Connor

Security, Governance, and AI

Connor Wellbourne-Wood

Head of Security & Compliance, BLP Digital

Who I am

Everything I do is downstream of one thing: interest.

Most of security and governance comes down to one question: does this system actually do what we believe it does?

I lead security and compliance: the risk, policy and assurance an organisation answers for, and enough engineering underneath to know whether the controls are real.

What I do

Governance where it is enough, engineering where it is not. The same question in five places.

  1. 01Information Security Management Systems (ISMS)
  2. 02Cybersecurity Engineering
  3. 03AI Governance
  4. 04AI Security Tooling
  5. 05Product Management & Delivery

Writing & ideas

What I'm thinking about.

  1. Note Efficiency AI and opportunity AI There are two distinct reasons to bring AI into a business. Efficiency does the same work faster. Opportunity does work that was never feasible before. Rarely, one integration does both. Sep 25, 2026
  2. Essay Policy velocity and the rate of control loss We are governing AI at a fraction of the speed it is advancing. The gap between policy and reality compounds, and security and GRC practitioners are the ones who have to close it. Aug 10, 2026
  3. Note Tokenminning Enterprises are getting LLM bills larger than a developer's salary. Five ways to cut token cost without sacrificing output, starting with the biggest one, model routing. Jul 6, 2026
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Security, AI, a talk, or a good question. All welcome.

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