Stuart Jubb

Stuart Jubb spent nine years in the military, which included operational deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, and he worked in strategic planning at a NATO headquarters. In 2011, while planning coalition operations Afghanistan, he had a realisation that the future of conflict wasn’t just kinetic. Intelligence, information control and digital infrastructure, among other vectors, would all become increasingly influential in the new battlespace. Having spent years managing physical risk and crisis in some of the world’s most dangerous environments, he could see the threat landscape was fundamentally shifting. When he left the military, cybersecurity wasn’t only a natural fit. It was the only place where his hard-won expertise in threat assessment and crisis response still mattered in the way he needed it to.

Over the last decade and a half, Stuart has advised boards while working at KPMG, set up and scaled a cybersecurity company to seventy people and international expansion, managed cybersecurity operations, and been CEO and COO of listed companies. Throughout, he kept witnessing the same pattern. Accomplished executives were being asked to make multimillion-pound security decisions without fully understanding what was being asked of them. Nobody was translating the technical risk into a business language they could understand.

Stuart wrote ‘Cybersecurity for Business Leaders’ to bridge this gap, not by turning executives into technical experts but by giving them the business-level fluency they need to govern effectively. He has learned what happens when security fails, both in combat and in business, and has written this book to help fewer people experience that.

He lives in London in the UK, where he continues to challenge an industry that profits from maintaining the knowledge gap between executives and their security teams. He wrote most of this book with a vizsla puppy asleep on his lap, although the ‘pup’ is far too big to do that now.