Raj Samani is Chief Technical Officer for Intel Security in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He is Special Advisor for the European CyberCrime Centre. He was previously the Chief Information Security Officer for a large public-sector organization in the United Kingdom. Samani volunteers as the Cloud Security Alliance EMEA Strategy Advisor and is on the advisory councils for Infosecurity Europe and Infosecurity Magazine. He was previously the Vice President for Communications in the ISSA UK Chapter, having presided over the award for chapter communications program for the years 2008 and 2009. Samani has published numerous security papers and has appeared on television (ITV and More4). Samani is the Author of Applied Cyber Security and the Smart Grid.