# Prateek Ashok-Kumar

> Prateek Ashok-Kumar is a UK-based cyber security leader in aerospace and critical infrastructure. He is the Digital Security Officer at Prestwick Aerosystems (an Airbus affiliate), working through Airbus Protect. He holds CISSP and an MSc in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London, and was named Graduate of the Year at the 2025 ITP Telecoms Awards.

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## Name

- Preferred: Prateek Ashok-Kumar (hyphenated). Also written as Prateek Ashok Kumar.
- Pronouns: he/him.

## Current role

- Digital Security Officer, Prestwick Aerosystems (on assignment from Airbus Protect), since October 2025. He leads cyber security for the Scottish aerostructures site, which builds wing components for the Airbus A320 and A350 families, as it integrates into Airbus.
- Cybersecurity Consultant, Airbus Protect, since January 2025.

## Earlier work

- Airbus (through Airbus Protect), 2025: third-party security assurance for the Airbus commercial supply chain, including EASA Part-IS.
- BT Group, 2022–2024, cyber security graduate programme:
  - designed BT's second-line quarterly governance and assurance process for the UK Telecoms Security Act
  - modelled the threat of a cryptographically relevant quantum computer in financial terms (FAIR, Monte Carlo) for emerging-risk reporting to BT's Executive Committee
  - chaired BT's Early Professionals Group (200+ members)
- Founder of C-BoT, a patent-pending IoT start-up incubated at AIC-DSU while at university.

## Recognition

- Graduate of the Year, ITP Telecoms Awards 2025: https://theitp.org/events/itp-telecoms-award-winners-2025
- Excellence in Career Advancement (School of Engineering), Dayananda Sagar University Inspire to Aspire Alumni Awards 2025
- Prize winner, UK Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge 2022 (Atlantic Council)

## Credentials

- CISSP (ISC2)
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer
- MSc Information Security, Royal Holloway, University of London (2022)
- BTech Computer Technology, Dayananda Sagar University (2021)
- Associate of the Chartered Institute of Information Security (ACIIS); Member of the Institute of Telecommunications Professionals (MITP)

## Writing

- Putting a price on the quantum threat (30 Oct 2026): how to turn "harvest now, decrypt later" into a number a board can act on, using FAIR and Monte Carlo simulation. https://prateekashokkumar.com/writing/quantum-risk/

## Topics

Security governance and regulation (UK Telecoms Security Act, EASA Part-IS, NIS2), cyber risk quantification, post-quantum risk, supply-chain security, incident management, and building security teams.

## Links

- Profile: https://prateekashokkumar.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-ashok/
- Photo: https://prateekashokkumar.com/headshot.jpg

Views expressed are personal and do not represent Airbus, Airbus Protect or Prestwick Aerosystems.