
Richard Beck
Richard Beck is Director of Cyber at QA. He works with customers to build effective and successful learning solutions tailored for business needs, helping to solve business problems. Richard has designed and architected numerous enterprise and nationwide cyber programmes for QA customers. Responsible for the QA cyber portfolio, products, proposition and cyber partner community. He has over 15 years' experience in senior Information Security roles.
Prior to QA, Richard was Head of Information Security for an organisation who underpin 20% of the UK's Critical National Infrastructure. Richard also held Security and Technical Management posts in Defence, Financial Services and HMG. He holds a number of leading cyber professional certifications, including CISSP, CISM, CISA.
Richard sits on a number of industry boards and security advisory panels, and previously chaired the Communication Industry Personnel Security Information Exchange (CPNI). He is the work stream lead for Cyber Skills & Diversity on the techUK Cyber Management Committee, in addition Richard is also supporting a work stream for the UK Cyber Security Council Formation project. Richard is a regular contributor for cyber insights and industry collaboration including speaker engagements.
He is also a STEM Ambassador working to engage and enthuse young people in the area of cyber security. Providing a unique perspective on the world of cyber security to teachers and encourage young people to consider a career in cyber security.
More articles by Richard
Cyber Pulse: Edition 149 | 9 April
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01 April 2021Cyber Pulse: Edition 148 | 1 April
In this week's Cyber Pulse: Australia investigates reported hacks aimed at parliament impacting live broadcast, German's parl…
01 April 2021Cyber Pulse: Edition 147 | 16 March
In this week's Cyber Pulse: Crypto-mining botnet targets unpatched vulnerabilities in cloud servers, continued exploitation o…
16 March 2021Cyber Pulse: Edition 146 | 4 March 2021
Read the latest edition of Cyber Pulse: Ransomware gang hacks Ecuador's largest private bank, Ministry of Finance, Amazon dis…
04 March 2021Cyber Pulse: Edition 145 | 19 February 2021
Read the latest edition of Cyber Pulse: Hackers abuse Google Apps Script to steal credit cards, bypass CSP, tracker pixels in…
19 February 2021Cyber Pulse: Edition 144 | 5 February 2021
Read the latest edition of Cyber Pulse: Microsoft Office 365 attacks sparked from Google Firebase, Otorio releases open-sourc…
05 February 2021Cyber Pulse: Edition 143 | 27 January 2021
Read the latest edition of Cyber Pulse: Active NHS Covid-19 vaccination phishing attack, TikTok bug could have exposed users'…
27 January 2021Cyber Pulse: Edition 142 | 18 January 2021
Read the latest edition of Cyber Pulse: Threat Group Abuses Microsoft & Google Cloud Services; Dutch Energy Supplier Blames C…
18 January 2021CISOs should prioritise the “human firewall” during Covid-19
Richard Beck, QA's Director of Cyber, outlines why home working presents a new set of cyber security risks for CISOs to prior…
11 January 2021