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When Unreality Hits - Russia’s Use of Cyber Operations in Information Confrontation and Sabotage Efforts
04. Rob Black - Director of Global Institute for Cyber Deception

Rob Black

Director of Global Institute for Cyber Deception

Rob is the Director of the UK Cyber Leaders Challenge nurturing new cyber talent, a Professor at the University of Manchester, senior advisor to KPMG’s International Information Integrity Institute and an Associate Programme Director at Wilton Park (UK FCDO), events host for RANT and the Director of the Global Institute for Cyber Deception.

Rob was also the Deputy Director of the UK National Cyber Deception Laboratory as well as a Lecturer in Information Activities at the UK Defence Academy, teaching on the classified Cyber Masters Programme. Prior to that he spent over a decade working for the British government, in a range of different roles across defence and national security and the last few years of which were in direct support of cyber operations.

He was awarded UK Cyber Citizen of the Year in 2024.

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