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The Cyber Skills Gap – The Challenge – Setting the Scene

The Gurus — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 09:25:03 +0000

Webinar: The Cyber Skills Gap – The Challenge – Setting the Scene
Date: 2^nd October 2017
Time: 11:00am
Duration: 75 minutes
Speakers include: Adrian Davis, Managing Director, EMEA at (ISC)²; Ian Glover, President at CREST; Quentyn Taylor, Director of Information Security at Canon for Europe; Warwick Ashford, Security Editor at Computer Weekly.
Throughout Security Serious Week this year, during the first week of October, it will be putting on webinars every day to tackle the theme of “Building Awareness and Bridging the Cyber-Skills Gap through Creativity and Diversity”.
The first Security Serious webinar session is The Cyber Skills Gap – The Challenge – Setting the Scene and will be based around the Global Workforce Study which shows the real numbers that expose the challenges facing UK companies in the wake of a global cyber-security shortfall.
With a predicted global shortage of two million cyber security professionals by 2019, and with research showing that the number of cyber security roles advertised in the UK being the third highest globally, the lack of skilled individuals in the industry will naturally leave organisations in the UK vulnerable to cyber attacks. Something drastic needs to be done.
Addressing this major issue, the panel of speakers will aim to answer: How can the UK become a haven for cyber-security and compete against the rest of the world for the best talent? What are the answers to building a viable, strong and competent cyber-security team? Is there enough being done to home-grow our own cyber-security workforce or will we need to talent from overseas and is that even possible with the challenges Brexit will bring?
If you are interested in this FREE webinar, please register here
About Security Serious
On the 2^nd October, Security Serious Week begins and for five days will bring together some of the world’s leading infosecurity experts and major corporations to help businesses take security more seriously.
Throughout the week, there will be a host of virtual conferences and webinars for people to educate themselves on both the leading issues within cybersecurity today and how to become more security savvy to benefit not only you but the organisation you work for.

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An Interview with 2016 Cloud Security Superhero Andrew Hardie

The Gurus — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 12:06:51 +0000

At last year’s Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards, Andrew Hardie, Chair of the BCS DevSecOps Group, was awarded the title of Cloud Security Superhero. I chased him up to see what his overview thoughts on the event were and ask why is it important to support and encourage people to take part.
What is the significance of the Unsung Heroes Awards for the cybersecurity community?
“It’s to recognize those who make those contributions that are below the surface, but still vitally important. It’s like infrastructure in IT – it’s unsung, often unnoticed, but it’s absolutely necessary. “
What did winning the award mean for you?
“I was very pleased. I felt our efforts to put security into DevOps, which has been largely ignored, did find an audience and did resonate with professionals in the DevOps world, who also realised and knew this needed addressing. “
What characteristics should Cloud Security Superhero Award have?
“They have to think of the stuff other people don’t think of. They also have to get past the hype of cloud and get to the core, business and functional needs of why you’re doing cloud and make sure this is done in a secure and reliable way. “
Why is it important to encourage people to get involved?
“Precisely that such unsung, but vital activities are recognized and rewarded. Infrastructure people are far too often ignored, it’s like this old adage about IT and public service: on tap but never on top. So, I think it’s excellent that these awards do recognize such activity that otherwise can get ignored or just forgotten, because when you are a site reliability engineer, that kind of infrastructure level, the only time your work is noticed is when something goes wrong.”
You can hear Andrew talk about the emergence of DevSecOps and why it is so crucial in the modern business here.

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Guest Post: Security Serious 2016 & The Unsung Heroes Awards

The Gurus — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 08:00:18 +0000

Eskenzi PR have once again decided to run Security Serious Week from 3^rd TO 7^th OCTOBER to encourage UK Plc to take security more seriously. The whole ethos of Security Serious Week is to garner the cyber-security community to give something back and encourage others to take security more seriously in the hope that together we can create a more secure environment to do business and ultimately act as an enabler to make UK PLC a safer place to trade online.
During the inaugural Security Serious Week last year, over 3000 people took advantage of the 45+ webinars and over 100 people came together for a photocall outside the Tower of London to show that they are “Security Serious”.
This year we are introducing two new events to run alongside the Week. The first is a Security Serious Conference; on the morning of 3rd October the second is the Unsung Heroes Awards on 6^th October.
The Conference will be held for free for 80 business influencers and end users at the prestigious Churchill Room at the Department of Culture, Media and at 100 Parliament Street. The theme of the conference will be around security awareness and run 3 key sessions:

Changing the Culture of UK Plc to “Think before you Click” – making security awareness sticky and fun – a number of CISOs will present on how they are managing to do this within their companies, including GSK, Canon UK, Publicis and The Economist
Top 3 things to make the board sit up and take security seriously – including the importance and changing role that GDPR will have on your business
Why you should you hire a hacker – with speakers such as Jennifer Radcliffe, a well known social engineering expert, Ian Glover head of CREST and Pete Wood, an ethical hacker.

