Earlier this week I went across to Level 39 after I was invited by CybSafe to be a speaker at their annual online summit, PeepSec. The summit is focussed around opportunities and issues concerning people and technology. They had some excellent speakers that I was humbled to be alongside. Here’s the link to the main PeepSec page and a link to my interview with […]
Human Factor Security Podcast
The wonderful Jenny Radcliffe who runs Human Factor Security invited me on to her awesome podcast for a chat. She’s had some great names on her show and I was flattered to be invited. You can have a listen to it here
Restricted Intelligence Blog Series
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 […]
The Security Culture Conference 2016
A couple of weeks ago I was back in beautiful Oslo (One of my favourite cities – I could definitely live there!) for the Security Culture Conference. Last year we had around 25 people for the inaugural conference which was held on an island just outside the city – see my write up on that here. This […]
SteelCon 2015
Last week I presented my “Popping the Bubble” talk at Steel Con – The North’s Premier Hacker Con – https://www.steelcon.info/ – I think it went down quite well and there was some spirited discussion after the talk. Robin (@digininja) and the crew put on a great conference at an amazing price of only £20 – The goodie […]
The Security Culture Conference 2015
So the Security Culture conference happened! On an Island…no really…it was on an island…look… The journey there took about twenty minutes on a ferry and a small boat to get to the island called Lille Herbern. The venue was actually a restaurant – the only one on the island. The day began with Roar Thon’s […]
Build a Security Culture (Fundamentals)
My good friend Kai Roer has written an easy to digest book on security culture. Anyone who has been in security for a while will know of Kai and his work on security awareness and culture. He was very kind give me a mention in the book, cheers Kai! It’s a short and accessible book and you […]
