Barrie Millett, the former head of security (and health and safety and resilience) at the utility E.ON has set up in consultancy; as part of the Cyber Rescue Alliance.
Their aim; not to duplicate technical security, but to help minimise impact of a cyber-attack on chief execs. They’re running an event in London on Thursday morning, October 13. Speakers include John Unsworth, CEO of the Mayor of London’s Digital Security Centre; and Peter Yapp, on GCHQ’s new cyber security centre.
Barrie, pictured, told Professional Security: “It’s about helping and guiding CEOs who may face a cyber attack, and helping them recover from it. We feel it’s something that’s missing, to be honest; a lot of CEOs still feel, ‘it’s my chief information security officer or my IT director that’s responsible for it’; but in reality during and after a major breach, it’s the CEO that is going to have to take responsibility.”
Vodafone and Maersk are hosting similar Cyber Rescue events in Athens and Copenhagen. The alliance seeks to assist and educate CEOs, to minimise the effects of a cyber incident on customers and company revenue; as the CEOs are the ones who (as in the very public case of Talk Talk) who have to be prepared to represent their company in the event.
About the Cyber Rescue Alliance
To contact the membership group, go through Linkedin; where you can also make contact with Barrie Millett. Before E.ON he was in security at GE; and the Britannia Building Society in Staffordshire, where we interviewed him in 2004.
