Sarah Armstrong-Smith is Chief Security Advisor in Microsoft’s Cybersecurity Solutions Area. She principally works with strategic and major customers across Europe, to help them evolve their security strategy and capabilities to support digital transformation and cloud adoption.

Sarah has a background in business continuity, disaster recovery, data protection and privacy, as well as crisis management. Combining these elements means she operates holistically to understand the cybersecurity and compliance landscape, and how this can be proactively enabled to deliver effective resilience.

Sarah has been recognised as one of the most influential and inspiring women in UK Tech and UK cybersecurity and regularly contributes to thought leadership and industry publications. She is passionate about pushing boundaries and challenging the status quo.