Steve Watkins is a director of Kinsnall Consulting Ltd, which provides strategic and tactical advice and training on cybersecurity, information security and privacy standards, and certification schemes.

He is a contracted technical assessor for UKAS, conducting assessments of certification bodies offering ISMS/ISO 27001, PIMS/ISO 27701, and ITSMS/ISO 20000-1 accredited certification. He also undertakes information security assessments of forensic science laboratories seeking accreditation to the Forensic Science Regulator’s codes of practice and conduct.

Steve is a member of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27, the international technical committee responsible for information security, cybersecurity, and privacy protection standards, where he is a co-editor of ISO/IEC 27006-1. He chairs IST 33, the UK national standards body’s technical committee that mirrors SC 27, and is a member of the European Commission’s Stakeholder Cybersecurity Certification Group (SCCG).

Steve started working with ISMS standards in 1997. He has since supported a wide range of training and consultancy clients working with ISO/IEC 27001, including globally recognized brands, public-sector organizations, and a wide selection of SMEs. Steve was a director of IT Governance Ltd from 2008 and on the board of GRC International Group PLC through to May 2021.