Matthew has been Technical Director of Idrach since its founding, having previously worked for the UK Government, Royal Bank of Scotland Group and several testing and security consultancies. Matthew is perhaps recently best known for his contributions to incident management and counter-fraud strategies but also has considerable experience in policy-based security, security architectures, security testing and ISO27001.  Additionally, he has provided product development support to various security vendors, including Cronto and Qualys Inc.

Historically, he was one of the first people to qualify as a penetration test team leader under the GCHQ “CHECK” scheme and was also one of the limited number of security professionals qualified as a BS7799 Auditor under the c:cure scheme.

A regular writer in trade magazines and speaker at regional, national and international events, Matthew is a Chartered and European Registered Engineer, a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Member of the Institute of Engineering & Technology.  He is an associate member of the Institute for Information Security Professionals, also acting as a Full Membership Interviewer and Advisor; a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and a Certified Fraud Examiner.