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'''Dr. Alastair Carmichael MacWillson'''<ref name="companieshouse">{{cite web|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09154503/officers |title=CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA LTD - Officers (free information from Companies House) |website=Beta.companieshouse.gov.uk |date=2014-07-30 |accessdate=2016-12-12}}</ref> is a British [[cyber security]] professional. MacWillson is chair of the [[Institute of Information Security Professionals]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iisp.org/imis15/iisp/News/_IISP_announces_the_appointment_of_Dr_Alastair_MacWillson_as_new_Chairman.aspx |title=IISP announces the appointment of Dr Alastair MacWillson as new Chairman |website=Iisp.org |date=2011-04-01 |accessdate=2016-12-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.surrey.ac.uk/sccs/news/events/2015/cyber_security_vectors.htm |title=Cyber Security Vectors - University of Surrey - Guildford |website=Surrey.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=2016-12-12}}</ref> and of [[Qufaro]],<ref name="guardian">{{cite news|author=Eleanor Ross |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/24/college-of-national-security-teenage-codebreakers-school-open-bletchley-park |title=School for teenage codebreakers to open in Bletchley Park &#124; Technology |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date= |accessdate=2016-12-12}}</ref><ref name="ibtimes">{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uks-first-cybersecurity-college-open-historic-bletchley-park-1593212 |title=UK's first National College of Cyber Security to open at historic Bletchley Park |website=Ibtimes.co.uk |date=2016-11-24 |accessdate=2016-12-12}}</ref><ref name="wired">{{cite web|author=Tom Mendelsohn |url=https://arstechnica.com/business/2016/11/cyber-college-wannabe-codebreakers-earmarked-bletchley-park-site/ |title=Cyber college for wannabe codebreakers planned at UK’s iconic Bletchley Park |publisher=Ars Technica |date=2016-11-25 |accessdate=2016-12-12}}</ref> and a founding director of [[Cambridge Analytica]].<ref name="companieshouse" />  
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'''Dr. Alastair Carmichael MacWillson'''<ref name="companieshouse">https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09154503/officers </ref> is a British [[cyber security]] professional. MacWillson is chair of the [[Institute of Information Security Professionals]],<ref>https://www.iisp.org/imis15/iisp/News/_IISP_announces_the_appointment_of_Dr_Alastair_MacWillson_as_new_Chairman.aspx |title=IISP announces the appointment of Dr Alastair MacWillson as new Chairman</ref><ref>http://www.surrey.ac.uk/sccs/news/events/2015/cyber_security_vectors.htm </ref> and of [[Qufaro]],<ref name="guardian">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/24/college-of-national-security-teenage-codebreakers-school-open-bletchley-park</ref><ref name="ibtimes">http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uks-first-cybersecurity-college-open-historic-bletchley-park-1593212 </ref><ref name="wired">https://arstechnica.com/business/2016/11/cyber-college-wannabe-codebreakers-earmarked-bletchley-park-site/ </ref> and a founding director of [[Cambridge Analytica]].<ref name="companieshouse" />  
  
 
==Career==
 
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MacWillson spent 16 years in the [[UK Diplomatic Service]], working on technical and political risk analysis in the [[former USSR]], the [[Middle East]] and the [[United States]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/interviews/cloud-computing-compliance-challenges-i-1259 |title=Cloud Computing: Compliance Challenges |website=BankInfoSecurity.com |date=2011-10-05 |accessdate=2016-12-12}}</ref>
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MacWillson spent 16 years in the [[UK Diplomatic Service]], working on technical and political risk analysis in the [[former USSR]], the [[Middle East]] and the [[United States]].<ref>http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/interviews/cloud-computing-compliance-challenges-i-1259</ref>
  
