Andrew Beckett is a managing director and EMEA leader for Kroll’s Cyber Risk Practice. Andrew began his career at GCHQ where he held a variety of roles including head of the branch responsible for providing cybersecurity advice to government departments and penetration testing. He also served in the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) – an international civil service organization operating under the auspices of the UN where Andrew was the first head of the Office of Confidentiality and Security and charged with setting up this team. Andrew went on to run his own commercial consultancies before joining Airbus Defense and Space in the UK as the head of Cyber Defense, a role he filled for five years before joining Kroll. Andrew is a visiting professor of Cyber Security at the University of South Wales.