Interview: Betfair's 29 year-old global head of security, Adrian Asher

Betfair's global head of security seems to have it all: bosses who listen, resources most of us can only dream of, and youth.

The first thing I did when meeting Adrian Asher was to try and work out his age. It's not often in this business that you meet someone who not only looks shockingly young, but actually is. It turns out that the global head of security at online gaming hub Betfair is a mere 29 years old, which means he doesn't know a world without PCs, multi-channel TV or indeed, online betting. He can probably recall the days before the internet, but only just. Asher has been with Betfair for some four years now, having started out in applications security. He was employee number 400, he says of ...
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