Richard Harpur

InfoSecurity Europe a Must See in 2020?

It is that time of the year, we are back in the office, and people start to think about what conferences and technical sessions they feel would bring value to them in their current roles and careers. Last year I attended a few conference, and wanted to share some thoughts

Learning

Increasing your skills baseline in 2020 and advance the human race!

Where will your skills finish this year? As we enter the first full working week of 2020, it is very easy for the good intentions and visions we had on New Year’s day to evaporate amongst all the daily whirlwind tasks. In the last week we saw reports that

AzureAD

Configure NCSC Top Passwords List in Azure AD

Configure top breached passwords in Azure AD

Come on Microsoft, where's your community spirit

Make Password Protection available in P1 plans.

Cyberfailures.com

CyberFailures Report 2018 Q2

Embrace Failure: On May 25th 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation came into effect for all organizations globally who provide services (paid or unpaid) for users in Europe. It is a truly global shift in data protection laws. One aspect of the GDPR is mandatory notification of data breacheswhere these

Cyberfailures.com

Less Machine Learning and More Human Learning please

Learning from Cybersecurity Failures. Lesson Learned are not always learned in Cybersecurity incidents. You can learn now using Cyberfailures.com

Roadway to ISO27001 Certification

Here’s my strategy to help you get ISO Certified It’s been about 10 years since I first brought a technology team through the process of ISO27001 certification. I admit the first time I went through the certification process it was a learning curve for me, however the approach

Pluralsight

London Technology Leaders Summit

Key takeaways from Pluralsight's London Technology Summit. Read what challenges are facing technology leaders, and how they are approaching the skills shortage.

Pluralsight

New Pluralsight Course: Communicating and Documenting Security Incidents

InfoSecEurope

InfoSecurity Europe

InfoSecEurope 2018 - Was it worth going? I attended InfoSecEurope and BSidesLondon conferences this week. The InfoSec conference was in London’s Olympia Exhibition centre. I hadn’t been to it before as I had a rather selective view of conferences in general. In the end I was glad I

conference

Some conference are a waste of time...

Context why write this blog I lost confidence in conferences a long time back, and sort of gave up on them. Maybe it was around the time when I changed from being a full time developer to more management roles, and there was less tangible information to be gained from

Ransomware

New Pluralsight Course - Cybersecurity Threats: Ransomware

Okay, I admit I have been very absent on this blog for several months, but I will explain what I have been working on here in this blog article, all is revealed! Pluralsight has just published my latest training course, Cybersecurity Threats: Ransomware. It has been truly fascinating working on

Stop playing kiddie football and focus on the basics

Learn from others' incidents: On June 1st Microsoft published an analysis of the Hacking Team Breach in their Cyber Trust Blog. It’s a really good read, which you can find here, for anyone who wants to learn some lessons on defending their network. Recently I published by first Pluralsight

Cybersecurity

Time to disrupt, start by talking..

A lot of things have come together recently. While it may be reasonably quiet on the Cybersecurity news front, it is a good time to reflect on the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of our industry. If you step back and look, you can see that we need to look at

Why securing personal data is optional, and needs to be licenced?

You are forgiven if you think no one really cares about protecting your personal data. No one is worrying too much or losing sleep. Breaches will just happen more frequently, so get over it and get used to it. However your payment card data will be safe so you can