UKtech50 2012 - The most influential people in UK IT

Iain Lobban is the director of intelligence gathering facility Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), one of the three UK intelligence agencies, working with MI5 and MI6 to protect the UK's national security interests. The agency’s cybercrime strategy has seen GCHQ taking a more proactive and collaborative role in helping companies and public sector bodies tackle the growing cyber threats, and Lobban has increasingly been the public face of this initiative.