Mark Logsdon

Mark has worked in the security industry for 30 years, gaining holistic security experience - physical, personnel and electronic. Having held a number of posts within the UK Government, Mark joined Barclays Bank in 2007 to become Deputy Head of Information Risk Management. Mark’s responsibilities and achievements to date at Barclays include successfully building an extensive information sharing network across the bank, delivering the bank’s award winning IRM awareness raising programme, providing IRM advice to 3rd parties and is the subject matter expert for the banks’ Logical Access Management programme.

Mark takes an active role in a number of professional bodies in particular the Institute of Information Security Professionals, the ISF and sits on the White Hat Ball organising committee, which raised over £90,000 for the charity NSPCC/Child Line. He is also involved in raising money for a smaller charity that looks after people with complex needs.

Mark has a BSc Hons degree in politics, philosophy and economics, and an HNC in electronic engineering. More recently he has become a RHS qualified gardener. He is a keen golfer, though he admits that his golfing ambitions exceed his rather modest ability.

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