“It’s relatively easy to land a new firewall, it’s incredibly difficult to shift an entire business culture” – An Interview with Phil Scully

Phil Scully has made a name for himself as an experienced business architect, having held roles at some of the worlds most credible brands across the past 17 years including Marks & Spencer, Whitbread and currently Costa. Now the CIO of the UK’s largest coffeehouse chain, we spoke to Phil about his shift into cyber […]
Cyber Security in the Clouds and CISOs in the Boardroom – An Interview with David Lello

Having previously worked within the banking industry for almost 5 years, David Lello has worked on lots of transformative projects from internet and telephone banking, to implementing cloud transformations. Now the CISO at Burning Tree, David has helped many companies embrace new security improvement programs and adopting emerging technologies, such as the Internet of Things. […]
Law and Digital Order: Why Achieving ISO27001 Certification Is Merely The Beginning

As one of the leading legal firms in the technology space, Bird & Bird have successfully developed information security into a clear core competency and significant point of difference, as highlighted by their ongoing ISO 27001 accreditation. We met with CTO, Karen Jacks, and Information Security Officer, Tim Collinson, to learn how they have built robust […]
Protect your organisation, by thinking like a hacker – An Interview with Bridget Kenyon

Bridget Kenyon is a highly experienced member of the information security industry, holding CISO roles at a number of companies across the UK, Bridget has also been a member and editor at the Internation Organization for Standardization since 2008. Currently the Global CISO at Thales eSecurity, we met with Bridget to learn about a number […]
Building your cyber team and the underestimated role of diversity – An Interview with Vickie Guilloit

Victoria Guilloit is a leading expert in cyber security and privacy awareness, providing education and training to large brands such as Unilever, Schroders and John Lewis, to ensure that large scale change programmes work for people at all levels of the organisation. We met with Victoria to learn about: Her principles for developing a great […]
Why cyber criminals should be targeting SME’s & how AI will impact the cyber landscape – An Interview with Steve Wright

As Former (Interim) DPO to the Bank of England, and Group Data Privacy & Infosec Officer of John Lewis, Steve Wright is considered one of the leading minds in data privacy and security. He is a published author and has recently released a whitepaper on GDPR Maturity Framework. We met with Steve to learn […]
A Cyber Sec Love Story: CISOs and Sales

Helen Rabe is the Head of Global Security Information & Operations at AbCam, and one of the most respected figures in the industry. We met with Helen to discuss: Why CISOs should invest in building relationships with great sales people. Why so many sales people get it all wrong. How both parties can take much […]
Security Target Operating Models and why every Organisation needs one – An interview with Shanne Edwards

Shanne Edwards is a Senior Advisor within the Risk Management team at NCC group. Having previously worked with Pearson and Vodafone, he has delivered significant security improvements worldwide to ensure compliance in some of the biggest businesses in the finance sector. Considered an expert ‘Agent of Change’, he’s always happy to help any business grow, […]
ANTICIPATING THREATS, DEVELOPING TALENT AND INTEGRATING ROBOTICS – JAVVAD MALIK ON THE FUTURE OF CYBER SECURITY

Javvad Malik is a security advocate for Alien Vault, prominent information security blogger and co-founder of Security B-Sides London. The Cyber Leader’s Network spoke to him to find out how AI and machine learning is changing cyber security, and how firms can handle the growing skills gap in info-sec whilst retaining talent. 1) WHAT […]
“THE THREAT IS CHANGING AND EVOLVING AT A RAPID RATE” – LEADING BRITISH BUSINESS PERSON

We interviewed one of the UK’s most prominent businessmen to get some insight into how Cyber Security can be seen as a positive differentiator and where Cyber Security belongs on a boards agenda. 1) IS CYBER SECURITY ABOUT MITIGATING RISK OR CAN IT BE SEEN AS A POSITIVE DIFFERENTIATOR? 2) WHAT’S YOUR PERSPECTIVE […]