Tony Collings OBE - Principal Director, Electronic Commerce Associates (ECA) LImited
After 35 years in the Army Tony took early retirement having been CIO of LAND Command to further his interest in electronic commerce in a trusted environment; establishing Electronic Commerce Associates Limited in 1998.
He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, an early supporter and sponsor of IISP, a subject matter expert in Identity Management and a non executive director of the Enterprise Privacy Group. As a qualified UK government Security Accreditor, CLAS consultant and security professional Tony has many years practical experience of pragmatic security, resilience and fraud prevention issues applied in practice. He also directs teams intimately involved in the design, construction and operation of high availability, energy efficient and secure Data and Control Centres. He regularly speaks at national and international conferences as an expert in achieving Integrity and Trust in large Identity systems in their widest sense.
For 3 years Tony headed the security team of the Home Office Identity Card Programme challenging and then establishing many of the core principles for Integrity and Security within the wider subject of practical Identity Management in government. At present he is advising a number of Programmes and initiatives on the challenge of restoring ‘Trust’ around the system and process of managing and assuring Privacy and Data Handling issues holistically.
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