Rob Ainscough

Chief Identity Security Advisor - EMEA

Hitchin, England, United Kingdom

About

Helping IAM & security leaders to navigate the complex world of identity security, optimise IAM spending & generate provable security outcomes.

Experience

  • Advisor at The Identity Underground
    Aug 2025 - Present · 11 mos

  • Chief Identity Security Advisor - EMEA at Silverfort
    Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    Sharing the benefits of my 8 years leading identity at scale to help companies to understand the rapidly evolving world of IAM & identity security & better secure themselves.

  • Tesco (13 yrs 8 mos)
    • Head of Identity & Access Management
      Nov 2016 - Jan 2025 · 8 yrs 3 mos

      Established the IAM programme for Tesco from scratch covering IGA, PAM and SSO/MFA. I led development and implementation of the vision, strategy, team, technologies and capabilities to manage access risk in Tesco at scale. Highlights include: - Establishing a unique identity for every employee and third parties globally (c.450,000 people) - Building IGA to manage access for hundreds of applications and thousands of infrastructure components, covering millions of accounts & access entitlements with high levels of automation for joiners, movers, leavers and access requests. - SSO implementation for hundreds of corporate systems - 400,000+ person MFA implementation - Developed secure account setup and recovery solution, rooted in strong identity verification, for secure credential management - Developed & implemented simple QR code-enabled authentication method for low-risk/high volume authentications in stores and depots. - Implemented PAM for key financial controls systems

    • Head of Technology - Capability
      Oct 2015 - Oct 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Leading on identifying and delivering improvements to the existing communications (xMatters) and service desk (Zendesk) platforms across the Tesco Group.

    • Capability Development Manager
      Apr 2015 - Oct 2015 · 7 mos

      Lead the team procuring, developing and implementing a new service desk tool (Zendesk) globally for Tesco.

  • Summer Intern at Deloitte UK
    Jul 2009 - Aug 2009 · 2 mos

    Internship covering both Advisory and Audit placements.