techUK National Security Committee Strategic Priorities 2023
techUK's National Security Committee has identified 4 strategic priorities that along with wider membership would assist on improving the security posture of the UK. These priorities are as follows:
Improved UK sovereign skilled workforce within national security
- production, attraction, and retention of a digitally skilled, sovereign, diverse workforce
- assisting the Authority(s) to transform the vetting process in the UK; working to create a more digital, user-friendly, and more efficient system
Threat Intelligence
- cyber threat intelligence and foreign threat intelligence, along with the broader long-term threat landscape within the UK. How to identify and mitigate risk and threat
Trusted partnership between HMG and technology suppliers to help shape policy that influences national security
- improve HMG’s process of acting on industry policy recommendations
- drafting strategies in partnership with industry
- rewarding high standards in security through procurement
Supply-chain risk·
- upskilling smaller organisations within techUK membership for greater risk awareness
- act as a conduit to help and inspire techUK members to think about how they pose risk
- ensuring understanding on how organisational activities fit into supply-chain risks.
| Committee Member | Committee Representative | Company Role |
|---|---|---|
| Vodafone | Stephen Knibbs (Chair) | UK Head of Security and CISO, heading Secure CNI |
| Leidos UK | Alan Potter (Vice-Chair) | VP & MD National Security & Defence Division |
| Accenture | Madeline H. Lewis | Managing Director and UK Armed Forces Network Sponsor |
| Amazon Web Services | Mike Nayler | Senior Manager |
| Arqit | Daniel Shiu | Chief Cryptographer |
| Baker & McKenzie LLP | Ross Evans | Senior Associate |
| BT Group | Stuart Lyle | Senior Manager of Security Liaison & Industry Collaboration |
| Capgemini | Richard Major | Client Director and Delivery Manager | Public Sector |
| Capita plc | Jim Fox | Business Consultant Manager |
| CDS Defence & Security | Martin Nash | Head of Cyber Security and Information Assurance (CS&IA) Services |
| CGI | Patrick Hutchings | UK & Australia Sector Lead for Secure Innovation & Advisory |
| Clue Software | Matt Horne | Head of Policing & Government |
| CyberHive Ltd | Sarah Blundell | Chief Operating Officer |
| Electralink | Kulwinder Johal | Head of Information Security |
| Fujitsu | Paul Dickens | Public Sector UKI CISO, Enterprise Cyber Security |
| IBM | Glen Martin | Technology Managing Director |
| iProov | Campbell Cowie | Head of Policy, Standards & Regulation |
| QinetiQ | Simon Wilcox | Data Intelligence, Business Development Lead |
| SC Strategy | Dan Spacie | Senior Advisor - Defence and National Security |
| Sopra Steria | Neil Salter | Director National Security |
If you would like to get involved in the techUK National Security Programme or hear more about any of the strategic priorities, please get in contact with Raya Tsolova ([email protected]).
