John Finch, ICT Security and Networks Team Leader from Plymouth City Council, reflects upon his practical experience to identify some of the difficulties that may be encountered when trying to take the security theory through to implementation in workplace environments. The event was hosted at Plymouth University as a talk for the South West Branches of BCS - the Chartered Institute for IT, and the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP) [(CC) BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK]