Dr. Paul Dorey

Director, CSO Confidential
Chairman, Institute of Information Security Professionals
Former CISO BP PLC

Paul Dorey has over 20 years management experience in information security and established one of the first dedicated operational risk management functions in Europe. At BP he built and managed Information security, BCP, Privacy and Information Management Standards & Services globally across the corporation, including the digital security of process control systems. Prior to BP, he set up and ran global strategy, security and risk management functions at Morgan Grenfell and Barclays Bank.

Paul has consulted to numerous governments, was a founder of the Jericho Forum, is the Chairman of the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP) and currently sits on the Permanent Stakeholders Group of the European Network Information Security Agency (ENISA).
Recently, together with other Chief Security Officers, he established the security consultancy ‘think tank’ CSO Confidential which is focused on researching and developing cost effective security strategies. As a Director of Security Faculty he is also working in the security industry to build programmes that support security team performance improvement and personal development. He can be contacted at paul.dorey@csoconfidential.com