Mark Osborne

Mark has had a distinguished career in Information Security as a CISO, Head of Security and pioneer. Key events include:

* Creator of Europe’s largest Cyber-Security/Cyberattack monitoring system

* Formed the KPMG UK Penetration Testing team and Ran the KPMG security practice for many years (1993-2003)

* Held Security leadership positions such as Chief Security Officer, Head of Computer Security and Head of Security Consulting with many international organisations

* Provided Security Advice to Senior Management for most of the FTSE 100

* Researched & published a number of Zero-Day security vulnerabilities (most notably Fatajack)

* Security expert witness in the cash-for-rides legal action between two major airlines.

* Publicised security flaws in WAP (the WAP Gap)

* Designed the world's most popular open-source wireless IDS/IPS (WIDZ), open-source DDOS detector(obeseus) and their widely used detection algorithms.

* Author of a number of books including "How To Cheat at Managing Information Security" which reached the Amazon.com Top-500.

* Designer of the largest Cyber Security System in Europe, the Interoute Internet barometer

* Referenced by Universities, IEEE, IETF, ISACA, GIAC and FIRST - Most importantly referenced in "Wireless Security for Dummies"