Geo Focus: The United Kingdom

Andy Bates

Executive Director, Global Cyber Alliance

Andy Bates joined the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) in September 2017 as its Executive Director for the United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He brings more than 25 years of experience to GCA, having served as a Chief Engineer, Business Development Consultant, Product Development Director, IT Director in Racal, Cable & Wireless and Level3. Bates most recently served as the CTO at Verizon EMEA. While working across a range of technologies such as network, cloud, mobile, VOIP & identity, he has tended to specialize in large secure solutions for governments and challenging the status quo and conventional wisdom of security. He was deeply involved with systems such as Government Secure Intranet, PSN, Police National Network, as well as working with all the major UK government departments and international government customers and agencies, including NATO. Bates is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. He has presented at multiple conferences including RUSI, EU Parliament, Johannesburg, and Budapest.

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Fredrik Forslund

Vice President, Enterprise & Cloud Erasure Solutions, Blancco

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Alain Sanchez

Office of the CISO, Senior Evangelist, Fortinet

Alain Sanchez has 20 years of executive engagement experience in the Network and Telecommunications domain. In December 2018, he joined Fortinet CISO office from Huawei Global Consulting Department where he was in charge of the Digital Transformation Practice, advising the board of Companies like Virgin Media, Telcel, INWI, Vodafone UK, China Mobile as these Service Providers targeted the enterprise segment with B2B Cloud and Security offerings. Sanchez previously held executive positions in Alcatel-Lucent, Accenture, BT-Global Services and Nortel.

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Jeremy King

International Director, PCI Security Standards Council

Mr. King leads the Council's efforts in increasing adoption and awareness of the PCI Standards globally. In this role, Mr. King works closely with the Council's General Manager and representatives of its policy-setting executive committee from American Express, Discover, JCB International, MasterCard, and Visa, Inc. His chief responsibilities include gathering feedback from the merchant and vendor community, coordinating research and analysis of PCI SSC-managed standards through all international markets, and driving education efforts and Council membership recruitment through active involvement in local and regional events, industry conferences and meetings with key stakeholders. He also serves as a resource for Approved Scanning Vendors (ASVs), Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs), Internal Security Assessors (ISAs), PCI Forensic Investigators (PFIs), and related staff in supporting regional training, certification, and testing programs.

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Philip McInerney

Detective Inspector SCO7, Organised Crime Command, Cyber Crime Unit, Metropolitan Police

Detective Inspector Philip McInerney currently serves on the MPS Cyber Crime Unit, within Serious & Organised Crime (SCO7). Recently he has led a number of operations that have successfully targeted organised cyber criminals involved in high-level criminality, operating across the UK and internationally, including Op Bankime (dismantlement of OCG concerned in estimated £20 million+ of banking fraud during 2017), and Op Merlock (prolific cyber criminal operating across the UK banking sector, with several million pounds worth of fraud disrupted. Having initially been posted to uniform in East London, he served within the Major Crime Unit of borough CID, where McInerney became a Detective Constable. In 2003 he was selected to join SO12 Special Branch, working in a number of Counter Terrorism operations and roles (covert intelligence and operations) until January 2006. He was then selected to join the MPS Anti-Corruption Command (ACC), where he worked in covert intelligence development targeting corrupt police officers, and organised criminals who seek to corrupt officers. Between 2008 - 2013 McInerney served in a variety of roles in Westminster CID, as a Det Sgt in the Major Crime Unit and Serious Violence Team, targeting high-level fraud, violence & organised crime, and latterly as an Acting Detective Insp targeting organised crime within Soho and the West End. From Dec 2014 - Dec 2017 he served as Detective Inspector to the London Crime Squad (SCO8), leading a covert proactive unit targeting the highest levels of organised crime across London and the UK; formulating and utilising partnership with large corporations in the private sector affected by organised crime.

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Polly Ralph

Barrister and Solicitor, UK Data Protection Strategy, Legal and Compliance Services, PwC

Polly Ralph currently serves as a Director and member of the leadership team in PwC's Data Protection Strategy, Law and Compliance Services practice. She started her career in data protection/privacy in 2004, as an Investigations Lead at the New Zealand Privacy Commission. Since then, she has worked as a Privacy lawyer at the New Zealand Police National Headquarters, Senior Privacy Counsel at the BBC, and Group DPO at Domestic & General (a UK-headquartered insurance company). Since joining PwC UK in January 2016, Ralph has led large-scale GDPR projects and advised on ePrivacy, marketing, outsourcing, technology and international transfer issues. She has deep experience leading GDPR training sessions, including for PwC's international network of firms.

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Christopher Greany

Managing Director, Head of Group Investigations and Insider Threat Program, Barclays

Managing Director Christopher Greany is the head of Group Investigations at Barclays. Working as part of the Chief Security Office (CSO) he leads the strategic implementation and delivery of investigations across Barclays international footprint. He is also responsible for the Barclays Global Insider Threat Programme and cyber forensics capability. The CSO team is tasked with providing a holistic security footprint across all of Barclays international operations. Before joining Barclays Christopher had a policing career spanning over 30 years. His last role was leading the UK and international policing response to Economic Crime and Cyber Protection as Commander in the City of London Police. Previously he led the National Police Coordination Centre, coordinating the UK policing response to national and international crisis and disaster. He has extensive international experience and has led the response to a number of significant events and investigations impacting UK interests abroad.

