65. What to look for in the best Cyber Security training

Melanie is an entrepreneur who first founded Bob’s Business, a cyber security awareness training company, in 2008; since then, she has become one of the leaders in the industry.

Melanie is the catalyst behind several community-driven projects, directing UKC3 and founding the Yorkshire Cyber Security Cluster - non-profit organisations. Her tireless work for the industry and others earned her a 2022 New Years honours for services to Business and Cybersecurity.

● CEO of CyberEd Tech Company Bob’s Business

● Non-Executive Director, Industry Advisor

● i100 Cluster lead and passionate speaker on the human side of CyberSecurity

● Executive in residence of Sheffield Hallam University

● Fellowship of CIISec

● Founder and Director of YCSC

● Director of UKC3

An entrepreneur and technology professional, with over 15 years’ in the cyber security industry, Zain is co-founder and CTO of Mitigate Cyber Limited. Zain is also a board member of the Northwest Cyber Security Cluster, representing Lancashire.

With years of experience in training, management and creating cyber security strategies for organisations worldwide, Zain is the team leader of experts to conduct red team, social engineering, ethical hacking, penetration testing and vulnerability assessments.

As NCSC Certified Trainer, Zain has delivered powerful and engaging presentations at various public speaking events, conferences, round tables and expert panels.

Zain was nominated for The Innovation in Cyber Award 2021.

Proudest achievements?

• Co-founding the Lancashire Cyber Alliance with Lancaster University and Digital Skills Partnership Lancashire. Giving back and providing a voice for our region.
• Providing series of Board level cyber security training to the world’s leading global financial markets infrastructure and data group.

With 15+ years in senior operational security roles, Richard is a cyber expert with experience in the tech, defence, and financial service industries, and government.  Member of, and advisor to, industry and government cyber security bodies. Richard works with customers to build effective and successful learning solutions tailored for business needs, helping to solve business problems.

Richard designed and architected the ‘award winning’ UK NPCC National Cybercrime Programme.

Richard's career highlights include working to secure the UK’s first nationwide digital transformation across UK Air Defence infrastructure. Led multiple large scale critical national infrastructure (CNI) security programmes, including the design and delivery of the UK north smart metering solution. Designed and architected multiple cyber learning solutions for QA clients.

An ex-professional hacker, James is the founder of human risk intelligence platform CultureAI. James has over a decade experience in the cyber security industry and previously built simulated phishing & awareness provider Phishd.

Specialising in human cyber risk, security culture and awareness, James has worked with a vast range of Global, FTSE 100, government and SME organisations to help them measure and improve their employees’ cyber security behaviours.

• CEO & founder of Human Risk Intelligence Platform CultureAI
• Previously founded simulated phishing & awareness training platform, Phishd
• Cyber security awareness, behaviour and culture thought-leader, speaker and NCSC Certified Trainer
• Ex professional hacker, CHECK Team leader and red-teamer
• Responsible for designing and implementing high performance security behaviour change programmes in a wide range of world leading organisations.

Ramiah has experience and expertise in the domains of Consulting, Design, Development Implementation, Operations, Risk Assessment, Compliance and Audit for Cyber Security, Privacy, Business Continuity and Cloud. He is a subject matter expert representing Singapore in the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 committee.

Ramiah has executed engagements across sectors which includes: Financial Institution, Government Agencies, Manufacturing, Retail, Academic Institutions, Telecom, Commercial and Aviation. Ramiah is also well versed in international standards including Cloud Control Matrix (CCM), ISO27001:2013, GovTech Instruction Manual 8 (IM8), Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Information Technology Risk Management (ITRM), Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) guidelines, NIST, HIPAA, GLBA, PCI DSS, GDPR, PDPA, Cyber Security Act, Computer Misuse Act, COBIT and SOX.