If you would be keen to be a speaker or indeed attend, please email saul@itsecurityguru.com.
The Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards
These awards are taking place for the first time this year on October 6^thin Spitalfields to celebrate the people, not the products, who work tirelessly securing UK businesses, Government and the national critical infrastructure. These are the women and men who have on numerous occasions saved our bacon, from companies being brought to their knees by a breach or a continuity disaster. There will be no fees to enter the awards or indeed if nominees are shortlisted, they won’t have to pay to come to the awards night either. In order to make this financially viable, we have 10 sponsors paying to cover the costs of the event, including Mimecast, Acumin, AlienVault, Netskope, Lastline, whiteCryption, Imperva, CrowdStrike, Publicis Groupe, Varonis, Proofpoint and GSK.
The whole ethos of Security Serious Week is to garner the cyber-security community to give something back and encourage others to take security more seriously in the hope that together we can create a more secure environment to do business and ultimately act as an enabler to make UK PLC a safer place to trade online.
THE DEADLINE FOR THE UNSUNG HEROES AWARDS HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO FRIDAY 22^ND JULY SO IF YOU THINK YOU ARE DESERVING OF AN AWARD OR WOULD LIKE TO NOMINATE SOMEONE WHO IS please go to www.securityserious.com.

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Security Serious Week launches 2016 Unsung Heroes Awards

The Gurus — Fri, 06 May 2016 09:57:07 +0000

Eskenzi PR, the consultancy behind Security Serious Week has today announced a brand new awards scheme called the Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards which is now open for entries! Run for the first time in 2016, the awards are designed to recognise the people, not products, on the front lines of organisations who battle cyber threats, often saving the bacon of the companies they work for. The Unsung Heroes Awards will take place on Thursday 6^th October, during Security Serious Week – a week dedicated to events put on by cyber-security experts to encourage others in business to take cyber-security more seriously.
“The awards are designed to give the “unsung heroes” in IT security the recognition that they deserve for (often) going above and beyond the call of duty and saving their organisations from the likes of hackers, malware and virus infections,” said Yvonne Eskenzi, Director of Eskenzi PR. “After twenty years in the industry, we’ve noticed that awards in our sector tend to focus on technology, which is all well and good, but we also know that getting these technologies to work as they’re supposed to and getting the word out about cyber security threats is just as important – and that takes a person or team to make it happen successfully.”
Security Serious Week, runs from 3^rd October to 7^th October – and will have over 50 free webinars hosted by cyber-security experts to encourage others to become more security savvy. Last year over 2,500 people participated in the 45 free webinars and this year the organisers are hoping to exceed the number of webinars as well as organising a subsidised cyber-security conference on Monday 3^rd October at the Department of Culture, Media and Sports, finishing the week celebrating with all the great work that the cyber-security professionals have contributed to doing at the Unsung Heroes Awards.
These unique awards are free to enter and attend. The categories are now open for nominations until 1^st July 2016 and include:

CISO Supremo (sponsored by Varonis)
Godfather of Security (sponsored by GSK)
Security Avengers (sponsored by Lastline)
Best Security Awareness Campaign (sponsored by Publicis Groupe)
Social Media Saviour (sponsored by Proofpoint)
Mobile Mogul (sponsored by whiteCryption)
Security Leader (sponsored by Acumin)
Cloud Security Superhero (sponsored by Mimecast)
Fraud Fighter (sponsored by Imperva)
Game Changer (Sponsored by CrowdStrike)
Marathon (Wo)Man (sponsored by Eskenzi PR)
Spidey Sense (Sponsored by AlienVault)
Captain Compliance (Sponsored by NetSkope)

If you are interested in entering the Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards or participate in Security Serious Week please visit www.securityserious.com

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Getting to Grips with Cyber-Security

The Gurus — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:58:44 +0000

Presented by
Bob Tarzey, Analyst and Director, Quocirca Ltd
Watch HERE
The majority of organisations across Europe and UK now accept that targeted attacks are a serious problem. Quocirca’s presentation reviews recent research into the perception of cyber-threats, the impact they can have and the before, during and after measures organisations are putting in place to protect themselves against them. The presentation includes a preview of new research to be published in December 2015.
This webinar was hosted as part of Security Serious Week 2015 – to find out more about the campaign for cyber awareness in business, visit https://securityserious.com/ or follow them on twitter @SecSerious.

