Ignite Session: PEOPLE, CULTURE & SKILLS

This session delivers a practical cultural and leadership framework for shifting rail from reactive cyber defence to proactive, safety-led security thinking, embedding cyber awareness into everyday operational decisions.

• Adapting to modern threats, reframing cyber security as a safety-critical discipline, strengthening business justification and executive prioritisation

• Embedding security-by-design thinking into digital projects: if you cannot protect it, do not deploy it.

• Best practice driving behavioural change through workforce awareness and training, reducing human-led risk.

• Leading from the top, mobilising senior leadership to set standards, enforcing accountability, and accelerating cultural adoption

• Increasing awareness, making cyber risk tangible, linking digital threats to real-world service disruption and passenger impact

• Building organisational cyber knowledge at scale, across operators and suppliers