Rob Sloan researches and publishes a wide range of papers & articles, and hosts seminars, conferences, and briefings aimed at educating executives on cyber risk. Rob also writes a weekly column in the Wall Street Journal's popular, member-only, WSJ Pro Cybersecurity newsletter and is the author of Dow Jones’s training support tool for SMEs, “Response Readiness Training”. Previously, Rob worked as Response Director for a specialist IT security consultancy in London and built a team focused on detecting, investigating, and protecting against cyber intrusions and responding to incidents, especially state-sponsored attacks. Rob started his cybersecurity career working for the UK government and spent almost a decade working in the areas of defense and foreign affairs.