Andrew has over 20 years experience as a consultant and researcher to government, industry, and academia, holding senior roles across security technology policy and research fields. In the UK, these include leading HM Government’s Cybercrime Task Force, coordination of the UK Defence and Security technology requirements across Whitehall, and recently as lead author of the British Standard in Digital Identification and Strong Customer Authentication (PAS4992019). Internationally he has been UK subject matter expert on EU Cybercrime & terrorism research programme, a member of the Federal Reserve’s Secure Payments Task Force, UK member of ISO TC321 in E-Commerce Transaction Assurance, and is an advisor to myriad international tech providers. In addition to his first degree he holds masters in Information Security (MSc, Royal Holloway), and Defence & Security Analysis (MA, Lancaster University).