Cyber Security

Jude McCorry is CEO of the Scottish Business Resilience Centre. She has over 20 years’ experience in the Technology sector and started her career with Dell computers in Ireland, she joined SBRC in April 2020 from The Data Lab where she was Director of Business Development working with industry and academia to maximise the value of data for Scotland.
She is one of the founders of the Unicef Data Hub for Children, and always ensures there is a social aspect to everything she does in order to benefit the people of Scotland or further afield. Jude is a board member of Parkinson’s Scotland and the Policy Board at SCDI.

Cheryl Torano is the Business Development Manager for Abertay cyberQuarter.

Her current role began in 2021 and is funded through Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Government.

Cheryl graduated from Abertay’s Ethical Hacking programme in 2017 having undertaken an accelerated BSc Hons degree.

Prior to that she studied HND Computer Networking and Internet Technology at Dundee and Angus College.

Following graduation, she worked in Abertay University’s digital marketing team until 2019 when she took up a role with Brightsolid as a Cyber Security Engineer. During this time, she completed an MBA in Business Administration in Cybersecurity.

Cheryl is on the Scottish Women in Cyber and Ladies Hacking Society committees, and a key member in the Scottish Cyber Cluster.

David is the Managing Director of Beyond Blue and Global Head of Cyber Futures at KPMG.
Over his 35 years in security, he has played a leading role in developing the UK’s cyber security strategy, including as the Head of Cyber and Space for the Ministry of Defence and the chair of the National Cyber Resilience Advisory Board for Scotland.
Cyber security has been his passion over the years, and he has worked with the largest firms in the world to bring cyber security to life as a topic for executives and boards.
David was made an OBE for his contribution to national security and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and the Institute for Information Security.

Dr Khamis is a reader/associate professor at the University of Glasgow, where he leads the SIRIUS Lab research group that works at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Security. Dr Khamis and his team work on understanding threats to privacy, safety and security that are facilitated or caused by ubiquitous technologies, such as mobile devices, thermal cameras, and Extended Reality sensors. He and his team then build human-centered systems and methods to mitigate these threats. Dr Khamis’ research is / has been funded the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the UK National Cyber Security Centre, Meta, and others. With 110+ publications in world class journals and conferences, he is an expert in human-centered security.

Alan is an ex-Police officer who now leads Cyber Security strategy at Registers of Scotland. Before his current role as Head of Cyber Security, he held various cyber positions, including ‘Senior Security Risk Advisor’ and ‘IT Security Technical Product Manager’. He is currently studying for a Masters’s Degree in ‘Advanced Security and Diviral Forensics’ at Edinburgh Napier University.

Bill Buchanan is a Professor in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University, and a Fellow of the BCS and the IET. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to cyber security. Currently he leads the Centre for Distributed Computing, Networks, and Security and The Cyber Academy (http://thecyberacademy.org).
His main research focus is around information sharing, such as using Trust and Governance Policies, threat analysis, cryptography, and triage within digital forensics. This has led to several World-wide patents, and in three highly successful spin-out companies: Zonefox (zonefox.com); Symphonic Software (www.symphonicsoft.com/); and Cyan Forensics (cyanforensics.com).
Bill regularly appears on TV and radio related to computer security, and has given evidence to the Justice Committee at the Scottish Parliament, along with being part of the BBC Scottish Independence Team of Experts (speciality: Cyber Security). This includes appearances on Newsnight Scotland, Good Morning Scotland, Panorama, and Radio 5 Newsdrive.
Bill was named as one of the Top 100 people for Technology in Scotland for 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. In Feb 2016, he was also included in the FutureScot “Top 50 Scottish Tech People Who Are Changing The World”. Recently his work on Secret Shares received “Innovation of the Year” at the Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards, for a research project which involves splitting data into secret shares, and can then be distributed across a public Cloud-based infrastructure. He was included in the JISC Top 50 Higher Education Social Media Influencers in 2015.

Lyndsey Jackson is a senior arts administrator and live event producer, and the Deputy Chief Executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world, and the greatest platform for artists and creatives to develop and showcase their talents on an international stage. Lyndsey supports the Fringe Society to deliver the Society’s vision, aims and objectives through motivational leadership and clear strategic direction, leading on business continuity, governance and strategic planning, digital innovation, ticketing and commercialisation, and the development of education outreach programmes that support the place of the festival in its host city. Lyndsey was also a Non Executive Director of the Organising Committee of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.