Thomas has more than 25 years of experience, he has a unique view on enterprise security with experience across multiple domains from policy and risk management, secure development and enterprise incident response and forensics. Thomas has held roles varying from a security architect for a large fortune 500 company to consultant for both industry vendors and consulting organizations. He is an active participant in the InfoSec Community including being a director of Security BSides London.

Key Minutes:

2:35 Meeting Cyber Security for the first time

3:57 What is cyber security to you?

5:55 Individuals leading to the biggest threat

9:15 The most common threats

11:55 Will the threats go away?

13:00 How can we keep moving forwards to protect ourselves?

14:55 What is the main objective of any attack?

16:40 The more innovation is leaving us open to risk

20:15 How do we make the business aware of the risk?

24:00 What changes if you are communicating threats to the business?

27:07 Finding vulnerabilities in the business

28:14 What tools can be used to support this?

31:48 Managing the threat

33:52 How can individuals protect theirselves from the threats?

35:23 What about events, can they lead to cyber attacks?

37:53 Who will win hackers or organisations?

39:45 Ten Quick Fire Questions

Key Points:

- Security has to be an enabler

- An individual can be as destructive as a group

- You need talented staff to protect the business

- We can be in a better place by solving the simple issue.

You can find Thomas at:

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