Cyber Security Risk | What a Director Should Know

Cyber Security. Risk. Compliance. 

Learn real life practical insights at our upcoming webinar on Cyber Security Risk. Join Paul Gillen, Chief Security Officer and Country Manager at Barclays Bank Ireland, who will address the cyber security threat landscape, as well as how to assess and build a framework for dealing with the risk.

Paul will reflect on the importance of contingency plans, legislations (such as NIS2), as well as the insider threat landscape. Paul is a Board Director of Cyber Defence Alliance, a not for profit cyber threat intelligence organisation. 

This event is exclusive to IoD Ireland members. This event is part of the IoD Briefing Series: Designed for Directors, sponsored by Accenture.

Paul Gillen is the Managing Director and Country Lead for Barclays Bank in Ireland as well as being the Chief Security officer for the Bank in Europe and a Non-Exec Director of two of the bank’s subsidiaries.  Paul is also the Global head of Cyber, Fraud and Internal Security Transformation teams at Barclays, where he led Cyber Security transformation at what is one of the world’s largest and systemically important banks. 

Paul joined Barclays as a Managing Director in London in 2015 from the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) in the Hague.   Paul was EC3’s founding Head of Cybercrime Operations and Intelligence from 2012 to 2015.  While in this post Paul coordinated joint USA and EU Police operations against the cyber botnet infrastructure of international organised cybercriminal gangs, darkweb paedophile networks and international internet fraudsters. 

Paul has been working in Cyber and Fraud since 1996 and was the founder of what is now the Garda Cybercrime Bureau.   As a graduate of UCD, he was also co-founder of the UCD Centre for Cyber Security and Cybercrime Investigation. Paul was founding chairperson of Europol’s (European Union Police Intelligence Agency) European Cybercrime Training and Education Group (ECTEG) and he was also founder and Co-Chair of the European Union Cybercrime Task Force (EUCTF), a group made up of all the Heads of Federal Police Cybercrime Units across the EU. 

Paul is one of only 400 recipients of the Scott medal for valour by An Garda Siochana for his part in the rescue of kidnapped Supermarket executive Don Tidey in 1983. Paul has also been awarded a Fellowship of the Irish Computer Society in 2021 for a lifetime contribution to Cyber Security. As part of his role in leading cyber security in the UK’s largest financial institutions, Paul was a founding Director and current Board member of the Cyber Defence Alliance in London, a Cyber Defence company made up of financial institutions in the UK, Ireland and the European Union.  

Paul is also on the Executive Committee of the UK Finance FSCCC (Financial Services Cyber Collaboration Centre) in London.  

Is this eligible for CPD? 

• Dimension Covered: Technical Knowledge and Skills
• Eligible Hours: 1 hour of Chartered Director CPD

This session may be eligible for other professional body CPD. Check with your relevant professional body. 

How do I attend? 

To reserve your space, click the ‘Book Now’ button. 

Once registered, we’ll send an email to confirm your booking with the option to add the event to your calendar.  We’ll also send a reminder with the link to access the session the day before the event. 

The event will take place on Zoom. Download it on Zoom if you don’t have it already. Please ensure you have a working microphone and camera to take part in our webinar. 

Want to connect with fellow members?  

Before the webinar, you will receive a list of the names and companies of all the attendees. 

Take the opportunity to connect. 

•    Reach out via the IoD Members’ LinkedIn Group.
•    Email the Events team we will make this happen on your behalf. 

For GDPR reasons, we cannot provide contact details on the attendee list. 

Questions? 
Get in touch with Anna Hannigan, Events Manager, IoD Ireland. 
 

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