Virtual Cybersecurity & Fraud Summit: London 2020

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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Jasbir Singh Solanki

CEO - Homeland & Cyber Security, Mahindra Defence Systems Limited

Jasbir is the Chief Executive Officer of Mahindra Defence System Limited (Division - Homeland & Cyber Security), a Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd company.

He is an Armed Forces Veteran and global business leader with extensive experience in business development, new product & concept creation, collaboration & strategic partnership, sales & project management team development in Defence, Homeland Security & Smart Cities industry.

His lead from front style of leadership, combined with sharp focus on customer experience has helped Mahindra Defence emerge as one the leading Defence & Security solution providers in India.

In a career spanning 18+ years, Jasbir has held several leading & challenging positions with Indian Navy & Mahindra group. He was the youngest head of technical department who prepared Indian Navy sail ship INS Tarangini for the first circumnavigation voyage and sailed onboard it for seven months. Among few in the world who have been fortunate to sail across Atlantic Ocean on a sail ship. He was awarded on the spot Chief of Navy Staff commendation for saving/salvage operations of INS Agray, Anti Submarine Warfare ship at sea. He lead Mahindra team to win & deliver the World's Largest Integrated Police Emergency Management system catering to 220 Million population from a single command & control centre which include our vehicles, people & technology.

A mechanical graduate with distinction from Pune University, Marine Engineer certification from Indian Naval Institute, Lonavla, Master in Financial Management from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management, Mumbai, Armed Force Management Certification, MDI Gurgaon are some of his key educational qualification.

Jasbir has been a key note speaker at some of the leading defence & security conferences such as Counter Terror Expo- London, Oil & Gas summits-Singapore, Smart Cities - Delhi, Port Security- Mumbai. He is a distinguish member of FICCI Homeland Security committee and plays active role in industry collaboration bodies & Government committees on National Security domain.

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Bobby Ford

VP, Global CISO, Unilever

Prior to joining Unilever, Ford was the CISO for Abbott Labs, a global life sciences organization. With a diverse background in cybersecurity, he has spent the bulk of his career in the aerospace and defense industry. As a soldier in the U.S. Army, he was one of the charter information security analysts for the Pentagon Computer Incident Response Team.

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Simon Jackson

Director Systems Engineering, A10 Networks Inc

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Andrew McGuigan

Security Engineer Manager, Global Accounts, Check Point Software Technologies

Andrew McGuigan is the Security Engineering Manager for Global & Strategic Accounts at Check Point Software Technologies. He leads a team of security experts, supporting large global organisations across multiple sectors, including finance, retail, telecommunications, manufacturing and critical infrastructure. Andrew joined Check Point in 2004, and has more than 20 years’ experience working in Cyber Security.

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Nic Miller

Virtual CISO, Aedile Consulting

Miller is the owner and director of Aedile Consulting, a U.K.-based company specializing in cybersecurity. Previously, he was CISO for Brevan Howard, a global hedge fund, and security operations lead for IG, a financial services firm that provides a derivatives trading platform. He began his career at the UK intelligence agency GCHQ, working on cybersecurity, counter-terrorism and other issues.

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Becky Pinkard

CISO, Aldermore Bank PLC

Mentioned on the '100 Global CISOs for 2020' list and awarded 'CISO of the Year, 2020' by SC Awards Europe, Becky Pinkard is a renowned practitioner and commentator on the information security sector who has been working in information technology and security since 1996.

A security transformation expert, Becky is experienced with business case preparation and execution through to funding and implementation. She has excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to distil highly technical concepts for an executive audience. Becky has strong vendor management and relationship-building capabilities. Her background and experience to date has provided her with broad information security expertise, coupled with in-depth, technical capabilities around cyber security and data monitoring, vulnerability and risk assessment, web application security and policy development.

Becky is an active advocate for promoting diversity and inclusion in business and is a co-founder of the 'We Empower Diversity in Start-ups' (WEDS) group. She has been a CyLon mentor since 2017, providing cyber security, operations and client success guidance to entrepreneurs. She also co-hosts a monthly podcast, Cyber Warrior Princess, focused on current cyber security related commentary.

