes aligned with a world class customer experience, Rory brings this ethos into the work he does with Cyderes.Prior to joining Cyderes, Rory lead the delivery of a managed service organisation in the UK, taking it from 6 colleagues (in a basement office) to a team of over 120 delivering enterprise grade services to some of the UKs largest organisations, taking the company through a management buyout in 2019.When not working on security innovation and customer experience, Rory can generally be found drinking craft beer, reading books about wizards and listening to angry music that he should really have grown out of.
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Laurent Strauss, CyberSecurity Strategist, OpenText

Laurent Strauss is a Cyber Security Strategist at OpenText with great passion for emerging Trends & Technologies. He spent over 20 Years in various areas of the IT Industry with expertise in Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Cloud and Cyber Security. He is also part of a faculty board lecturing Web 3.0 Security.

Christiaan Beek, Senior Director of Threat Intelligence & Analytics, Rapid7

Christiaan Beek is a highly experienced security leader with over 25 years in cybersecurity research, threat intelligence, digital forensics and data science. As Senior Director of Threat Intelligence & Analytics at Rapid7, he leads strategic intelligence research, focusing on collecting, correlating, and visualising threat data, developing new research techniques,... and publishing key findings. He holds multiple patents, with many more pending. As a contributor to the field, Christiaan contributed to the best-selling book "Hacking Exposed" and wrote a comic book about ransomware. He also contributes to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, Rapid7’s AttackerKB, and other open-source frameworks. Christiaan is a visionary leader who serves on security startup boards, is part of the Cyber Threat Alliance’s steering committee, and acts as a Special Advisor to Europol. He is a regular speaker at prominent industry events like the RSA Conference, BlackHat, and BlueHat, and his expert insights have been featured in numerous news outlets and prime-time news programmes.more