Every year Security Serious holds the Unsung Heroes Awards, with categories ranging from “Godmother / Godfather of Security” through to “Best Security Awareness Campaign”. I was genuinely surprised to learn that I was in the running for a Security Leader / Mentor award. “The winner of this award will be someone in industry who leads […]
The Jerich Show
The lovely Javvad Malik and Erich Kron, invited me to join them on their show to chat about a few issues in the news as well as a bit about security awareness and culture. It was nice to be invited and a fun chat, thanks guys! You can the episode here.
Context Switching
It’s like alt-tabbing constantly but in real life. Imagine the following… You’re trying to get on with your daily tasks. You’re in your flow and you notice an email come in marked urgent which you’re cc’d into and a bunch of people want your opinion on something today. You answer it and get back to […]
Visual Thinking
I like to doodle. I doodle when I’m in meetings. I doodle when I’m on the phone. I find it helps my creativity. I recently purchased Visual Thinking and it’s already giving me some cool ideas, especially when you need images for presentations. Now I’m thinking why not create my own? Obviously it’ll depend on […]
Goodbye 2013 hello 2014
At the beginning of a New Year I usually set myself some goals, If I reach these goals then I reward myself. If I don’t reach them well then no goodies for me. This harks back to when I was a child…discipline ruled. Naturally, I didn’t like it at the time but in most things […]
Infosec’s Rising Stars and Hidden Gems
Somehow I made it onto Tripwire’s list of rising stars and hidden gems! I’ll take gem over star any day! It was quite flattering to find out I was on this list. I did have to ask them to edit it as I’m more of an educator than hacker. Thank you Tripwire!
