Mike Gillespie

Mike is an experienced, senior information security and data protection practitioner of many years’ standing. A Chartered Institute of Information Security Fellow, he is well versed in the threat to organisational information assets. Having been a member of the CSCIS Global Cyber Security Select Committee for some time, he is now the Senior Vice President Europe and provides direction and leadership to industry focusing on the intrinsic risks and threats emanating from cyberspace. He assists the organisation in continuing to promote thought leadership and awareness to a global audience on the current threats to organisational information assets emanating from cyberspace.

Mike has served as a cyber spokesperson for the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management (IIRSM) and also as the Cyber Security lead adviser for the UK Government’s Biometric and Surveillance Camera Commissioner. Mike is a retired Director of the Security Institute where he held the portfolio for Cyber Strategy & Research for several years. As a subject matter expert Mike is called upon regularly to speak at events and contribute editorial, including for the BBC and The Sunday Times as well as regular cyber and physical security and technology industry media. He is also part of the editorial board for Professional Security Magazine, a regular contributor to Computer Weekly, and a regular speaker at key events such as Security & Policing, IFSEC, SCTX and International Security Expo.