Graham joined National Grid as CISO and Global Head of Digital Risk in April 2014 after holding senior positions in cybersecurity with organisations in Ministry of Defence, Central Government and in the private sector. He joined National Grid from Northrop Grumman where he led their UK Cyber and Intelligence interests.; and prior to that was Deputy Director of the Office of Cyber Security in the Cabinet Office where he was responsible for leading the planning and resourcing of the National Cyber Security Strategy. Graham has also acted as the Special Advisor on Cyber Security for the House of Commons Defence Committee; and currently chairs the UK pan-sector Emergency Executive Committee for Cyber Security.
James Snook is Deputy Director: Business, Crime and Skills in the Office for Cyber Security in Cabinet Office. A career civil servant James has held a number of roles across Cabinet Officer and HM Treasury. His career has focussed on national security, and cyber security, especially, in recent years.
Dr Deborah Petterson is responsible for leading the DECC (Department of Energy & Climate Change) work on cyber security of the UK energy supply; ensuring that any risks to critical infrastructure are understood and appropriate mitigations are established. She is a Senior Civil Servant with experience in a number of Government departments as well as consultancy; combining a broad Whitehall experience with private sector skills and a scientific background. Deborah has experience working with the energy sector in the UK and overseas, working on domestic and international policy. This included energy in the Middle East, working with the Government of Iraq and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; she represented the UK at the International Energy Forum.
Chris became Director of Gas Distribution in June 2015. He is accountable for serving c.11 million customers across 4 gas distribution networks; operating the system and maintaining it safely. This involves responding to 500,000 emergency jobs and replacing 1600kms of metal mains a year and operating the National Gas Emergency Number on behalf of all distribution networks. Gas Distribution also connect new customers to the network, both domestic and through different energy sources such as biomethane. Prior to this, he was Group Director, Safety, Sustainability & Resilience from March 2014 and Director, Market Operation for 7 years before this. With over 20 years’ experience within the energy and utility sector, operating critical national infrastructure, he has held a number of engineering regulation and commercial positions. Chris was also awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours list 2014 for services to the Gas and Electricity Industry as Chair of the Energy Emergency Executive Committee.
Robin is an experienced business professional with a long track record within the security technology sector. His roles have included responsibilities for enterprise level systems management software sales (IBM and CA), public and private sector account management, product management and marketing. He brings to Deep-Secure a wide portfolio of skills and experience including 5 years as a Senior Client Manager within QinetiQ with specific focus on Information Assurance within the Defence, Public Services and Commercial sectors. Robin holds key relationships with a number of influential decision makers who are considering the impact that UK SMEs can have within the Cyber Security arena. Robin is an Associate member of AFCEA and actively contributes to UKCeB, ADS and the Malvern Cyber Security Cluster.
Michel van Leeuwen (1971) has a Master degree in Public Administration from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. After working as a policymaker at the Justice Department on labor relations and organizational change, he was assistant to the director-general for international affairs and immigration. The following six years he was programme manager in the knowledge center for urban development. Returning to the Justice Department he was responsible for surveillance and protection policy in the Netherlands at the National Coordinator for Counterterrorism. Currently helps government and private organizations achieve a better cybersecurity by leading the cybersecurity policy department at the Directorate for Cybersecurity, within the Ministry of Security and Justice. Alongside this role he leads the cybersecurity team for the Dutch EU-presidency 2016.
Chris Gibson has spent over 12 years working in the CERT world at Citigroup and, for the last 9 years, has been part of the leadership of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST); the last 2 as Chair. Together these have allowed him to work with colleagues from both inside one of the worlds largest global financial institutions with the complexities that brings and also with colleagues from the incident response community with members ranging from Microsoft and Oracle through to the national CERT’s of Azerbaijan and Indonesia. At Citigroup he was responsible for the digital forensic program and strategy globally, including all operational aspects of investigations into Cybercrime in Citigroup’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. This included overseeing both the digital forensics and the investigation as well as reporting to senior management on on-going cases, trends and threats. Within FIRST he implemented the Fellowship program. This was created to fund CERTs from UN designated “Least Developed Nations” (LDCs) allowing them to both join FIRST and attend conferences and training thereby starting to create the relationships that bring the most benefits to the incident response community. He is a former member of the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) Cyber Advisory Panel. Chris joined CERT-UK in November 2013.
