Cyber Security 2022

Mike Rogers retired from the U.S. Navy in 2018 after nearly 37 years of naval service rising to the rank of four-star admiral.   

He culminated his career with a four plus year tour as Commander, U.S. Cyber Command and Director, National Security Agency – creating the Department of Defense’s (DoD) then newest large war-fighting organization and leading the U.S. government’s largest intelligence organization.  In those roles, he worked with the leadership of the U.S. government, the DoD, and the U.S. Intelligence community, as well as their international counterparts in the conduct of cyber and intelligence activities across the globe with a particular emphasis on cyber security.  He also assisted in the development of national and international policy with respect to cyber security, intelligence, data, privacy and technology – including extensive work with corporate leadership in the Finance, IT, Telecommunications and Technology sectors.  

Admiral Rogers is currently supporting companies in the private sector, serving as a member of various Boards of Directors or Advisory Boards or acting as a Senior Advisor – primarily in the areas of cyber security, geopolitics, quantum technology, robotics, space, and advanced technologies.  He also speaks globally to various business and academic groups and is working internationally in the cyber security, technology and national security arenas.    

He is a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor with Northwestern University’s Kellogg Executive Leadership Institute and a member of the advisory boards of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue, Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security, and Sandia National Laboratory’s National Security Programs Division. He is also a member of the United States Naval Institute Board of Directors and works with the Joint Staff and National Defense University in the mentoring and professional development of DoD Flag and General officers. 

In order to continue the advancement towards digitization, Scotland perhaps needs to develop a roadmap for the integration of digital trust, identity and wallets, and in how data is shared across the public sector, especially in areas of health and social care. This, as much as possible, should be focused on the citizen, and aim to integrate with other evolving systems around the world, and respect privacy. Along with this, the evolution of new methods such as with homomorphic encryption could provide the public sector with the opportunity to better understand the demographics of the population, while supporting privacy-aware machine learning.

William (Bill) J Buchanan OBE FRSE  is a Professor of Applied Cryptography in the School of Computing, Edinburgh and the Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University. He is a Fellow of the BCS and a Principal Fellow of the HEA. Bill was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to cybersecurity, and,  in 2024, he was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).  His social media tagline reflects his strong belief in changing the world for the better: “A Serial Innovator. An Old World Breaker. A New World Creator.” Bill also has a strong belief in the power of education and in supporting innovation from every angle and currently leads the Blockpass ID Lab and the Centre for Cybersecurity, IoT and Cyberphysical.   Bill works in the areas of cryptography, blockchain, trust and digital identity. He has one of the most extensive cryptography sites in the World (asecuritysite.com), and is involved in many areas of novel research and teaching.  He has published over 30 academic books and over 450 academic research papers. Along with this, Bill’s work has led to many areas of impact, including a number of highly successful spin-out companies (including Zonefox, Symphonic Software and Cyan Forensics), along with awards for excellence in knowledge transfer and for teaching. He recently received an ”Outstanding Contribution to Knowledge Exchange” award and was included in the FutureScot “50 Scottish Tech People Who Are Changing The World”, along with being a regular keynote speaker at a range of conferences. Bill’s true academic passion is building, analysing and breaking cryptographic methods. 

Jude McCorry is CEO of the Cyber and Fraud Centre – Scotland. She has over 20 years’ experience in the Technology sector and started her career with Dell computers in Ireland, she joined the Cyber and Fraud Centre – Scotland 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.

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.

Ciara is the Head of Cyber at ScotlandIS and the cluster manager for Scotland’s cyber cluster. Her role involves supporting the development, growth and promotion of the Cyber security sector in Scotland, bringing the cyber community together across academia, public sector and industry including start-ups and investors in order to enable collaboration and innovation in this sector in addition to facilitating gaps or challenges to be addressed.
Ciara has extensive experience in the telecommunications and cyber security industry, having worked for BT for 20 years before freelancing for a cyber security start-up while completing a MBA at Heriot Watt Business School.
She joined ScoltandIS in August 2019 to take her current role of Head of Cyber.

