Pinpoint Security provides independent, senior-level cybersecurity leadership and practical advice for boards, executives, investors and regulated organisations across the UK and internationally. Our work spans cyber risk, insider risk, Safe AI adoption, continuous control validation, resilience, due diligence, incident response and strategic security transformation. We help organisations make better decisions, strengthen assurance and turn complex technology risk into clear, actionable priorities.

 

DEREK WHIGHAM | FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL ADVISOR

 

Derek is a cybersecurity leader and strategic advisor with 28 years' experience across financial services, telecommunications and security technology. He was most recently Chief Product Owner within the Chief Security Office at Lloyds Banking Group, where he directed operational cyber defence, e-crime and intelligence functions, led large-scale transformation programmes and managed more than thirty product owners and specialist teams.

 

He serves as Senior Advisor to AttackIQ, Non-Executive Director and Strategic Advisor to Acumen Cyber, and advisor to OPSWAT and Detego Global. He is Research Director for AI and Quantum Computing at ISACA and a member of the Advisory Council at the MITRE Center for Threat-Informed Defense, where his work focuses on emerging-technology risk and cyber resilience.

 

Derek writes regularly on AI security, threat-informed defence and continuous validation, and speaks on the next industrial revolution of AI, quantum and biotechnology. He holds CISSP and CEH certifications.

 

HOW WE WORK

 

Independent: we sell no products and take no vendor commissions. Evidence-led: we validate that controls work rather than assume they do. Board-ready: we translate technical risk into decisions, priorities and defensible actions.