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The Advanced Persistent Threat: How to explain it to your family and what to do

The Gurus — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:32:42 +0000

“Advanced Persistent Threat” is a buzzword phrase in the industry, often used along with lots of promises to prevent it if you buy a product. But what is it really, and why is it so powerful? And how can you make sense of the bewildering array of products that all claim to prevent it? While we can’t promise to make it understandable for your extended family, we can look at it with less jargon and with that understanding briefly describe what is important to look for when you are trying to build your defences. Join Vallory Batchellor of IBM for this in-depth lesson in one of the most complex threats out there.
This webinar originally took place as part of Security Serious Week 2015. For more information and webinars like this one, visit their website: https://securityserious.com/
Want to hear more from Vallory? Follow her on Twitter: @ValBatchellor

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Protecting Your Sensitive Data Does Not Have to Impact Business Operations

The Gurus — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 10:55:17 +0000

The risks to sensitive data are everywhere, and your organisation is ultimately responsible for the security of customers’ personally identifiable information (PII). This means you must protect PII not only during transaction processing, but also through business processes such as charge-backs, loyalty or repeat payments, storage and analytics – including outsourced environments. Find out how you can protect PII throughout its life cycle from Andy Heather, VP EMEA at HPE Security – Data Security.
This webinar was originally hosted as part of the Security Serious campaign, a non-profit initiative to spread cybersecurity awareness in the UK business community. To find out more information about Security Serious, follow them on Twitter @SecSerious or click here to visit their website.
Watch it now: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/11399/174105

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Understanding 'Man in the Cloud' Attacks

The Gurus — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 11:59:19 +0000

Already widely adopted by enterprises, use of cloud file sharing services such as Office 365, OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and Google Drive is on the rise. As adoption increases, so does the motivation for attack. The Imperva Application Defense Center (ADC) recently announced new research on a new type of attack we call “Man in the Cloud” (MITC). These attacks rely on common file synchronization services as their infrastructure for command and control, data exfiltration and remote access. Without using any exploits, a bad actor can turn them into a devastating attack tool undetected by traditional security measures.
Join Imperva CTO Amichai Shulman and Frank Cabri, Vice President of Marketing for Imperva Skyfence, to learn about:
* Cloud file sharing application trends, adoption and risk
* The anatomy of a MITC attack and how to identify it
* How traditional endpoint and perimeter security measures are insufficient to protect against these threats
* Recommendations for securing and protecting cloud apps and data
https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/11399/179535
This webinar was originally hosted as part of Security Serious Week 2015 – find out more about the campaign at www.securityserious.com or via twitter @SecSerious

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The Next Generation of Incident Response

The Gurus — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 10:20:19 +0000

Join Ondrej Krehel of LIFARS LLC as we examine in detail the process of data breach response from the perspective of an elite IR team member. It will cover the steps taken to properly respond to a breach caused by a sophisticated hacker and go over some real-world case studies.
This webinar was hosted as part of Security Serious Week 2015 – find out more at www.securityserious.com.
https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/11399/175825

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Talking To The Board: How To Improve Your Board's Cyber Security Literacy

The Gurus — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:33:09 +0000

Boards of Directors have an inescapable legal responsibility to protect their organisation’s assets and shareholder value against risks. Where does cybersecurity fit in the agenda? Many boards lack the knowledge, awareness and confidence to connect security to the business.
In this webcast, moderator Paul Edon, Director of Customer Services at Tripwire, will provide a variety of perspectives from experienced professionals in the industry — including Amar Singh UK CISO for Elsevier, Ray Stanton EVP Professional Services at BT and Advisory Board Member of ISF, and Gary Cheetham, CISO at NFU Mutual.
View here: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/11399/179423
This webinar was hosted as part of the Security Serious campaign – find out more at www.securityserious.com

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