Jeremy is a Director within Deloitte’s Cyber Risk Services team, having joined in 2008. He has over 14 years’ experience in the field of cyber security, and currently focuses much of his efforts on smart metering and smart grids. Within Deloitte, Jeremy leads the Energy & Resources Cyber Security team, and is responsible for the delivery of a range of client projects within the sector, including multi-year cyber implementations and transformations, technical security reviews and risk assessments, policy and standard creation, strategy, and internal audits. As a result, he frequently interacts with all levels within client organisations: from technical staff up to senior management and executives, as well as Government and regulators. Prior to joining Deloitte, Jeremy held various positions at BP where he was employed for 4 years, which is what sparked his interest in the industry, and particularly Industrial Control Systems. Following obtaining an MSc in Information Security from Royal Holloway University he started his cyber security career as a penetration tester within a small start-up company specialising in application testing.
Patrick Curry, OBE CEng MIET MBCS is the Director, British Business Federation Authority (BBFA), tasked with enabling the implementation of federated identity & access management, including employee authentication, across industry and with UK Government and other governments. He has a background in military information management, identity management and international secure collaboration. He has held senior roles in a range of information and identity-centric management initiatives across UK government and international aerospace and defence sectors, including homeland security and the UK National Identity Scheme. He was instrumental in the establishment of federated trust mechanisms for US/UK/Europe secure collaboration for aerospace and defence, founding the Transatlantic Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP), with governments and major companies, and helping to found the CertiPath PKI Bridge. He has worked in UK government organisations, and with European agencies and governments from around the world. He is also CEO, Multinational Alliance for Collaborative Cyber Situational Awareness (MACCSA), which involves companies and governments from 30+ nations and international organisations in enabling the sharing of cybersecurity information. He is involved in development of the international and national security policies and standards. He is the co-editor on ISO 29003 – Identity Proofing & Verification of Persons, Organisations, Devices and Software.
Joe Dauncey is the Head of Information Risk & Security for SSE, a vertically integrated, downstream energy provider operating in the UK and Ireland, with 20,000 employees. Joe leads SSE’s security programme, as well as the security architecture and operations capability. Joe has been working in security for over 17 years, with the last nine years in the energy sector. Joe has previous experience in Managed Security Services and Telecoms. Joe chairs the Energy Networks Association Cyber Security Subgroup
Chris Hankin was appointed Professor of Computing Science in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London in 1995 having joined the College as a Lecturer in Computing in 1984. He holds a first degree in Computer Science from City University (London) and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of London (1979). He is currently Director of the Institute for Security Science. He leads multidisciplinary projects focussed on developing advanced visual analytics and providing better decision support to defend against cyber attacks. He is Director of the CPNI/EPSRC Research Institute on Trustworthy Industrial Control Systems which studies cyber security of critical national infrastructure and industrial control systems. He was chair of the Lead Expert Group for the Government Office of Science’s Policy Futures Foresight report on Future Identities. He is immediate past President of the Scientific Council of INRIA, the French national institute for research in computer science and control, and was Vice Chair of the DG CONNECT Advisory Forum for the European Commission until 2015.
Sam Kirby-French heads up the Cyber Security Consulting capability within Thales UK, delivering projects into the Ministry of Defence, Government and Critical National Infrastructure. His team are focused on delivering client side information assurance and cyber security advice to customers with highly complex, safety critical systems, normally with a high degree of imbedded technology and industrial control systems. Recent projects have had an increasing focus on autonomy and have had to be delivered to satisfy multiple accreditation and compliance requirements. A former Army Officer, Sam joined Thales from Deloitte and is educated with an MBA and an MSc in International Finance. He has spent the past 7 years working as a consultant on large, security related, IT programmes.
Johan Rambi is Corporate Privacy & Security Advisor within the department Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) and is responsible for the development of Corporate Privacy & Security policy and guidelines. Furthermore Johan supports the Alliander organization with Privacy & Security assessments, requirements and measures in the role of subject matter expert. As a former Privacy & Security officer Johan implemented and monitored the controls of the Privacy Audit Proof certification for the Smart Metering processes in the organization. Johan Rambi is active in several European expert groups (EECSP, EG2, NIS platform) for the European Commission and standardization committees (CSCG, SG-CSP) on Privacy and Cyber Security. Johan is a known speaker at European conferences on Privacy, Smart Meter- and Smart Grid Cyber Security. Before Johan joined Alliander, he worked as security architect and consultant at different organizations for the last 18 years.
