Show Notes
Alan is a highly confident, effective and adaptable leader, manager & team player, with some 30 years experience in all facets of security, particularly cyber and enterprise security risk management, with a focus on ‘value-at-risk’. Currently, Alan is the Director of Advisory Services for Decipher Cyber, where he works with founder Tinesh Chhaya to grow their business and deliver quality outcomes at a reasonable cost based on the value of change required in a transparent manner.
During his career as a senior RAF Police officer, he has accrued extensive operational exposure in the UK & overseas, in both multi-national & multi-agency environments, against the backdrop of a broad threat spectrum & across all 3 of the so-called physical, personnel & information security pillars.
Since leaving the RAF in 2006, he has added management consulting plus business development, delivery & pre-sales experience in both Public & Private sectors in the role of a Trusted Advisor & SME. After spells at CSC & T-Systems as UK Chief Security Officer and being responsible for end-end security governance, operations and risk, he joined Babcock International Group as their first CISO in 2013. He led the delivery of significant improvements in the Group’s cyber security capabilities to the benefit of the wider business & its customers. After a year as an Independent, he later joined IBM Security in 2015 as an Associate Partner leading activities in the UK’s FinSvces Sector, where he also led the delivery of a £multi-million security workstream as part of a £1.2 billion contract with a Tier 1 Bank. He returned to freelancing in 2018, working through Cybercorre & then joining a start-up, Guardian Cyber Services, in 2019, before landing an all-too-brief role at 2-Sec Consulting. He has been on contract to Hitachi Europe’s Security Business Group since October 2019 and has also been CISO-in-Residence at CyLon Labs since March of even year, supporting 2 Cohorts of startup/scale ups and supporting a CyLon Spark workshop in Oman in 2020.
