Matthew Lloyd Davies

With a background in Chemical Engineering and a career meandering through explosives safety research and accident investigation, Matt is now a Principal inspector and Deputy Professional Lead for Cyber Security and Information Assurance at the Office for Nuclear Regulation in the UK. For 11 years he has regulated nuclear safety and nuclear security across the whole of the UK’s nuclear estate and is currently responsible for regulating cyber security and information assurance across various parts of the nuclear fuel cycle. He is also responsible for developing ONR’s CS&IA regulatory capacity and capability and, as a GIAC certified penetration tester and incident handler, is the lead for technical assurance activities. Matt has planned and run national cyber security exercises that have simulated cyber-attacks against industrial control systems and has run projects to develop new and novel techniques for conducting assurance activities against industrial control systems.