Rob left the UK government in 2014 after over a decade supporting the development capabilities for British and allied military and cyber operations. Since then, Rob has been a Lecturer in Information Activities at Cranfield University, part of the UK Defence Academy and teaches on the UK MoD’s Cyberspace Operations MSc. From 2020 to 2024, Rob was the Director of the UK Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge leading on the development of the next generation of cybersecurity leaders. He was also Deputy Director of the UK National Cyber Deception Laboratory since its inception in 2019 to 2022, where he encouraged the development of a proactive approach to cyber defence through the use of deception techniques and other novel measures to confuse and disrupt cyber attackers. He remains involved in shaping policy dialogue on issues such as national security, cyber and intelligence through his role as an Associate Programme Director at Wilton Park, part of the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office. In addition to this, Rob also acts as a senior advisor to KPMG’s International Information Integrity Institute (i-4), a strategic cyber security ‘think tank’ and peer-to-peer knowledge exchange for CISOs and cyber security leaders of global corporations and acts as a Cybersecurity Events Host for RANT where he shapes and facilitates invaluable conversations between vendors and CISOs.