Peter Armstrong

Cyber Risk Insights Limited

Director

Description

Peter Armstrong - Biography Peter Armstrong is an expert in management of cyber risk and cyber security and a self-professed cyber and risk management geek. Peter is the Managing Director of Cyber Risk Insights Limited. Until recently, Peter was the Senior Cyber Subject Matter expert at Munich Re Group and before that led the Willis Towers Watson Cyber risk consulting business where he focused upon the quantification of cyber exposure in the risk portfolios of large organisations. He has sat on the Advisen Cyber Security Conference Advisory Board and is a leading thinker in developing responses to the cyber challenges facing the Insurance sector. Peter's background is in the Defence, Intelligence and Security Sector where for many years he led sensitive cyber security activities in the UK and overseas with a particular focus upon Industrial Control Systems and Operational Technology in Energy (including Nuclear), Utilities, Transportation, Primary Industries and manufacturing (notably Aviation, Automotive and High Tech). During this time he was seconded into industry where subsequently, he ran the Thales Cyber Security Business, the Finmeccanica global Battlespace business and the UNISYS Commercial Industries Group. Prior to the defence and intelligence work, Peter's early career was spent serving as an officer in the Royal Navy deployed during The Cold War in Nuclear Submarines. Peter holds a Masters degree in IT and Management and is a Fellow of The Institute of Directors.