Dr. Bob Oates
Dr Bob Oates is an Associate Director with Cambridge Consultants and a cyber security expert with over a decade of industrial experience.
He focusses predominantly on safety-critical, operational technologies and critical national infrastructure.
He has worked on a range of complex projects covering security for novel technology, AI assurance arguments, and post-quantum security.
As an employee of Rolls-Royce Dr Oates won the Sir Henry Royce award twice, once for leading the cybersecurity efforts for remotely operated ships, and once as part of the team behind a cryptographic framework for securing confidential data on remote compute resource for computational fluid dynamics. During his time at National Grid he predominantly focused on the impact of OT/IT convergence on threat modelling by demonstrating how controls in one domain could prevent propagation of threats into adjacent domains.