About the Speaker
Craig Rice | Chief Executive Officer
Talk
The NATO of Banks Delivering Target Intelligence
The not for profit Cyber Defence Alliance (CDA) member organisation has evolved the concept of information sharing to create a mutual defence ecosystem of financial institutions bound by legal and data sharing agreements with a NATO ‘Article V’ ethos. Operating since 2011, CDA has been credited, by law enforcement in the EU, UK, Canada, the US and Australia with providing target intelligence that has led to 457 arrests. CEO, Craig Rice, will explain how and why the Alliance came into being and how it intends to maximise the action and impact to support other critical sectors such as the telecom sector.
Craig Rice is a career information security and intelligence professional with experience spanning all intelligence and security disciplines in both the public and private sectors.
Within UK financial services he has held senior cyber security and resilience leadership roles in critical national infrastructure and systematically important financial institutions.
His advisory work has included contributions to the Bank of England cyber policy, sector capability development and exercising, CPMI-IOSCO cyber policy, DSIT cyber guidance and UK Finance cyber policy and guidance. Within academia he has supported the Centre of Doctoral Training at Royal Holloway University London (CDT at RHUL) and the Research Institute for SocioTechnical Cyber Security (RISCS).
He was appointed CEO of the Cyber Defence Alliance (CDA) in September 2023.
About Cyber Defence Alliance (CDA)
The CDA is a shared operational capability that supports a close alliance of financial institutions deliver individual and collective cyber defence, cyber security, cyber resilience and digital fraud. The Alliance works with governments, law enforcement, intelligence and security agencies and telecommunications operators to advance a safer digital future.
Through sharing resources, expertise and intelligence, the CDA works to reduce threats and the impact of cyber attacks, counter cyber threat actors and networks, strengthen cyber security and resilience, and deliver timely and accurate insights into new and emerging threats, with a strong focus on protecting the public.
Established in the UK in 2015 as a not for profit organisation by a coalition of four international banks with law enforcement support, the CDA has grown steadily and is entirely member owned and driven, with a team of permanent staff and member secondees headquartered in Canary Wharf, London.
Learn more at: cyberdefencealliance.org or contact us via contact@cyberdefencealliance.org.