Alan is a highly confident, effective, and adaptable leader with 35+ years’ experience in all facets of security particularly cyber and enterprise security risk management, focusing on 'value-at-risk'.
He has extensive operational exposure in the UK & overseas in both multi-national & multi-agency environments against the backdrop of a broad threat spectrum and across all 3 of the so-called physical, personnel & information security pillars. His ‘hard' experience is complemented by softer skills & broad general management experience including corporate governance, strategic planning, programme management, business continuity, cyber resilience and crisis/disaster/incident response activities.
Alan possesses an unusual portfolio of skills & experience across the breadth of security & broader business risk management issues. He champions better alignment of security to the needs of business as an enabling strategy, with emphasis on the benefits & value-add that result from a converged security approach. He advocates improved business resilience as the desired outcome that we should strive to deliver from our full-spectrum security activities.