Going After the Big Phish

A while ago I did a presentation for one of the CTG events on Executive Security and Close Protection Technology. It was good to be able to go in with a slightly different take on things, as I was approaching it as a basic awareness of how people carry out whaling and phishing, trying to target senior executives, and what awareness an exec security team might want or need to have to protect their principal from this sort of decidedly non-physical attack.

For various reasons I hadn’t got around to making this one available until recently, after having heard James Linton, the man who phished the White House as a prank, speak. It prodded my memory and so, in case it’s useful to anyone, here’s the presentation.

Why Work in Cyber Security? (Again)

Last year I gave a couple of presentations to some college students about why they really, really should look to work in cyber security, and how to get into it. That time’s rolled around again, and I realized I’d lost the original source document for the slides, so had to do a quick update from scratch. This is the result. 

Why Work in Cyber?

Occasionally I give presentations to students (and the general public) about different aspects of cyber security, including why to work in cyber. I thought sharing the presentations I build for these might be helpful. Source files and presentation notes can also be made available if requested.

This one’s targeted at 6th form students for an employability event, and is very much a personal view of why I think people are likely to be interested in a cyber security career (and why I would have been interested in it at the same age, had I known it was an option rather than looking at a Physics degree). After all, we need everyone we can get if anything’s going to improve.

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