Human Factor Security

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Episodes

Phil Kimpton

Phill Kimpton has been a Security Consultant for 18 months now, with no previous IT experience. He's passionate to continue developing his skills as a tester and takes great delight in helping others looking to follow the same path. In his spare time he can be found on Twitter, in the gym or jumping out of a perfectly serviceable aircraft. Jenny was delighted to be joined by Phil Kimpton aka phr33fall to talk about skydiving, careers and his determination to get into the information security bus...

May 10, 2019•47 min•Ep 96•Transcript available on Metacast

Thom Langford

Thom Langford, the founder of (TL)2 Security Ltd, returns to the show. Listen in as he and Jenny discuss the creation of his consultancy business, his approach to working with clients and his views on the state of the industry. To visit the (TL)2 Security Ltd's website click the link here . To visit Thom's personal site, with his presentations, click here . To follow Thom on Twitter click the link here . Don't forget you can also follow Jenny on Twitter by clicking the link here ....

May 03, 2019•43 min•Ep 95•Transcript available on Metacast

Meadow Ellis

Meadow is a hardware security dark witch with a keen eye and open heart to how normal users take what we, the security nerds, provide them with. Meadow also specialises in automation for the purpose of removing humans from the equation and is a firm believer in security serving normal users, not the other way around. Nothing makes her happier than being able to help others, be it with her job, the information security community work or by means of random Twitter threads - maybe apart from bangin...

Apr 26, 2019•52 min•Ep 94•Transcript available on Metacast

Paul O'Sullivan

Leading the sales team at Next Generation Security is the latest incarnation for Paul who has wide industry experience and strong opinions on the information security industry, lifelong learning and how sales professionals should go about doing their job. Pulling no punches, this is a fascinating interview that covers how this infosec professional sees the industry now, how to start out in your security career and why a people focus still matters even when you deal with the tech. Thank you for a...

Apr 12, 2019•56 min•Ep 93•Transcript available on Metacast

Mo Amin

Mo has extensive experience in helping organisations with the cultural and behavioural side of cyber security. He has gained this experience in roles across the public and private sector having worked on business as usual activities, security improvement programmes, transformation projects, large scale implementation programmes as well as projects that have had media coverage. Listen in to Mo and Jenny explore culture in organisations and how best to bring about positive change in any environmen...

Apr 05, 2019•57 min•Ep 92•Transcript available on Metacast

Lydia Kostopoulos

Dr. Lydia Kostopoulos consults on the intersection of people, strategy, technology, education, and national security. She addressed the United Nations member states on the military effects panel at the Convention of Certain Weapons Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) meeting on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS). Formerly the Director for Strategic Engagement at the College of Information and Cyberspace at the National Defense University, a Principal Consultant for PA and higher education ...

Mar 29, 2019•59 min•Ep 91•Transcript available on Metacast

Thomas Fischer

Thomas has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry ranging from software development to infrastructure & network operations and architecture to settle in information security. He has an extensive security background covering roles from incident responder to security architect at fortune 500 companies, vendors and consulting organisation s . He is currently security advocate and threat researcher focused on advising companies on understanding their data protection activities against malici...

Mar 22, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Ep 90•Transcript available on Metacast

Mark Carney

In this episode @LargeCardinal aka Mark Carney talks about his wide ranging career in IT and retro computers. His unusual route into the profession, and his views on the industry. A fellow Liverpudlian Mark has expertise in many different areas and is the founder of Bsides Leeds. Hacker & Mathmo, formerly a Musician; Having started out on helpdesk in a software firm, then becoming violinist with a degree in Music w/ Philosophy via being a DBA for a firm, Mark then went on to do an MSc and now fu...

Mar 15, 2019•57 min•Ep 89•Transcript available on Metacast

Ed Tucker

Ed Tucker is the co-founder of Human Firewall, an operationalised security awareness platform that enables a single employee to protect the whole organization. Ed is also co-founder of EmailAuth, a solution designed to increase adoption of DMARC, providing enhanced email deliverability and customer protection. Ed was previously CIO at security startup DP Governance and prior to that head of cybersecurity at HM Revenue & Customs. He was the 2017 European Chief Information Security Officer of the ...

Mar 01, 2019•1 hr•Ep 87•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 86: Liz Hardwick

Liz Hardwick is Co-Founder of DigiEnable, an award-winning Digital Training & Services Company, based in Lancashire. She designs and delivers tech-based and online marketing workshops and is a professional speaker, appearing at conferences and events across the UK and beyond. Liz’s career started in broadcasting working for a number of the major radio and television companies, as well as spending a number of years creating media for charities prior to starting her own business. She is a publishe...

Feb 22, 2019•58 min•Ep 86•Transcript available on Metacast