Allan is the Delivery CISO at NTT Data Services, formerly CISO at Mitel, Forcepoint and at Polycom. In his CISO roles Alford has managed enterprise security as well as compliance with various frameworks such as GDPR, NIST SP800-171 and ISO 27001.

With more than 30 years of IT and Engineering security experience, Allan has a strong product and cloud security background, having served at Pearson as Product Information Security Officer (PISO), supervising the security of a massive-scale company-wide cloud transformation program, and Polycom where he built and managed the product security program, integrating it fully into the business.

Previously CISO at The Economist and Head of Business Continuity, Information Risk & Business Risk at Barclaycard, Vicki is considered an industry expert on Cyber Security. Vicki was awarded Cyber Security Woman of the Year, 2015 and Security Serious Unsung Hero Awards, Marathon (Wo)man, 2016.

She is often told her most valuable skill in this area is her ability to convey important information to senior business leaders in clear, understandable English, without resorting to industry jargon and meaningless acronyms. She passionately believes that security, privacy and continuity are business issues not IT issues and therefore need to be explained in terms business leaders understand.

I am a highly motivated information security leader, experienced in strategy, planning, managing staff, running security reviews, designing policy, and handling security incidents.

My experience includes the greenfield development of Information Security Management Systems (based on ISO/IEC 27001), the initiation and project management of information security risk assessments, and the design and implementation of many awareness initiatives. I have competence in both the 'soft' and the 'hard' sides of IT and information security, including experience in network and system administration, policy and strategy development in the defence and education industries. I have the CISSP, CISM qualifications and am an Associate Member of the Institute of Information Security Professionals. I am also the editor for ISO/IEC 27014 (information security governance). Finally, I have been a QSA, qualified to assess companies against the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

My interests lie in the security of all types of systems, and the human aspects of system vulnerability. I'm the sort of person who will always have a foot in both the technical and strategy camps. I enjoy helping people to find solutions to thorny problems, and strongly believe that information security is fundamental to reliable business operations, not a 'nice to have'.

Nick has more than 30 years of tech consulting and implementing experience. He leads a team of highly skilled consultants delivering technology and digital transformation projects that result in strategic improvements for clients across the public and private sector.  He believes that successful outcomes should result in the best and most secure user experience, better service delivery and transfer of knowledge to the client IT teams he works with.