February's LNETM will focus on IT Security in the enterprise, with several top quality demo presenters and a panel discussion on key trends in IT Security.

The panel discussion will include the following speakers:

• Dexter Casey (Group CISO of Centrica PLC)
• Poppy Dowell (Program Manager of Wayra GCHQ) - moderator
• Paul Knott (Security Strategist, Northern Region, Symantec Corporation)
• Matt Lorentzen (Senior Security Consultant at Trustwave Spider Labs)
• Roy Tuvey (Co-Founder & President of Wandera)

The demo presenters will include:

• iProov simply and securely authenticates online users, via its Azure-based Saas service. iProov can authenticate users for access purposes, and can also provide remote onboarding by authenticating users against their identity documents for secure remote KYC. iProov uses face verification, which is effortless on any device (including PCs, IOS and Android devices). iProov's unique capability is to reliably detect attack by copies of users' faces, and by replayed recordings of prior sessions.
• PostQuantum's patented authentication process relies on cryptographic binding, with applications that extend beyond authorisation and verification into creating reliable digital signatures and non-repudiation capabilities. Most significantly, they have created quantum-secure encryption, to give users peace of mind over your data’s security, today and tomorrow.
• ZeroFOX protects modern organizations across social, mobile, web and collaboration platforms from targeted phishing attacks, credential compromise, data exfiltration, brand hijacking, executive and location threats by using targeted data collection and artificial intelligence-based analysis

The academic speaker will be Dr Vasilios Mavroudis, Doctoral Researcher in the Information Security Group at University College London, who will speak about his research into high assurance cryptographic hardware from untrusted components.

Tickets are £7.50, with an opportunity to purchase early bird discount tickets for £5.00 up until two weeks before the event.

Dexter Casey (Group CISO of Centrica)

Dexter Casey is the Group CISO of Centrica PLC, the UK's largest energy & gas company. Dexter has 17 years experience in the IT Security space, with senior roles at a range of top tier organisations including Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, HSBC, Willis Towers Watson, Royal Mail Group and The Cooperative Group.

Poppy Dowell (Program Manager of Wayra GCHQ)

Poppy started her career in Business Change for a management consultancy firm; with a range of assignments from doing a governance review for a uranium enrichment plant to advising on the universal credit scheme to working internally on a UK-wide restructure programme.

Recently, she has been working within innovation in arguably one of the most challenging government environments to create change and cause positive disruption, with the Wayra team as site manager of the GCHQ Cyber Accelerator.

Paul Knott (Security Strategist, Northern Region, Symantec Corporation)

Paul Knott is a security strategist for Symantec across Northern Europe within the CTO team. In this role, Paul serves as a trusted advisor to the leaders of Symantec’s clients, helping them understand the cyber threat landscape, providing expert industry insight and enabling them to bolster their enterprise security strategy.

Prior to joining Symantec, Paul served as a Consultant and Advisory Security Principal for DXC Technology, and as a Senior Security & Network Analyst for QinetiQ.

Matt Lorentzen (Senior Security Consultant at Trustwave Spider Labs)

Matt has 20 years IT industry experience working within government, military, finance, education and commercial sectors. He is a senior security consultant and penetration tester at SpiderLabs with a focus on red team engagements. Before joining SpiderLabs, he worked with Hewlett Packard Enterprise as a CHECK Team Leader delivering penetration testing services to a global client list. Prior to HPE, Matt ran his own IT consultancy company for 7 years.

Vasilias Mavroudis (Doctoral Researcher at University College London)

Vasilios is a Doctoral Researcher in the Information Security Group at University College London, where he studies the security and privacy aspects of digital ecosystems with a focus on emerging technologies and previously unknown attack vectors. He works under the supervision of Professor George Danezis and Prof. Emiliano De Cristofaro.

In the past, he developed auditing tools for the Public Key Infrastructure of Deutsche Bank and participated in an international consortium studying large-scale security threats in telecommunication networks. He has also cooperated with the Computer Security Group of University of California, Santa Barbara in several projects, including a detection system for evasive web-malware.

He holds an M.Sc. in Information Security from UCL, and a B.Sc in Computer Science from University of Macedonia, Greece.

Roy Tuvey (Co-Founder and President of Wandera)

Roy Tuvey Co-Founded Wandera in 2012 and serves as its President and Director. He is responsible for Wandera’s global go-to-market strategy and execution. Roy Co-Founded ScanSafe Limited in 1999 and served as its President & Director since 1999.

He has significant experience in business and finance during a career in global private equity and investment banking. He originated, executed and managed investments while at Compass Partners, a $1 billion European private equity fund, including the leveraged buy-out of Electrolux Zanussi Vending. He was part of the investment banking team at Merrill Lynch.

He holds BSc in Economics from Bristol University.