The Cyber Security Podcast from PwC UK

How prepared are you to respond to a ransomware attack? In this episode our host Chloe Seaton is joined by Fran Thompson from the Irish HSE and Pat Moran from PwC Ireland to discuss key lessons all organisations can learn from the ransomware attack on the Irish HSE in May 2021. The discussion covers crisis response in the heat of a ransomware attack, tackling the challenges of business recovery and bringing systems back online, why organisations need to understand the extent of the dependence of their critical services on technology, and how to boost cyber security preparedness and build ransomware resilience.

In this episode, our new host Chloe Seaton is joined by Lucie Usher, EMEA Intelligence Officer for FS-ISAC and Luc Manfredi, a Director in our Cyber Security team in the UK to discuss what is driving cyber resilience up the regulatory agenda in sectors such as financial services, energy and utilities; the key cyber risks for organisations in regulated sectors, including supply chain attacks, the growing use of operational technology in industrial operations and geopolitical unrest; how the regulatory landscape is evolving around cyber resilience - nationally and globally; and what organisations in regulated sectors can do to increase cyber resilience and ensure compliance through greater information sharing, rigorous self-assessment and continuous exercising and testing.

In this episode, we’re joined by our UK Cyber Security Chair, Richard Horne and UK Cyber Security Director, Laura Duncan to discuss:

• What is a heightened state of cyber alert?
• How do you assess your vulnerability and respond to different levels of cyber alert?
• What scenarios do you need to plan for and what actions should you prioritise?
• How do you embed cyber resilience across your organisation and people - and how do you manage security fatigue in a prolonged heightened state of alert?

In this episode we’re joined by Richard Horne to discuss how CEOs can reduce complexity and make their organisations more securable. 

We discuss: whether CEOs are taking enough of a role in tackling cyber risk; how embracing simplicity can benefit their organisations; how CEOs can embed cyber security into transformation plans.

Host: Abigail Wilson, Cyber Threat Operations Manager, PwC UK
Guest: Richard Horne, UK Cyber Security Chair, PwC UK

In this episode we’re joined by Kris McConkey and Krystle Reid to discuss the latest cyber threats you need to defend against. We cover: 
- the key threat trends from last year
- threats we expect to be prominent in 2021, including cyber risk considerations around the hybrid working mode
- how organisations can combat these threats.