Lee Whatford is a seasoned leader in information security and risk management. With over 25 year’s experience in a variety of roles across the industry, from start-up to large vendors, consultancies and managed service providers, Lee is now CISO for a leading global brand. He is also a Founding Partner of the South East Cyber Resilience Centre helping small businesses, a strategic advisor to EC-Council and a member of Evanta’s CISO Community Governing Body. Lee enjoys sharing his knowledge and experience being a regular speaker at a variety of industry events and retains a strong interest in the start-up community acting as a strategic advisor to several start up and growth phase companies. Outside of his infosec commitments Lee enjoys the great outdoors, photography and (when allowed) travelling.
Cross-team collaboration to promote privacy in the workplace is essential to mitigate organisations’ risk. This panel will look at the key problems organisations have with siloed teams and how they are addressing these challenges, enabling team alliance for privacy and the importance of ongoing communication between the legal department and a company’s chief privacy and security officers.
