Sarah Dougan is the Managing Director of the E-Security Exchange and has worked as a business consultant and trainer for over 15 years. She was one of the first academics in the UK to create an online MBA that catered for over 1500 students.

 

David Watson is a computer professional with over twenty years experience of advising organisations on risk management through effective information security, disaster recovery and business continuity planning. He is a senior security adviser to the UK Government Communications Headquarters and holds the prestigious qualification as a Principal Lead Auditor with the International Council Register of Auditors.

 

Professor Bill Buchanan leads the Centre for Distributed Computing and Security (DCS) at Napier University in Scotland.

 

Having spent six years in the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, Mark moved into the commercial security industry where he specialised in managing the security requirements for high risk projects in hostile environments. He spent 8 years with Coopers & Lybrand as London Security Manager responsible for working with clients to design security policies that covered all business processes. He also oversaw the anti-terrorist programme during the bombing campaign in the UK during the early 1990s.

As an Expert Witness in software litigation, computer forensics and computer criminal prosecutions, Stephen has been involved in a wide range of cases including what is thought to be the largest civil action over a software development contract to come to trial in the English High Court. This took place in 2001 when he was called as an expert witness in Airtours plc v Electronic Data Systems Limited, involving a £200m claim and £50m counterclaim.