Duncan Brown

Duncan Brown is Forcepoint’s Chief Security Strategist in EMEA, and leads the firm’s C-level engagement in the region. He advises customers on business strategy, and how this can be enabled and accelerated through the appropriate application of technology. He acts as adviser and coach to CISOs, CIOs and board executives on risk assessment and mitigation, and aids in the translation of desired business outcomes into technology solutions. Duncan is a self-confessed GDPR junkie and an advocate of pragmatic privacy in the workplace. Duncan was formerly IDC’s vice president, European Security Practice, at IDC EMEA and led the firm’s market-leading security research program in Europe. He established and led IDC’s pioneering coverage of the global impact of the GDPR and NIS Directive on technology companies and their customers.