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Security Matters

2026 Cybersecurity Outlook: Protect Your Data Before AI Cyber Warfare Costs You

Lloyd's Library, Lloyd's Building, One Lime Street, London EC3M 7HA,

Thursday 16 April 2026

12:00PM - 14:00PM

Introduction

Whether your business is a growing startup or a global enterprise, join frontline experts from CTERA, Cato Networks, and Akamai Technologies to gain actionable insights on neutralising AI-driven cyberattacks, staying ahead of emerging trends, and implementing practical strategies to bolster ransomware resilience while minimising costly downtime. That’s the difference between a headline-grabbing crisis and a minor security event.

Delivered by Lloyd's market professionals, leading UK/global security, and legal experts, these popular, fast paced 90-minute forums, provide insight to some of the latest cyber and fraud threat tripwires and the proactive steps that market companies can make to improve strategies to help defend against these attacks.

There will be an opportunity to put questions to the presenters at the end of the forum.

CTERA leads in hybrid files services, unifying on-prem, remote and cloud data with enterprise security and cyber resilience.  Trusted across 50,000+ locations, its Global File System provides distributed teams with low-latency access and multi-cloud scalability. A four-time GigaOm Radar leader, CTERA offers zero-trust architecture, ransomware protection, and AI-powered data intelligence.
 
Cato Networks is a leader in SASE and AI security, delivers secure, zero-trust access everywhere to thousands of customers worldwide. Built for organizations operating across all cloud and hybrid environments, the Cato SASE Platform unifies networking, security, and access, providing them as elastic, modular capabilities that organizations can easily adopt and grow over time. Cato combines the Cato Cloud, a purpose-built global network, with simplified operational experience, all delivered across a robust, AI-driven platform.  With Cato, organisations modernize confidently, operate with greater resilience, and innovate faster, without added complexity or risk. 
 
Akamai Technologies is a leading cloud computing, security, and content delivery network (CDN) provider that powers and protects life online. It operates a massive, distributed edge network, utilising over 400,000 servers in 135+ countries to bring content, applications, and security closer to users, improving performance and reducing latency.

Who Should Attend

Forewarned is forearmed...or at very least prepared and informed.  

This session - the second of this year's 'Security Matters' Lunchtime Forums - has been tailored to the needs of senior business; IT and security professionals; technology architects and developers; finance officers; legal, risk and compliance executives; IT audit and data managers; underwriters and brokers who work in the Lloyd's and London insurance market. If this forum is relevant to other colleagues within your company, then please forward this e-mail to them. Thank you.

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Insurance Technology Forums’ (ITF) aim is to provide ‘knowledge events’ for practitioners working for Lloyd's and London insurance market company affiliates, trade associations, professional bodies and standards agencies.

Supported by globally respected academics, authors, innovators and senior insurance market professionals, the reqularly held 'IT Matters' and 'Security Matters' forums, ‘Webinars’ and companion ‘Roundtable briefings’ focus on IT and cybersecurity innovation offering CPD-eligible training and insights towards your sector-recognised CPD vocational training modules.

Agenda

12:00 - 12:10
Delegates arrive at Lloyd's Library

12:10 - 12:15
Welcome and Introductions by Jerry Adley, Forum Chairman

12:15 - 13:30
Presentations and Q&A

13:30 - 14:00
Buffet Lunch and Networking in Lloyd's Library Foyer

14:00 - 14:00
Close.

Speakers

Jerry Adley - Forum Chairman
Jerry Adley

Forum Chairman

Welcome, Introductions and Scene Setting

With over 45 years of experience, Jerry Adley is a veteran of the London Insurance Market, specialising in IT solutions for underwriting and broking. Throughout his career—which included a 12-year tenure at the Lloyd’s Corporation—he has focused on driving user engagement and delivering tangible business results.
 
Although Jerry retired at the end of 2025, he remains a dedicated advocate for the industry. He continues to lead the Insurance Technology Forums (ITF) as Chair of the ‘IT/Security Matters’ Programme, ensuring the market stays connected and secure.

Jon Arnold - Senior Marketing and Sales Director, Northern Europe at CTERA
Jon Arnold

Senior Marketing and Sales Director, Northern Europe at CTERA

"Cyber Resilience in the Age of AI-Driven Threats”

Jon Arnold is a seasoned technology sales and marketing leader with a proven track record in driving growth across government, defense, and enterprise sectors. Formerly a director at Riverbed, Juniper, and RealWear, he has spearheaded major European initiatives for Viptela and SimpliVity, alongside key roles at Cisco and Coverity.

Seetal Patel - Cybersecurity Specialist at Cato Networks
Seetal Patel

Cybersecurity Specialist at Cato Networks

“Securing AI: Visibility, Control and Shadow AI Risk”

Seetal is a cybersecurity visionary with 25 years of experience architecting resilience for global enterprise and government. A specialist in Zero Trust architecture and risk-driven security transformation, Seetal bridges the gap between complex compliance and operational agility.
 
As a contributor to NIST NCCoE initiatives Seetal is dedicated to mentoring the next generation of defenders, empowering organisations to turn security from a hurdle into a competitive advantage in an ever-shifting threat landscape.

Tim Westlake  - Enterprise Security Architect at Akamai Technologies
Tim Westlake

Enterprise Security Architect at Akamai Technologies

“DDoS Attacks - a Strategic Threat”

Tim is a Technical Pre-Sales Specialist in Infrastructure Security,  architecting solutions to defend high profile international business organisations in Financial services and Retail as well as Government and critical national infrastructure services. Tim translates deep technical expertise in security and networking into scalable service solutions.

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