The newly launched Cyber Monitoring Centre has announced the appointment of Ciaran Martin at technical committee chair.

Martin (pictured), who previously set up and led the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, is a leading advisor to a number of governments on cyber security.

He is joined by other UK cyber experts including: Sadie Creese, Professor of Cyber Security at the University of Oxford and previously of QinetiQ and the Ministry of Defence; Dan Jeffery managing director at Daintta and previously chief information security officer for NHS Blood and Transplant and lead for the NHS’s National Cyber Programme; Jamie MacColl, research fellow in cyber security at the Royal United Services Institute; and Julian Williams, head of the department of finance at Durham University and formerly director of the Durham University Institute of Hazard Risk and Resilience.

“I am excited to be involved in the Cyber Monitoring Centre. It addresses a key challenge in UK cyber risk response, namely trying to quantify the impact of systemic cyber events as they are occurring,” Martin said. “This whole area of measuring the severity of incidents has proved a really tricky one but if we can crack it we can hugely improve the way we deal with cyber security.”

CEO of the CMC, William Mayes, added: “Entirely independent of any one company, organisation or sector and made of individuals with extensive and different experiences, our Technical Committee is a vital component to ensure a trusted event categorisation. I am delighted that we have attracted such high calibre individuals to this innovative and valuable initiative and am confident that our committee will become viewed as a reliable, expert assessor of systemic cyber events.”

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