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unwind outside the office?
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and the days I get
most
sea before work are possibly the
.
productive days of the year
If you could go back and change
one career decision what would
it be?
I have
This may sound exaggerated, but
and
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care
my
enjoyed ever y part of
wouldn’t change a thing. I spent the
ed
perfect amount of time being train
s
nsic
by the police in digital fore
and investigating cybercrime, and
I now have my dream job working
for a huge Internet security
company which allows me to
talk cybersecurity all day with
the scope to develop new and
innovative ways of making that
message stick.
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potential in training. I see nano lear
with
staff
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to
tool
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as
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coupled with engaging media and
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real-life examples. This is complete
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laborious one to
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directives used by so many, which
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turns people into clicking the answ
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without taking in the
Are there any differences in the
way cybersecurity challenges
need to be tackled in the
different regions? Middle East,
Africa, Europe, Americas.)
shift
around cybersecurity and slowly
iously
older cultures which may have prev
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real
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disregarded the thre
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This bodes well in terms of preventin
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whe
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and mitigating future thre
before it was rarely seen as anything
other than the IT manager’s problem.
Cyberattacks are an inevitability but
best
reducing their size and scale is the
bers
mem
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boa
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CEO
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action.
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the risks to
In my role I purely focus on the
UK cyberinfrastructure. What advice would you
offer somebody aspiring to
obtain c-level position in the
security industry?
What changes to your job
role have you seen in the last
year and how do you see these
developing in the next 12 months? t these
The right qualifications are a mus
stry
indu
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righ
the
with
pled
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but
days
or
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and even public sector/p
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experience creates the best platform
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excel into
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I keep reading that there is a lack
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into
people coming
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have
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and
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sham
is a real
re in
massive impact on the threat pictu
have
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ths
mon
12
the future. In the last
rd
seen more top-level staff and boa
g said
members take note of what is bein first-
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train
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courses on side. Then moving to
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private industry
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to my
What do you currently
identify as the major
areas of investment in the
cybersecurity industry?
Hacking the human is always
by far the easiest way in for an
attacker and therefore that is
the place to start with regards
to investment. Ideally, all threat
gaps need to be plugged but the
landscape is constantly evolving
and sadly we have been on the
back-foot for quite some time.
Companies of all sizes are
finally starting to realise the
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