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MacWillson is one of only three or four Brits at the [[Chertoff Group]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Davis |first=Michelle |url=https://www.washingtonexec.com/2014/06/chertoff-group-names-dr-alastair-macwillson-principle/ |title=The Chertoff Group Names Dr. Alastair MacWillson Principle |website=WashingtonExec.com |date=2014-06-17 |accessdate=2016-12-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=254204444&privcapId=36764 |title=Alastair MacWillson: Executive Profile & Biography |publisher=[[Bloomberg L.P.|Bloomberg]] |date=2014-10-30 |accessdate=2016-12-12}}</ref>
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MacWillson is one of only three or four Brits at the [[Chertoff Group]].<ref>https://www.washingtonexec.com/2014/06/chertoff-group-names-dr-alastair-macwillson-principle/ </ref><ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=254204444&privcapId=36764</ref>
  
 
MacWillson's [[Cambridge Analytica]], a "cyber security" firm, provides expert advice on highly technical security measures. Looking at what is in the public domain (mostly from statements given to US, UK or EU agencies) they (or MacWillson) have worked on projects for the World Bank, tracking missing $millions of aid from the Balkans war, worked on the 'integrity' of electronic voting machines used in several countries, worked with SWIFT on the security of interbank funds transfers.<ref name=cryptome2017>https://cryptome.org/2017/08/cambridge-analytica.htm</ref>
 
MacWillson's [[Cambridge Analytica]], a "cyber security" firm, provides expert advice on highly technical security measures. Looking at what is in the public domain (mostly from statements given to US, UK or EU agencies) they (or MacWillson) have worked on projects for the World Bank, tracking missing $millions of aid from the Balkans war, worked on the 'integrity' of electronic voting machines used in several countries, worked with SWIFT on the security of interbank funds transfers.<ref name=cryptome2017>https://cryptome.org/2017/08/cambridge-analytica.htm</ref>

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Person.png Alistair MacWillson   AmazonRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(spook, businessman)
BornFebruary 1953
NationalityUK
Alma materUniversity Of London, IMD International
Interests“terrorism”
Founding director of Cambridge Analytica

Dr. Alastair Carmichael MacWillson[1] is a British cyber security professional. MacWillson is chair of the Institute of Information Security Professionals,[2][3] and of Qufaro,[4][5][6] and a founding director of Cambridge Analytica.[1]

Career

MacWillson spent 16 years in the UK Diplomatic Service, working on technical and political risk analysis in the former USSR, the Middle East and the United States.[7]

MacWillson is one of only three or four Brits at the Chertoff Group.[8][9]

MacWillson's Cambridge Analytica, a "cyber security" firm, provides expert advice on highly technical security measures. Looking at what is in the public domain (mostly from statements given to US, UK or EU agencies) they (or MacWillson) have worked on projects for the World Bank, tracking missing $millions of aid from the Balkans war, worked on the 'integrity' of electronic voting machines used in several countries, worked with SWIFT on the security of interbank funds transfers.[10]

Publications

In the early 1990s MacWillson took a year out, to write Hostage Taking Terrorism,

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References

  1. ↑ a b https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09154503/officers
  2. ↑ https://www.iisp.org/imis15/iisp/News/_IISP_announces_the_appointment_of_Dr_Alastair_MacWillson_as_new_Chairman.aspx |title=IISP announces the appointment of Dr Alastair MacWillson as new Chairman
  3. ↑ http://www.surrey.ac.uk/sccs/news/events/2015/cyber_security_vectors.htm
  4. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/24/college-of-national-security-teenage-codebreakers-school-open-bletchley-park
  5. ↑ http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uks-first-cybersecurity-college-open-historic-bletchley-park-1593212
  6. ↑ https://arstechnica.com/business/2016/11/cyber-college-wannabe-codebreakers-earmarked-bletchley-park-site/
  7. ↑ http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/interviews/cloud-computing-compliance-challenges-i-1259
  8. ↑ https://www.washingtonexec.com/2014/06/chertoff-group-names-dr-alastair-macwillson-principle/
  9. ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=254204444&privcapId=36764
  10. ↑ https://cryptome.org/2017/08/cambridge-analytica.htm
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