Ian Harragan

Ian is one of the co-founders of i-confidential. His success has been built upon extensive and diverse experience across global financial services, in a variety of senior manager and consultancy roles.

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Ian has been both functional leader of Information Security and also programme lead for a number of Information Security and IT Security improvement programmes within different leading financial services organisations.

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He has recently completed major initiatives in the identity and user access management, data leakage, and security transformation arenas.

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Ian was previously the Head of Information Security for the Royal Bank of Scotland Group throughout the UK & Ireland, where he had responsibility for security across the group's many brands and substantial supplier base.

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Ian's background is in retail banking and encompasses strong risk management, information security, and operations management. He is a highly effective leader, with an enviable track record in driving change and managing business transformation. Ian has a proven ability to lead and manage teams which deliver measurable business results. His skill set has enabled him to tackle a variety of roles, analyse key business requirements, and deliver high-quality solutions.

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Ian has a strong view that information security management, like all business disciplines, is dependent upon the ability to effectively measure and prioritise activity and investment.

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Ian states:

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"My belief is that effective measurement of risk enables business leaders to focus their scarce resources on driving improvement activity in the most relevant areas. Helping our clients adopt a structured, pragmatic approach is one of i-confidential’s key differentiators.”