Marika Nicols

Background

My career spans twenty-five years of senior advisory work across enterprise technology, financial risk, and board-level governance — from designing secure infrastructure for Fortune 500 institutions to leading complex cyber risk programmes for some of the world's most systemically significant organisations. That breadth of expertise — technical, financial, and fiduciary — is the foundation upon which ATLAS Cyber Risk is built.

Marika Nicols

Approach

My philosophy brings together deep engineering knowledge of how technology estates fail, and the financial discipline to express that risk in terms boards and executive leadership can act upon. The result is analysis that is precise, tailored to the firm, and fit for the governance environments in which my clients operate.

Credentials & Affiliations

Professional certifications

  • CISPP 
  • CRISC
  • QRE
  • PMP

Affiliations

  • ISC2
  • ISACA
  • Instute of Directors (IoD)
  • NED

Career Path

2026 — Present
Founder & Principal Advisor
ATLAS Cyber Risk
Founded to bring actuarial-grade cyber risk quantification to boards and executive leadership teams in regulated industries.
2025 — 2026
Global Head of Cyber Risk
Liebherr Group
Built the board-level cyber risk programme — models, governance, and financial exposure framework — from the ground up.
2023 — 2025
Head of Cybersecurity, Integration & Risk
UBS
Led the security workstream of the $3.2B Credit Suisse acquisition — including the Cyber VaR assessment that directly informed board-level capital allocation decisions.
2020 — 2022
Director of Cyber Risk Advisory
DXC Technology
Reduced quantified cyber risk exposure from $11B to $1.5M for the organisation underpinning 95% of the UK insurance market.
2018 — 2020
Founder & Lead Consultant
Titanium Cybersecurity
Founded a boutique cyber risk consultancy — notable engagements include the emergency response to the 2017 NotPetya attack and reducing a client's quantified residual risk from $200M to $35M.
2001 — 2015
Security Technical Program Manager
IBM
Built a 14-year career advising Fortune 500 organisations at the frontier of enterprise infrastructure transformation — at a time when the frameworks governing cloud security did not yet exist.

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