Maggie is an extremely experienced and respected Leader, Board member and Advisor. She worked within law enforcement for over 30 years and then a further 5 years in the Finance sector most recently as Director Intelligence and Incident Response at Lloyds Banking Group.  She combines the unique blend of a senior private sector career with the highest level of international law enforcement management.  Maggie provides an unparalleled sociopolitical awareness matched with commercial expertise and is a strong advocate for new and emerging sectors and skills.  She is a mentor and advocate for promoting diversity in cyber skills. 

Since joining Sophos in 2011 Jon has enjoyed numerous roles from Channel Manager via Firewall Specialist to sales engineer. In his current role, Jon brings his passion for all things cybersecurity to the presentation stage talking about all the wonderful technologies and services that Sophos offer to keep your users secure. 

In May 2019 he was promoted to the rank of Deputy Chief Constable Crime and Operational Support.
In February 2019 he was appointed Assistant Chief Constable as the executive lead for the newly created Partnership, Prevention and Community Wellbeing portfolio with responsibility for developing new approaches to working with other Scottish public services to achieve better outcomes for communities and includes Safer Communities. Leading on preventative approaches to policing and community wellbeing, with a long term strategy focussing on collaboration, working in partnership across services and with communities, seeking to improve community wellbeing through tackling the underlying causes of crime and vulnerability.

David leads BlackBerry’s Sales Engineering Organisation across Europe, Middle East and Africa; his team, spread across the region, evangelise BlackBerry’s Cyber Security Portfolio and help BlackBerry Customers to identify and successfully execute their Cyber Security Strategies. At the heart of this is BlackBerry’s philosophy that Prevention is Possible and, through taking a Prevention First approach to Cyber Security, Customers can eliminate the noise and focus their efforts efficiently and effectively.

David is an ardent problem solver and technologist who embraces challenges and is always on the look out for elegant solutions.

David has been at BlackBerry since 2013, riding the wave that has seen BlackBerry transform from a Hardware Manufacturer to a leading Cyber Security Software Vendor. In his time with the business David has lead Enterprise Developer Relations and ISV Partnerships, partnered with Google bringing Android Enterprise to Market, and served as lead Solutions Architect for the EMEA region turning customer challenges into success with BlackBerry technologies.

Jim Hannah is acting CISO after joining Social Security Scotland in September 2019 as Security Operations Manager with responsibility for leading the operational teams across cyber, physical and personnel security.

Before that, he was IT Operations Manager and then CISO at the Department for International Development. He led on setting up a service centre to support a pan government secure collaboration system and spent five years serving in the Royal Navy Reserves.

Prior to becoming a civil servant he worked as Operations Director at Ceridian UK, and also held various senior positions delivering managed services to customers of Compaq and HP.

Dr. Tom Prunier has 20+ years of experience in information technology, security, and criminal investigations, specifically in the areas of risk management, incident response, audit, and computer forensics. Tom has been a leader for small and large teams for cyber efforts around the globe as well as across government and civilian sectors to include the Executive Office of the President of the United States, Department of Defense, and FBI. Tom is currently the interim CTO for Leidos UK & Europe.

Tom has a Bachelor’s Degree in Technology, a Master’s Degree in Information Management, and a Doctorate in Computer Science with emphasis on enterprise information systems. Tom is a Certified Chief Information security Officer (C|CISO), Certified Information System  Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Ethical Hacker (C|CEH).

Tom is a Professor at Colorado Technical University in the Doctoral Program and is published and has presented at various professional conferences to include ISC2 World Congress, Guidance Software Forensic Conference, SC Congress, and CSI Conference. Tom was a panel member of the 44th President of the United States Cyber Collaboration Task Force, Columbia University Future Tech Panel and the National Sheriff’s Associations Computer Technology Panel.

Following a 32 year career in policing which included leading cyber investigations in 2013 Keith joined the Scottish Government to support the development of cyber policy and strategy. In November 2015 the Scottish Government launched Safe, Secure, Prosperous a Cyber Strategy for Scotland which was followed in 2021 by The Strategic Framework for a Cyber Resilient Scotland.

Keith was responsible for establishing the Cyber Scotland Partnership a collaborative leadership approach to focus efforts on improving cyber resilience across Scotland. Keith is the Response Lead within the newly formed Scottish Cyber Co-ordination Centre (SC3), a collaborative function supporting combatting the accelerating threat of cyber attack to Scotland.

