Dr John Meakin
Group Head of Information Security, Standard Chartered Bank
John has been responsible for leading systems security policy and strategy in Reuters, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Swiss Bank Corporation, and the investment-banking arm of Dresdner Bank. For the last five years he has led a global information security team at Standard Chartered Bank, facing the challenges posed by a geographically and culturally diverse organisation.
Phil Cracknell, FBCS, CISSP, Security Advisor
Phil is regarded as one of the UK’s leading security specialists. He has over 20 years experience gained in a variety of high-profile technical and managerial commercial and government security roles.
- He was seconded to NHS CFH to design and implement security compliance auditing and an incident response programme for the NHS central N3 network
- A former President of the ISSA UK chapter – Phil doubled the UK membership during his term in office
- SC cleared
He has worked extensively in the field of penetration testing, audit, firewall design and management, implementation of ecommerce security and PKI deployment.
- From 1998-2000 Phil was the Global Head of Information Security for Japanese investment banking giant Nomura
- Extensive experience of security in the intelligence communities
- He is an active member of a number of industry advisory panels
- Was principal consultant heading the penetration testing practice of Zergo in 1997
- Writes regularly for industry press including Computer Weekly and Computing
- Phil worked with UK government departments on the design, implementation and operations of a new connection to the government network and BS7799 compliance
- Former director in the security practices of both CapGemini and Deloitte & Touche (2006-2008)
His publicity on the subject of wireless security have made Phil somewhat of a security celebrity with appearances on Newsnight, Channel 4 News, Sky News, ITV News and BBC’s Inside Out as well as national and industry press. He was responsible for the first published war-driving surveys in London, 2001 and has continued to revisit this each year on behalf of RSA Security.
A regular keynote speaker at National and International conferences, Phil offers a unique insight into the world of information security, hacking and risk management.
Phil was the President of the ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) UK 2006/7 with the following involvements
- Member of BCS ISSG (SIG)
- Member of the BCS Security Forum Strategic Panel
- Member of the management committee for Intellect’s Security & Privacy Group
- Member of the Institute of Risk Management
- Member of the DTI’s ISO17799 User Group Steering Committee
- Member of Eurim (Privacy, e-Crime groups)
- Member of ISACA
- Member of the Jericho Forum
- Regular guest lecturer – Royal Holloway Information Security Degree Cours
His hobbies include keeping fit, football, comedy and martial arts.
Maitland Hyslop, COO, Onyx Group
Maitland Hyslop started his career in the IT sector 15 years ago, and has combined commercial and academic approaches to the subject. He has joined Onyx Group to use this experience to help the Group achieve its goals. Maitland started his career as an officer in the British Army, before moving on to hold a variety of technical, business and public sector posts. Maitland is a graduate, post-graduate and former tutor at Durham University, a graduate of Huddersfield University Business School and Manchester University and a former Research Fellow in Telecommunications Resilience at Northumbria University.
He is a founder member of the Dartmouth College (USA) and Purdue University (USA) Critical Information Infrastructure Team, advising the US government on homeland security. He is also an independent adviser to the European Network Information and Security Agency. Maitland joined Onyx Group from Ross and Cromarty Enterprise in Scotland, where he was chief executive. Before that he worked at the European Telecommunications Resilience and Recovery Association as a director and spent four years as Head of Knowledge, Information and ICT at One North East. He is also affiliated to the Disaster and Development Centre at the University of Northumbria.
Greg Stevens -
Barclays
After more than twenty years in investment banking Greg has extensive experience of both sides of the fence having “poached” as an equity derivatives trader and also been “the gamekeeper” running middle offices, product control teams as well as operational and market risk. Greg will be discussing how respectable institutions like SocGen find their people and technology outwitted so spectacularly. What do SocGen, Barings, Allied Irish, Kidder Peabody, Sumitomo and Daiwa really tell us?
Chris Potter -
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Chris co-authored the UK government (BERR previously DTI) Information Security Breaches Survey, and lectures on the Royal Holloway, University of London. Chris has overall responsibility for the quality of systems auditing work on all UK insurance audits, and has also led several engagements to ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, and advises clients on optimising their internal controls.
David Alexander -
IISP
David has 19 years of IT experience, the last 10 of them involved in information security, and understands ‘life on the other side of the legal fence’. He was one of the first 50 people in the world accredited as a BS7799 (as it was then, ISO2700 series now) Lead Auditor and has worked extensively with it. David has spent the last three years leading a high-profile government project to identify and stop targeted attacks.
Paul Vlissidis -
NCC Group
Paul is an expert on all aspects of IT and Internet security. He heads technical research and new product development for the Ethical Security Testing division of NCC Group and previously held senior IT security roles within the nuclear industry. Paul provides the technical lead for a large team of ethical hackers on projects with national and international corporations, public sector organisations, emergency services and local authorities, testing network security and advising on technical and procedural security and risk management.
Adrian Culley -
Tenon Group
Adrian leads the computer forensic department at Tenon Group, where he provides litigation support to lawyers, accountants and businesses by helping to capture
and analyse data on computers in cases of suspected
fraud, identity theft and other matters, for example by studying email records and patterns of behaviour. He previously led PricewaterhouseCoopers' forensic technology team in the regions, and has worked on forensic technology assignments for companies such
as Vodafone, Royal Bank of Scotland, Sony and Cadbury as well as overseas government departments.
Adrian’s pedigree goes back to his time as a Scotland Yard detective.
Chairman -
Professor Fred Piper
Information Security Group,
University of London
Fred is one of the organisers of the MSc’s in Information Security and Secure Electronic Commerce. He has lectured world-wide on a wide range of topics in information security, both academically and commercially, and has acted as a consultant for a number of financial institutions and major industrial companies in the UK, Europe and US. This consultancy has covered a wide range of subjects including design and analysis of cryptographic algorithms, and work on a number of ATM and EFTPOS systems. In the last few years he has served on a number of committees offering security advice to the UK’s Department of Trade and Industry.
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