Prof Elliott Atkins shares practical lessons from decades of incident response and cyber exercises. Joint IET and BCS evening lecture.
Speaker
Professor Elliott Atkins
Synopsis
Elliott has decades of experience at the sharp end of incident response operations, as well as in building and delivering realistic cyber exercises. He recently compared notes with Kenneth van Wyk, a colleague in the United States with similar levels of real-world experience.
About the speaker
Elliott Atkins is the founder of Exercise3, an NCSC assured provider of cyber incident exercising which uses realistic scenarios to help organisations test and improve their cyber incident preparedness. Prior to founding Exercise3, he held a series of senior roles, including Head of the UK Government’s Computer Emergency Response Team (GovCertUK), Head of Cyber Intelligence at QinetiQ and Head of Incident Response at Nominet, the UK top-level domain registry. A Fellow of the British Computer Society, Elliott was appointed by Her Majesty the Queen as the first Chief Information Security Officer to the Royal Household in 2021.
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