Becky was a SANS Certified Instructor for over a decade and served as a GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst advisory board member and on the Strategic Advisory Council for the Center of Internet Security. She co-authored "Nmap in the Enterprise" and "Intrusion Prevention and Active Response, Deploying Network and Host IPS". Becky has shared her expertise in numerous publications, both written and in live interviews all over the world, including: The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, ChannelPost, The Telegraph, The New York Times, BBC News, Channel 4 News, and more.

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Scott McAvoy

Cloud Security Competency Lead, IBM

An information security professional with over 20 years of experience leading teams in technical environments, across highly regulated industries and delivering complex solutions. Historically I have designed, built and supported integrated security solutions on-premise or in data centres and have transformed this experience and my skills to apply to the Cloud. I have a broad understanding across all security domains and specialise in applying this agnostically to Public Cloud and DevOps environments. Having supported production workloads for UK Government on AWS from 2010 onwards I have seen the public cloud emerge and mature. Initially I supported clients to understand the cloud landscape technically and influence decision makers and accreditors to gain approval to transform and modernise workloads, whilst maintaining necessarily high levels of security. Now my team and I design and delivery solutions across all Cloud Service Providers and industries with a recent focus on enterprise level Financial Services.

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Lee Harris

MSSP & Cloud Pak for Security Sales Leader, IBM EMEA

Lee Harris served eight years in the British Army before embarking on a career in IT Sales. With 26 years sales experience across IT, he has spent the last 15 years in Cyber Security. Joining IBM 6 years ago specialising in Threat Detection and Remediation, he has worked in most sectors of the market, concentrating on MSSP's for the last three.

He now leads the Sales Strategy in EMEA for MSSP's and Cloud Pak for Security.

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Sam Humphries

Head of Security Strategy, EMEA, Exabeam

Samantha has been happily entrenched in the cybersecurity industry for over 20 years. During this time she has helped hundreds of organizations of all shapes, sizes, and geographies recover and learn from cyberattacks, defined strategy for pioneering security products and technologies, and is a regular speaker at security conferences around the world. In her current regeneration, Sam is part of the security strategy team at Exabeam, where she has responsibility for anything that has “cloud” in the name. She authors articles and blogs for various security publications, has a strong passion for mentoring, and often volunteers at community events, including BSides, The Diana Initiative, and Blue Team Village (DEFCON).

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Chris Goettl

Director of Product Management, Ivanti

Goettl is the Director of Product Management for security products at Ivanti. Chris has over 15 years of experience working in IT, where he supports and implements security solutions for Ivanti customers and guides the security strategy and vision for Ivanti security products. He is also a security evangelist speaking at security events globally where he gives guidance around modern cyber threats and how to combat them effectively. Chris hosts a monthly webinar focusing on Patch Tuesday and security vulnerabilities, and frequently blogs about security topics. You can find contributed articles as well as commentary from Chris in notable security news sources like SC Magazine, Redmond Magazine, ComputerWorld, ThreatPost, Help Net Security, and more.

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Marika Dziuba

Technical Solution Specialist - EMEA, Intel

Marika Dziuba is a PC security and manageability specialist in the EMEA region. She is part of a worldwide team responsible for Intel business client platforms, end-point security solutions and other enterprise products. Serving as a trusted technical advisor Marika is providing oversight and technical guidance to resolve considerably complex issues to enterprise customers and government institutions often working with leading technology companies. Marika holds an engineering degree in Computer Science and Electronics.

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Jeff Kilford

UK Client Compute Group Director, Intel

Jeff Kilford worked in Intel IT for 25 years in a variety of leadership roles spanning client, server and applications development. In 2018 he moved from Director of EMEA IT to lead Intel's Client Compute Group in the UK. Jeff is a senior subject matter expert on IT strategy, specialising in client fleet management and cloud strategy.

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Andrew Rose

Resident CISO - EMEA, Proofpoint

Andrew Rose is Resident CISO for the EMEA Region at Proofpoint. His focus is driving Proofpoint's people-centric security vision, strategy and initiatives amongst the company's customer base, bringing hands on experience, knowledge and perspective in managing risk and improving cyber security posture across complex enterprises. Andrew was previously Chief Security Officer of Mastercard subsidiary Vocalink, who are responsible for much of the UK's instant and bulk payments covering over 90% of UK salaries, over 70% of UK bill payments and nearly all UK benefit payments.

