27 May 2018 ISACA Leadership Conference - working together with other professional organisations 10 May 2018 41 Club - security awareness presentation 27 April 2018 Co-Hosted our second B-Sides Scotland. This year in Glasgow. It was Pure Dead Brilliant! 1 March 2018 Moved from RBS to take up the position of Head of Technology & Cyber Risk for HSBC 9 December 2017 Christmas Lecture series for Scottish Schools - careers in Cyber security, or, I always wanted to be a rock star, so what went so wrong? 1 December 2017 Presentation to the Risk Minds conference in Amsterdam 29 November 2017 Building Effective Security Teams - presentation to Heads of Security from countries across Europe and beyond. 20 November 2017 Napier University - infosec careers in the private sector 26 July 2017 CSX Training - introduction 26 April 2017 Co-Founded B-Sides Scotland, with our inaugural event in Edinburgh. A very successful mix of senior security management, technical teams and students. 15 January 2017 ISACA - Security in Project and Programme Management 16 September 2016 ISF - Managing Security in a Regulated Environment 23 February 2016 Technology Risk Management within Cyberspace 1 March 2013 Took on a longer term role as Head of Information Security Risk Oversight for RBS, creating a team within Operational Risk specifically focused on Information- and Cyber Security. 6 March 2012 COSLA - Data Security in the Cyber World 15 February 2012 CIIA - Technology as a business enabler - Understanding the risks 12 July 2011
Security Stack Exchange graduated from beta today! As co-moderator I'm very proud. As a community we have collected some experienced individuals who are helping to pass on their wealth of knowledge to others. 1 July - 3 July 2011 As part of team 8485 80085 I took part in the 2011 Whitehat Rally, raising money for Childline. We won - raising the most money as a team! See my Security Stack Exchange blog post on it here. We still want to raise more, so sponsor us through VirginMoneyGiving!
8 June - 10 June 2011
Attended AppSecEU in Dublin - an excellent opportunity to network, learn, teach and contribute to the security community.
20 June 2011 Presented at the Scotland & Northern Ireland Centre for Security and Cybercrime Symposium at Edinburgh's Napier University on 20th June 2011 Publications: 2018 ACCA - Disruptive technology 2018 Computer Weekly - Attacker Dwell Time implications 2018 Computer Weekly - Automation 2018 Computer Weekly - Messaging App Security 2007 Financial Times - Home working |