Nathan Swain

Nathan is former Senior Security Advisor to the British Government and the former Chief Information Security Officer at ADSS responsible for implementing a strategic roadmap to increase security and alignment to industry practice. Delivering a Security Practice that was synonymous with tier one financial institutions and the first ‘purple team’ in region basing its security tactics on Threat Led approach to security offence and defence. He optimised his departments performance saving $1.5 million whilst maturing the company’s security maturity to defend against threats and also attained both ISO27001 and Cyber Essentials certification for the group. He has honed his cyber security skills over the last twenty years, as well as delivering projects for CERN and NASA whilst at Oxford University. His passion is in understanding trust models in technical ecosystems and leading Red Team assessments that seek to compromise teams, systems and defences and achieve critical offensive security tac