Andrew brings with him a wealth of additional industry expertise from a number of CISO roles including at the UK's Air Traffic Control provider, NATS, where he oversaw a security transformation and contributed to the design of the next generation air traffic control system. Andrew has also held CISO roles at top tier global law firms Allen & Overy LLP and Clifford Chance LLP and was a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research where he covered the role of the CISO and Security Culture and Awareness as two of his specialty areas.

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Mark Walmsley

CISO, Freshfields Law Firm

Mark Walmsley is an experienced chief information security officer. He studied law before joining a number of small boutique private investigation agencies. The majority of Marks professional career has been spent within the legal industry, working within litigation before moving to business services where he managed high-value, complex programmes of work.

Mark has led Freshfields information and cyber security capability for the last six years and had a year secondments to the National cyber Security Centre (part of GCHQ) where he helped manage the government and legal industry engagement.

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Andrew Barnard

Senior Sales Engineer, Shape Security

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Winston Krone

Global Managing Director, Kivu

Krone is sr risk advisor at Cambridge Center for Risk Studies. Helping global companies manage emerging cyber risks using a rigorous scenario-based framework. Previusly he was with Kivu Consulting.

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Kadir Levent

Chief Operating Officer, CyberClan

Kadir started his career in cyber security as a Digital Forensic Investigator within the Metropolitan Police Service where he successfully aided multiple high profile criminal investigations. Since then, he has worked for a major UK retailer as a Cyber Security Manager where he managed and coordinated incident response efforts at a global scale. Kadir went on to work within the cyber insurance industry as a senior incident response specialist in London giving him vast experience in the Lloyds Insurance market and a deep understanding on the cyber claims process. Kadir now leads NTL’s U.K entity from London, whilst supporting NTL’s global operational processes.

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Ed Lewis

Partner, Weightmans

Edward leads the firm's Specialty and Financial Lines practice, comprising of more than 40 lawyers nationally. His expertise spans multiple classes of insurance business, predominantly in the fields of Finance, Digital & Data, Construction and Science & Technology. He acts for insurers and nominated policyholders in the UK and internationally, advising on corporate strategy, insurance law and coverage, risk transfer and litigation. Edward is also the lead lawyer in CyXcel, a unique multidisciplinary service from Weightmans which launched in 2018 and provides comprehensive advice and solutions for digital and data resilience, incident planning, crisis management and response. The CyXcel team acts for insurers, public bodies and commercial organisations of all sizes. The team's work in the last year has included some the most high-profile cyber security incidents, state-sponsored ransoms and multi-jurisdiction data breaches; as well as delivering targeted consultancy on cyber maturity, operational impact modelling, privacy vulnerability, GDPR compliance and risk transfer.

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Mark Singer

Claims Focus Group Leader - London Market & Wholesale Cyber & Tech, Beazley Group

Mark Singer currently serves as Claims Focus Group Leader for the Cyber & Executive division of Beazley. He primarily handles insurance coverage issues arising out of cybersecurity, technology errors & omissions, data privacy, intellectual property, media and advertising liabilities. As a UK qualified lawyer, and before joining Beazley, he was a Senior Associate in the commercial litigation team at a large City law firm where he handled a wide range of complex contractual disputes.

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Tom Smith

Solutions Architect, Veracode

Tom Smith is a Solution Architect and keen technologist with over 12 year's of industry experience delivering security consultancy across a wide range of industry verticals. Tom saw the DevOps movement as an unmistakable sign that the industry was evolving with traditional security technologies and methods being left behind. He turned to application and cloud security to further his goal of spreading the benefits of DevSecOps.

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Fredrik Forslund

Vice President, Enterprise & Cloud Erasure Solutions, Blancco

With a keen eye for streamlining corporate IT security efficiencies and maintaining compliance with data privacy legislation, Forslund serves as a trusted adviser to customers. He understands the operational, financial and cultural nuances of driving global business growth. In addition to guiding customers through data erasure and working with Blancco’s internal teams, he speaks at industry conferences.

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