Scott Burden is NHS Tayside’s Service Delivery Manager with responsibility for Network infrastructure within the Digital Directorate, he has over 27 years’ experience in delivering and Managing NHS IT Solutions, and supporting large Enterprise Infrastructure within the Healthcare setting.  Scott has also in recent times had extensive involvement in Cyber Security measures for the Health Board and a keen believer in achieving stable, safe and secure delivery of Digital enabled Healthcare services to the local population.

Inspector Gallacher has served as a Police Officer, initially with Strathclyde Police, and now Police Scotland, for over 27 years.

Mark has undertaken a number of Operational and Corporate roles over the course of his career, his diverse portfolio ranges from managing critical incidents to inducting new recruits into the Service whilst Head of Probationer Training.

In September 2020 Mark was appointed to lead Police Scotland’s Cybercrime Harm Prevention Team.  He quickly developed strong relationships with key partners, working collaborating with them to continually achieve shared goals.

In the past year, the Cybercrime Harm Prevention Team has been shortlisted for a number of industry awards and in November 2021 were named the Outstanding Cyber Team at the Cyber Scotland Awards.

John is a Senior Consultant with CGI who has been working in security and telecoms around the globe for over 20 years.  With the majority of his career being based in Scotland he appreciates the particular challenges of the local geography.  While at THUS John gained his MBA from the Strathclyde Business School and this has enabled him to supplement his technical background with a business lens.  John has worked with senior stakeholders across the public sector, policing and enterprise to help articulate technical challenges in terms of business outcomes.  Most recently John has been actively engaged representing CGI on the NCSC working group for OT security, tailoring advice from the IT world for OT environments.  This has been of particular interest to him with his background working supporting some of the UKs largest Utilities.

Andy McClintock is Chief Digital Officer at Social Security Scotland. He is a passionate and proven digital leader with over 25 years’ experience in delivering private and public sector programmes and undertaking various assurance and advisory roles in the UK and Europe.

Combining traditional IT leadership expertise with innovative forward thinking, he provides energy, drive and determination in the development, design, and implementation of effective, sustainable and transformative technology and digital strategies, programs, and services for the new Executive Agency.

Andy has been recognised in the CIO 100 Awards, 2019, 2020, 2021 and by Holyrood Connect as Digital Leader 2020.

Steve has been with Cisco for 15 years and looks after the Cisco Security business in Scotland. Passionate about ‘doing the right thing’ for the customer, something that is part of the Cisco culture.

Before Cisco, Steve helped design some of the largest Optical networks on the planet, aged prematurely when working on ATM networks and laments the demise of IBM OS/2, a misunderstood OS ahead of its time.

Kevin is the National Security Operations Lead at NHS National Services Scotland.  He has worked within NHS IT & Cyber Security for 25 years.

He is responsible for building the national security operations capability.  The service will include security monitoring, engineering, vulnerability management, incident response, threat intelligence and threat hunting.

Richard Jones joined Foreign and Commonwealth office and completed 26 years of technology and engineering work including a very strong security element. Moving to Leidos in 2014, Richard lead the Security Management function for a large HMG client covering all aspects of IT security including Cyber Operations.  Subsequently, Richard has invested in both the people and technology to develop the Leidos UK Cyber security offering for our clients.  Richard’s team provides support to national bodies with a focus on Government, Defence, National Security, Critical National Infrastructure, and key public services.  Our strong relationships with key partners in providing Cyber solutions brings innovation and assurance wherever and whenever our customers need it.

Neil has a deep understanding of IT support and cyber security, and extensive experience of working with a wide range of companies.

As technical lead for the Cyber Essentials Scheme, Neil is also a key member of the IASME and NCSC Joint Technical Working Group. He has regular liaisons with major IT providers to ensure IASME has the latest updates on issues like end of life for commonly used software.

A SASE Solution Specialist with over 25yrs in the IT industry.  Laterally, Joe was 2 years at a Hyperscaler working on Digital Transformation Projects gaining invaluable experience with all things of a cloudy nature before returning to Cisco.