Raj Roy is Legal Director for Residential Energy at British Gas where he is responsible for consumer affairs, competition and privacy. Prior to this, he was at Vodafone for the past nine years where he served most recently as Lead Counsel for Regulatory Affairs where his portfolio included competition law, telecoms regulation and privacy. In that capacity, he led Vodafone’s regulatory litigation on a number of strategic issues, including switching processes and interconnection charge controls and managed the process that secured regulatory approval for Vodafone’s groundbreaking network sharing collaboration with Telefonica.
Fabien is EDF Energy’s Smart Metering Programme Security Manager. He is responsible for the compliance of live infrastructure operational security. He is also responsible for the security assurance of all projects delivering the additional capabilities for the business to operate in the enduring phase of the GB Smart Metering Implementation Programme. Fabien is a member of a number of external industry security groups delivering security governance for smart metering. Prior to joining EDF Energy, Fabien led the security assurance work packages in large system deployments for both the Defence sector and Critical National Infrastructure operators. Throughout his 16 years career in security, Fabien has contributed to the development of innovative risk assessment approaches and been an advocate of Security by Design.
Alex has been helping customers apply emerging innovative technology to gain advantage and mitigate risk in a career spanning nearly three decades. Prior to Exabeam he started-up EMEA operations for what became leading public companies in data security, SIEM and network firewalls; he is consequently able to quickly assess and articulate the business impact of today’s advanced cyber security threats. Alex holds a BSc Honours degree in Computer Science from Imperial College.
Luke Beeson is Vice President of Security for BTs UK and Global Banking and Financial Markets customers. He is a Chartered Engineer and member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology. Prior to joining BT Luke worked for Honeywell on Industrial Security projects in the Oil and Gas sector, predominantly in the Middle East. Since joining BT nine years ago he has had a number of roles all with a focus on Service Delivery and more recently Security Service Delivery. Previously General Manager of BTs Cyber Defence Operations Luke spent two years in this role building and running a team of Security experts to counter the ever increasing cyber security threat. Before this Luke was General Manager of BTs Metal Theft Task Force responsible for all BTs activities to minimise the impact of cable theft on its customers. As well as driving a number of internal initiatives to minimise the service impact of cable theft he also worked externally with Industry partners, Law Enforcement Agencies and Government to help increase the level of collaborative working to tackle the problem ultimately resulting in changes to legislation. As Vice President, Security UK and Global Banking and Financial Markets Luke is now working to take BTs continually evolving security capability to market.
Moulinos is the manager of ENISA's ICS-SCADA and smart grid security project. He he has worked for more than 10 years as an information systems auditor. Moulinos has been awarded a diploma in informatics, a master of science in information systems and a Ph.D. in privacy enhancing technologies. He has more than 20 peer-reviewed publications covering areas such as information and network security, data protection and privacy-enhancing technologies.
Ben Lowater is Deputy Director Cyber Security for Critical National Infrastructure. His team comprises of people from across GCHQ who are working to deliver the outcome that the UK has a less vulnerable and more resilient critical national infrastructure. The CNI Mission Team works closely with the Centre of the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) and the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UK). Ben’s previous post was a Deputy Director for Security Mission Delivery which ensured GCHQ provides the right IA support and advice to major government projects from PSN and G-Cloud through to universal credit as well as the more traditional security mission support to High End crypto services for Government. He also worked on programmes to scale up the CESG work through the use of industry partners. Ben has previously worked as Deputy Director HR responsible for a wide range of HR and Corporate Development interventions including implementing a workforce plan for GCHQ, divestment through early retirement schemes, GCHQ’s first engagement strategy and collaborative working with the other UK intelligence agencies on shared HR services. Ben joined GCHQ in 1996 on the fast-stream management development programme. Ben is married with 4 children (3 girls and a boy).
Rob is Head of Cyber Security & Information Assurance Regulation at the UK’s Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR). Rob leads a team of specialist inspectors within Civil Nuclear Security, who are responsible for auditing and regulating Cyber Security and Information Assurance across the whole of UK’s civil nuclear sector (UK Tier 1 Critical National Infrastructure). ONR is the only specialist (non-financial) security and safety regulator of the UK’s Critical National Infrastructure. Rob has 20 years’ experience in managing intelligence, counter-intelligence, security and telecommunications within the MOD and crown sectors. Prior to this appointment, Rob led cyber security programme assurance and policy management for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). Rob holds degrees in Advanced Security & Digital Forensics (from Edinburgh Napier University), Defence Technology (from Cranfield) and a first class honours degree in Politics & International Relations (from LSE). He is a professional member of the British Computer Society and is an affiliate of both the Institute of Risk Management (IRM) and the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP).