Dr Bob Oates is a cyber security expert with over a decade of industrial experience, focussing predominantly on safety-critical, operational technologies and critical national infrastructure. He is the technical lead for Cambridge Consultants’ post-quantum cryptography services.
As a technical expert Dr Oates has worked on a number of highly-complex and challenging programmes including the security for the world’s first commercial, remotely operated ship.
As an employee of Rolls-Royce Dr Oates won the Sir Henry Royce award twice, once as part of the team behind remotely operated ships, and once as part of the team behind a cryptographic framework for securing confidential data on remote compute resource for computational fluid dynamics. During his time at the National Grid he predominantly focussed on the impact of OT/IT convergence on threat modelling by demonstrating how controls in one domain could prevent propagation of threats into adjacent domains.