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David Stubley

CEO, 7 Elements

Founder of 7 Elements, David Stubley brings over 17 years of experience within the technical security market, where he has held senior level positions within global blue-chip organisations. In this capacity, he was involved in the procurement of external security consultancy and testing resources. This valuable experience inspired Stubley to build a company that he himself would have wanted to work with during this time. A security testing and consultancy company that was responsive, technically astute and delivered tailored security testing as per organisation needs rather than off-the-shelf solutions.

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Mark Johnson

CISO, DPO & Cyber Security Advocate

Mark Johnson is a renowned cybercrime and security awareness trainer with over 40 years operational law enforcement & security experience worldwide. His background includes operational drug enforcement in the Central American region, military intelligence operations focusing on organised crime & counter-insurgency, telecoms network fraud investigations in 26 countries on all continents, online 'Catfishing' internet investigations into social engineering and phishing, training for police and other public sector cybercrime & online investigations as well as shipping, retail, IT and manufacturing security experience in multiple markets.

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John Walker

Visiting Prof., Nottingham Trent University; Advisory Board, Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS), University of Kent and Fmr Royal Air Force Security and Counter Intelligence

John Walker is a specialist providing consultancy to Middle East based organisations, government, and military clients. 22 years in Royal Air Force Security/Investigations and Counter Intelligence operations within a SCIF/Comint/Sigint environments, working alongside GCHQ, CESG, UK and US Agencies, ITSO and Systems Security Manager for CIA Accredited Systems, Visiting Professor School of Science/Technology - Nottingham Trent University [NTU], Advisory Board, Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS) - University of Kent, Mentor to Tallinn University (Estonia) Masters Students Cyber Research, Practicing and Registered Expert Witness, Certified Forensics Investigator Practitioner [CFIP], Editorial Member at MedCrave Research for Forensics & Criminology, ENISA CEI Listed Expert, Editorial Member of the Cyber Security Research Institute [CRSI], Digital Forensics/Cyber Security Listed Trainer in Dubai for Certified courses, Fellow of Royal Society for the Arts [FRSA], and a Belkasoft (Digital Forensics) Partner.

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Sarb Sembhi

CTO/CSO, Virtually Informed

Sarb Sembhi currently serves as the CTO & CISO at Virtually Informed. He is also the founder of Security2Live Initiative, which aims to raise Digital Safety Skills of all individuals (not just those who are lucky to receive the bare minimum in their enterprise employer). Previously, he was CTO & CISO for the Noord Group. His contributions to the industry include the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Defence and Security Committee and its Cybersecurity working group, an Advisor to the Internet of Things Security Foundation, Smart Buildings working group. Other contributions include: Past President of the ISACA London Chapter, Chair of ISACA International GRA Region 3 Sub-Committee, Chair of ISACA International GRA Committee, ISSA UK Advisory Group member, InfoSecurity Magazine Editorial Group member.

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Tim Ayling

Global Head of Fraud Prevention Solutions, Kaspersky Lab

Tim Ayling currently serves as the Global Head of Fraud Prevention Solutions at Kaspersky Labs. With over 20 years' experience in the cybersecurity and anti-fraud industry, Ayling began his career in technical support, and moved on to System Engineering. He began his leadership career when he established Entrust Inc. in Australia in 2003 and was made Vice-President Asia Pacific in 2006. Ayling has held numerous leadership roles in large cybersecurity vendors, including Trend Micro, RSA Security, and now Kaspersky Labs, as well as spending time in the cyber-security practise of KPMG.

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Andy Bates

Executive Director, Global Cyber Alliance

Andy Bates joined the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) in September 2017 as its Executive Director for the United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He brings more than 25 years of experience to GCA, having served as a Chief Engineer, Business Development Consultant, Product Development Director, IT Director in Racal, Cable & Wireless and Level3. Bates most recently served as the CTO at Verizon EMEA. While working across a range of technologies such as network, cloud, mobile, VOIP & identity, he has tended to specialize in large secure solutions for governments and challenging the status quo and conventional wisdom of security. He was deeply involved with systems such as Government Secure Intranet, PSN, Police National Network, as well as working with all the major UK government departments and international government customers and agencies, including NATO. Bates is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. He has presented at multiple conferences including RUSI, EU Parliament, Johannesburg, and Budapest.

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Paul Swarbrick

International CISO, Privacy and Digital Risk Expert

Paul Swarbrick's career spans over 25 years within the information security, privacy, assurance and governance arena in Europe and across the world. He is a Fellow of Cambridge University's Centre for Science and Policy and founding holder of the EC-Council's C:CISO certification for information assurance expertise. He works with many of the key cyber security forums to work on improving awareness and effective policy development and implementation nationally and at an organisational level. During his career, Swarbrick has worked with many international organisations across multiple industry sectors and several UK government departments, advising on and implementing the best and most pragmatic approaches to protecting information assets and systems, and on the implementation of new technologies and working practices.

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Nicky Dewhurst

Director, Darktrace

Nicky Dewhurst currently serves as a Director at Darktrace. In her fifteen years' experience working in the defence and security sector, she has worked extensively for the UK government with partners around the world to deploy cutting-edge operational capabilities to defend against a range of threats to national security and specialized in the UK cyber defense effort.

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Yehuda Lindell

Chief Scientist, Unbound Tech

Yehuda Lindell is a professor at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and the Chief Scientist at Unbound Tech. Yehuda attained his Ph.D. at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2002 and spent two years at the IBM T.J. Watson research lab as a Postdoctoral fellow in the cryptography research group. Yehuda has carried out extensive research in cryptography, and has published over 100 conference and journal publications. In addition to Yehuda's notable academic work, he has significant industry experience in the design and deployment of cryptography in a wide variety of scenarios.

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