Last week I took part in IT Security Guru’s tweet chat. It was a fun little tweet along and they’ve now taken the time to write it up as a blog for those who missed it. You can check out the blog piece here. Thanks to IT Security Guru for facilitating it and much respect […]
People, process and technology: A post for newbies.
The people, process and technology triangle is over rated. Yeh I said it! Oooh I can already sense some people getting ready to flame me. Ok, it’s a bit of a click bait title but what isn’t today. Ok, let me tell you a story… A little background… A while back a graduate asked me […]
Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2020
The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (VDBIR) is a must read for anyone in the info and cyber security field as it provides a really good insight into current data breach trends and it’s pretty too, yes reports can be pretty look… I sat down with an ice cream (erm…it’s a lockdown coping control oh […]
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 […]
Security Culture TV
A few years ago my friend Kai Roer and I got on Google Hangouts to talk about security awareness, behaviour and culture and we had some great guests join us. Now it’s back and Kai invited me along to have a catch up, cheers bro! I’m looking forward to all the new guests, their perspectives and opinions. […]
Infosecurity Magazine Panel
Along with Flavius Plesu and Lauren Zink, I was invited by Info Security Magazine to be a panelist on their On Demand EMEA Online Summit. Full agenda here: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/online-summits/online-summit-emea-fall-2019/ Our topic was “Building Brand Infosec: From Engaging with Employees to Driving Secure Behaviour” and I addressed the challenge of building a security champions network. You can find the recording here and my slides […]
Transformational Security Awareness
During the SANS European Security Awareness Summit I had the pleasure of meeting Perry Carpenter he mentioned he was writing a book on security awareness and was going to include a section where he interviewed practitioners in the field and asked if I would like to be in it. He explained the premise and the goal of […]
PeepSec 2019
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 […]