I’ve known the good folk at Restricted Intelligence for a while now, I was in their offices recently as they had invited me in to provide a consultants perspective around information security awareness programmes. During the visit they asked if I would write a blog series with some tips on how to increase the chances of running […]
SANS European Security Awareness Summit
Last week, I had the privilege of presenting along Denise Beardon (Head of Information Security Engagement at Pinsent Masons) at the SANS European Security Awareness Summit. Towards the end of 2017 Christian Toon (CISO at Pinsent Masons) asked if I could come onboard as an interim consultant to kick-start their information security engagement stream of work whilst he was […]
IISP Talking Head Piece – Security Culture
Over the last few years the discussion around security culture has come to the fore and having worked in and around this area for a while I welcome it; particularly when, one of the simplest ways to reduce risk to organisations is to have a security conscious workforce. However, it is not as simple as […]
Smashing the Stack but for None of the Fun or Profit – The Importance of Wellbeing
I’ve been meaning to write about this topic for a while and have finally found some time. It’s an important one, why? Well, because it is about our wellbeing. Most of you will know about the paper that Aleph One wrote back in 1996 entitled “Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit”. That was about stack buffer […]