Information Security
Speakers
Rt. Hon Hilary Armstrong MP As a Member of Parliament Hilary has served as an opposition frontbench spokesperson on Education (1988–1992). In 1994 she was appointed the Treasury Affairs Team. In 1995 she was made Opposition spokesperson on the Environment and London, with responsibility for Local Government. After Labour's 1997 general election victory, she was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions with responsibility for Local Government and Housing. As Minister for Regions she advanced the government's regional policy helping areas such as the North East of England. She also had special responsibility for Social Exclusion and oversaw the creation of the government’s Social Exclusion Unit. In 1999, Hilary was made a member of the Privy Council. Following the 2001 General Election Hilary was promoted to the Cabinet and given the cabinet position of Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Government Chief Whip. Only the second woman to hold the position. She was re–appointed as Government Chief Whip following the 2005 General Election. In 2006, Hilary was appointed to the post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Social Exclusion. In June 2007, Hilary announced her decision to step down from the Government and return to the backbenches after 18 years as a Party spokesperson and Government Minister. |
Nick Coleman Nick Coleman is a leading authority on security matters. In 2006 he became the Independent reviewer of Information Assurance for the UK government looking how information held in the public sector is protected. He has now reviewed all major government departments and agencies and a synopsis of his review was published in June 2007 by the Cabinet Office. He was also responsible for setting up the Institute of Information Security Professionals, serving as its first Chief Executive. Before that he led IBM’s security services business across Europe, Middle East and Africa, and before that was in charge of commercial operations for their Business Continuity and Recovery Services division in the UK. He also currently serves on the EU European Network and Information Security Agency as a member of their Permanent Stakeholders Group. |
Mike Payne Mike Payne is the Architecture, Innovation and Information Competency Lead. Mike is an IT professional with more than 20 years experience in many aspects of IT delivery. His experience spans working for suppliers including Cisco, Oracle and Armature, clients such as BP, Goodyear and the Bank of England and in system integration of Capgemini and EDS. |
Ben Grinnell Ben has over 17 years experience in the IT industry, much of it as a management consultant at Andersen and Deloitte where he specialised in IT Strategy, Architecture and delivering technology enabled change. Having built a reputation for helping IT Directors and CIO’s improve the performance and perception of IT he joined Qedis, a management consultancy focused on helping senior IS decision makers. In 2007 he took on the role of IST Director at the UK Border Agency. He is responsible for the IT service to 25,000 staff and for coordinating a large portfolio of projects that includes Immigration Caseworking, eBorders, the National Biometric Identity Service and the merger of Immigration and Customs at the UK Border. |
Mark Dougan Mark Dougan Key Account Manager, responsible for ISO/IEC 27001:2005 Information Security Management, IT and Telecoms Sectors at Lloyds Register Quality Assurance Ltd. Member of the British Computer Society. 20 years, operational, consulting and management system assessment experience within the ICT sector. 8 years experience implementing and assessing information security management systems. |
Dr Mark Ferrar As Director of Infrastructure Architecture for the National Health Service in England, Mark leads a broad team that covers infrastructure projects, infrastructure services, infrastructure standards and unified communications, including IT security responsibilities. Covering strategy and architecture for large national programmes such as NHSmail and the N3 network, the infrastructure directorate also embraces provision of guidance throughout the NHS for the desktop, the Network Operating System and associated services and common applications used throughout the NHS. Mark also plays a key role managing relationships with suppliers such as Microsoft, Novell, Nokia, Cisco, Intel, AMD, Oracle and Vodafone. Mark joined the NHS in September 2004 after 17 years with ICI, the international chemicals and paint company (since acquired by Akzo Nobel in January 2008), where he held a variety of IT management and architecture roles including Global Infrastructure Manager in the Office of the Global CIO. Mark holds BSc, MBA and PhD qualifications, the latter for work on the computer simulation of flow-processed short-fibre reinforced composite materials whilst at Liverpool University. |
Paul Briault As Head of Public Sector UK and Ireland at RSA, the security division of EMC, Paul Briault draws on over twenty one years of experience of the UK public sector, over fifteen of them within it. He is currently responsible for Sales and Business development in the Public Sector for the UK & Ireland, which also includes managing and developing relationships not just within the public sector but also with influencers and leaders in the system integration and vendor community. Prior to joining RSA, Mr. Briault worked at a number of software vendors doing a variety of sales and business development roles and prior to that at the Office of e-Envoy in the Cabinet Office as the Assistant Director of UK e-government security policy responsible for developing central security and authentication policy for use within government departments for their electronic service delivery targets. |
Christine Goodfellow Christine Goodfellow is the ContactPoint, Project Director, who joined on Monday 5 June 2006. Christine came from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), and has a significant career in IT-enabled change, project and programme management. She took over the direction of the DWP Shared Services Change Programme in the summer of 2005, and for the previous 5 years, was Programme Director of Payment Modernisation within DWP. Central to this was the conversion of 15m customers from paper methods of payment to direct electronic transfers into bank accounts. This sensitive venture, required extensive stakeholder management, marketing and communications, backed up by an extensive technical system programme, in order to deliver. The PSA target of 85% customers receiving direct payment was achieved one year early and by closure, over 97% of customers were paid electronically - £1bn of savings will be achieved over the next five years as a result. Christine won the OGC/Cabinet Office Mission Critical Programme of the Year award in November 2005 as a result, and was awarded a CBE in the New Years Honours List. In addition, Christine has managed a number of IT enabled Change Programmes including the National Insurance Recording System 2 (NIRS2), and Working Family Tax Credits. Christine has now created a Programme if IT Enabled Change – Improving Information Sharing and Management (IISaM) in support of the Every Child Matters agenda within DCSF. This programme includes, Information Sharing, ContactPoint, Electronic Common Assessment Framework and the Integrated Childrens Service. |
Tony Collings OBE After 35 years in the Army Tony took early retirement having been CIO of LAND Command to further his interest in electronic commerce in a trusted environment; establishing Electronic Commerce Associates Limited in 1998. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, an early supporter and sponsor of IISP, a subject matter expert in Identity Management and a non executive director of the Enterprise Privacy Group. As a qualified UK government Security Accreditor, CLAS consultant and security professional Tony has many years practical experience of pragmatic security, resilience and fraud prevention issues applied in practice. He also directs teams intimately involved in the design, construction and operation of high availability, energy efficient and secure Data and Control Centres. He regularly speaks at national and international conferences as an expert in achieving Integrity and Trust in large Identity systems in their widest sense. For 3 years Tony headed the security team of the Home Office Identity Card Programme challenging and then establishing many of the core principles for Integrity and Security within the wider subject of practical Identity Management in government. At present he is advising a number of Programmes and initiatives on the challenge of restoring ‘Trust’ around the system and process of managing and assuring Privacy and Data Handling issues holistically. |