Paul Toal
Field CISO, Senior Director
Paul has worked in security for around 27 years, and, after 18 years at Oracle, is amongst Oracle EMEA's most senior security experts, focusing on a number of areas within the field of cyber security. Paul works at all levels within organisations, from board level through to architects and developers, explaining and demonstrating the importance of security in the connected, cyber world. He also spends a lot of time helping companies to understand how security is used to reduce risk, as well as improve user experience and an organisation's security posture. Paul provides a strong link between customers and product engineering, to collate requirements, incubate new services and drive strategy.
Paul has been involved in several large cloud transformation programmes as the lead security architect of the solution. In addition, Paul was one of the original authors of the UK Government's Identity Assurance specification (Gov.UK Verify).
Recently, Paul has co-authored a whitepaper looking at how to approach zero trust security within Oracle Cloud.