Dr. Cyril Onwubiko

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Research Series Limited, London, UK.

Short Bio

Dr. Cyril Onwubiko is a Senior Member of IEEE, 2024 Vice President of the Professional and Educational Activities Board (PEAB), Board of Governor (BoG) member, Distinguished Speaker (DVP), and Distinguished Contributor of the IEEE Computer Society. He is also the past Secretary of the IEEE United Kingdom and Ireland Section and the past Founding Chair of the IEEE United Kingdom and Ireland Blockchain Group. As an active IEEE member for over 15 years, he has served in several other roles: Executive Member of the IEEE UK and Ireland Computer Society Chapter, Member of the European Public Policy Committee (EPPC) Working Group on ICT (responsible to the IEEE Board of Directors for the coordination of public policy activities), and Reviewer for the IEEE Security & Privacy, IEEE Intelligence & Security Informatics (ISI), Young Professionals, Women in Engineering, and Guest Editor for IEEE HKN (The BRIDGE). He is also a Trustee, Board Member, and Volunteer for other charity organizations.
Cyril has 20 years of industry experience in Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain. Currently, he is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Research Series Limited, London, UK. Prior to Research Series Limited, he was the Senior Director of Enterprise Security Architecture at Pearson Plc, the world’s learning company, where he directed strategy, architecture, and cybersecurity. He has worked in the Financial Services, Telecommunications, Health, Government, and Public Services sectors.
Cyril is a graduate of the University of Oxford, Said Business School, Organisational Leadership program. He holds a PhD in Computer Network Security from Kingston University, London, UK; an MSc in Internet Engineering; and a BSc, first-class honors, in Computer Science & Mathematics. He has authored and edited several books (8) and published over 40 peer-reviewed articles in leading and prestigious academic journals and conferences. He is the Editor of the Cyber Science series, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Cyber Situational Awareness (IJCSA), and Founder of the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research, Innovation and Collaboration (C-MRiC), a non-profit and non-governmental organization dedicated to the advancement of outstanding research and innovation through collaboration (https://www.c-mric.com). For more information, please visit https://www.c-mric.com/cyril.

Talk Abstract:

Cybersecurity is crucial for individuals, businesses, and governments. It enables individuals to protect their data and privacy, businesses to safeguard valuable services, customer data, and intellectual property, and governments to secure national infrastructures and citizen information. Despite best efforts, cyber incidents are inevitable. Therefore, it is essential to develop plans, playbooks, and capabilities to
recover from such events and maintain essential services. CROF is designed to provide a practical and operational framework to guide organizations in achieving recovery and resilience in the face of cyberattacks.