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Your cyber security and resilience questions answered!

Level Up your Cyber Resilience

EPISODE 2

In the second of our weekly series, APMG welcomes a panel of experts whose lives have been shaped by millions of us radically changing how we work in the last 18 months. Making sure your family, team and organisation remain safe online is now all of our responsibilities.  When we work from home, we are the front line of our own cyber resilience.

REAL QUESTIONS ANSWERED IN REAL TIME

Join the panel on this show and ask all the questions you have relating to cyber and get help in figuring out how best to overcome the challenges. Example questions could include:

  • How do I best protect my privacy?
  • Why should I use a Virtual Private Network (VPN?)
  • My organisation's security policy drives me mad, what is the best practice to follow?
  • What’s the most challenging situation the panel has faced and how did you overcome it?
  • What is the panel's top tips for improving cyber resilience in an SME?
  • I’m interested in specialising in Cyber, what career options are available?

Register now to submit your questions and take part. You will also be able to vote on all questions submitted; the more votes a question has, the higher up the agenda it will go.

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Level Up is perfect for you to ask the real questions you have in a safe, supportive and professional environment. Whether you are looking for career advice, or some top tips on how to approach a tricky situation, we are here to help.

Level Up your Cyber Resilience

Panelists

Mark Johnson

External Faculty and Course Developer, City of London Police Economic Crime Academy

London, UK

Mark is a Chartered IT Professional (CITP) and a Toddington-trained Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) practitioner, trainer, and social pen tester. Mark is currently contracted as an eLearning developer and classroom trainer designing and delivering cybercrime, cryptocurrency and cyber-fraud training for the City of London Police, and OSINT training for the UK Home Office.

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Richard Preece

Director, DA Resilience Ltd

London,UK

Richard is an experienced leader working at the intersection of strategy, governance, risk and capability development (people, process, data and technology). His focus is upon joining the dots, to transform organizational agility and resilience.

He achieves this through a multidisciplinary collaborative, discovery driven and integrated decision-making approach that cuts through complexity, to achieve innovation, outcomes and objectives.

This is based upon over 30 years of experience developed initially in the British Army, then over 9 years working across multiple sectors in the UK and internationally.

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Nicola Cooper

Information Security & Resilience Manager, Virgin Money

Glasgow, UK

An Information Security & Resilience Manager for Virgin Money managing a team of security consultants who provide expertise and guidance to change initiatives across the Bank ensuring security controls are delivered in line with business risk appetite in relation to 3rd party supplier risk, as well as technology solutions.

Nicola's proudest achievement: Setting up a Scottish Chapter of the Ladies of London Hacking Society started by Eliza-May Austin (Ladies of Glasgow Hacking Society) with one of my fantastic peers Emily Beeney. The LGHS is a social enterprise providing offensive & defensive technical security development for women interested in Cyber.

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Rick Lemieux

Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, itSM Solutions LLC

Rhode Island, United States

Rick Lemieux is a Founding Member and Chief Product Officer (CPO) and is responsible for his company’s NIST Cybersecurity Professional (NCSP®) accredited and award-winning certification training program.

As CPO, Lemieux is responsible for the strategic product direction which includes product vision, product innovation, product design, product development, project management, product marketing and strategic partnerships.

Rick is a certified IT professional and was recently identified as one of the top 5 entrepreneurs in the State of Rhode Island by the TECH 10 awards for his work in developing innovative workforce development solutions for Enterprises and Cybersecurity Risk Management Professionals.

Rick’s proudest achievement: Besides raising my 12 Children, my proudest achievement was the co-creation of itSM’s NIST Cybersecurity Professional (NCSP®) certification training program as it teaches organizations and governments how to Create, Protect and Deliver digital business value which in turn will enable them to survive and thrive in the digital business world.

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Martin Smith

Managing Director, Cyber Prism

Aberdeen, UK

During a 33-year military career, Martin worked extensively in maritime security and information superiority. He led Britain’s maritime counter-terrorism force, modernised the Royal Marines’ information and intelligence capability, commanded multi-national counter-piracy operations and was responsible for Britain’s amphibious force. He spent three periods in Afghanistan in addition to several other deployments around the World. He commanded service personnel at every rank and left the Armed Forces in January 2018 having led the nation’s 7,000 Royal Marines as their Commandant General.

Martin became MD of Cyber Prism in December 2019, introducing SaaS products and services which help companies come to grips with the security of their operational technology.

Martin's proudest achievement: Adopting two children who desperately needed a permanent home and who are now forging very different lives from those which they would otherwise have lived.

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Tim Harwood

CEO, Siker Cyber

Brackley, UK

Tim Harwood is a veteran of the security world and has been providing information security guidance and expertise to corporate clients, the UK Government and the UK military for over 40 years. As CEO of Siker Limited, he provides direction for the company which he founded in 2013.

Tim’s professional background includes security capability strategy planning and development, information security capability framework design and implementation and security awareness strategy design and implementation. He has developed a security professional development framework for a global top ten oil and gas company, delivers training as a member of the SANS and QA faculties and, as a thought leader, regularly presents at summits and conferences.

Tim is a Full member of the Chartered Institute of Information Security (MCIIS), a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI) and is the holder of the GIAC Security Leadership Certification (GSLC).

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