Brian Allen is a former Chief Security Officer with Time Warner Cable and then an advisor to company boards and C-suites on their cybersecurity obligations. He now collaborates across the financial sector on security policy and advocacy work. He is also a university lecturer and author of security books that bridge the divide between physical and cybersecurity. His book on 'Enterprise Security Risk Management' (with Rachelle Loyear) is viewed as the definitive reference point on the subject. His latest publication, 'Building a Cyber Risk Management Programme' (with Brandon Bapst), maps out a framework built on authoritative sources. It provides four core components of a program and a list of considerations for building a programmatic security risk management program.

Dr Rich Diston is a career security practitioner, with a MSc with distinction and a professional doctorate. He has held too many professional accreditations to count, and currently holds strong views about security practice and the industry.

He works as a trainer/consultant helping develop security professionals, but if you want him to help you he will wish to vet you first, and you will have to go and find him, he doesn’t advertise.  He admits he is an industry hate figure, and routinely gets hate mail. He has a low tolerance of 'bullsh*t' and bad ethics. It is worth noting that he is autistic and a practicing Stoic.

Professor Gloria Laycock is one of the world’s leading scholars on crime prevention. A trained psychologist who has worked extensively in the prison service, Government policy and research and then in academia as a Professor of Crime Science at the Jill Dando Institute. Outspoken, direct and popular, with a keen commitment to ensuring that the findings of academic research are used to influence practice, and to improve the prevention of crime.