Alex Tarter

Dr Alex Tarter is Chief Cyber Consultant & CTO at Thales. He is a senior manager with extensive experience in the development and implementation of strategic plans and technology roadmaps that meet both long-term aims and tactical objectives. He is also a leading subject matter expert on the cyber-physical protection of critical infrastructure and industrial automation systems, with a strong background in cyber security, encryption & key management, risk assessment, and industrial automation. He ensures cyber security is a risk driven discipline instead of a technology driven one. He helps customers achieve the right degree of security for their mission, and that fits with their operational priorities and environment. He is a specialist in making complex technical concepts understandable and relevant to both internal and external stakeholders, to enable informed decision-making and business planning. He likes working in fast-paced rapidly changing technical fields, to generate solutions that are both effective and applicable to the environments they will be used in.