Welcome, Introductions and Scene Setting

Jerry Adley has devoted over 40 years delivering IT solutions to underwriting and broking organisations in the London Insurance Market. During this time, Jerry has had particular interest in user engagement and the delivery of measurable business benefits. While most of the time has been spent with service providers in the market, he also worked within the Lloyd's Corporation for 12 years. He works for Verisk Specialty Business Solutions.  He is also Chairman of the market's popular Insurance Technology Forums (ITF) 'IT Matters' Forum and continues to be an enthusiastic supporter of market initiatives.

'Threat Actors Know the Value of Your Business Reputation - Are You Safeguarding Your Sensitive Data?'

In the shift from pure network disruption, to pure data extortion tactics, organisations must start looking at improving their data management. Dark web marketplaces are trading large amounts of data and selling them at a profit, however, most businesses remain ignorant of the sensitivity of their data. And as nation-state cyber capabilities are currently focussing on the disruption of critical infrastructure, post-conflict, we are likely to see those capabilities reflected in attacks against organisations industry-wide.

Neil Hare-Brown has worked for over 30 years in the field of Information Security and formed the first digital forensics company in the UK in 1996, with the former head of the first Computer Crime Unit, Met. Police. Neil wrote ‘Information Security Incident Management: A Methodology’ in 2007, defining the best practices for cyber incident management.

After providing Digital Forensics to the Met Police and other constabularies for many years, Neil went on to form STORM Guidance in 2014. Pioneering in the field of digital investigations and cyber risk management, STORM’s services can be accessed across the UK, U.S., and Africa, helping customers better manage cyber risk and respond effectively to cyber incidents.

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'DORA is the latest set of ICT cyber security risk management best practice principles for the Finance and Insurance verticals'

In this presentation Fortinet will outline how they are best placed to help companies implement and adhere to DORA from a network and application security perspective.

Paulo is a 30+ year IT veteran having worked in multiple disciplines. He has been an end user, worked for service integrators and for a number of the largest network/security vendors with Fortinet being the most current. He has covered roles from consulting engineer to engineering director having originally joined Fortinet as the Systems Engineering Director for Fortinet UK&I before deciding that his true passion lay in solving problems and moving into his current role as a solutions architect in the business and development team supporting the UK&I region.

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'Your most valuable data shouldn't be your most vulnerable'

The why & how of building a data-first security program.

Brad has 10 years’ experience in the fields of Information Security & Data Classification working with enterprise organisations across all verticals. Brad’s role as Senior Systems Engineer at Varonis sees him looking after several insurance customers to ensure that they can successfully secure and manage their unstructured data. In addition, Brad performs data risk assessments, using the Varonis platform, to demonstrate issues within prospective customer’s environments and show how the software can be utilised to mitigate these risks moving forwards.

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