The role of the IT Director has evolved rapidly. Once focused on infrastructure and transformation, it now carries responsibility for security oversight, regulatory compliance, incident response and board-level accountability. Cybersecurity hasn’t arrived with clear boundaries, it has steadily become part of the IT leader’s remit.

 

In this session, Ollie Spence explores how security accountability has shifted onto IT Directors, often without added resource or clarity. He’ll address the realities of fragmented tools, limited visibility, rising expectations and the need to provide defensible answers at board level.

 

The focus is on regaining control: simplifying oversight, reducing noise, improving visibility and moving from reactive firefighting to structured cyber leadership.

 

Cyber is no longer adjacent to IT — it sits firmly within it. The question is not whether you own it, but how effectively you lead it.