Thomas Fischer - Organisations vs Hackers, Threats & Phishing

Thomas has more than 25 years of experience, he has a unique view on enterprise security with experience across multiple domains from policy and risk management, secure development and enterprise incident response and forensics. Thomas has held roles varying from a security architect for a large fortune 500 company to consultant for both industry vendors and consulting organizations. He is an active participant in the InfoSec Community including being a director of Security BSides London. Key Minutes: 2:35 Meeting Cyber Security for the first time 3:57 What is cyber security to you? 5:55 Individuals leading to the biggest threat 9:15 The most common threats 11:55 Will the threats go away? 13:00 How can we keep moving forwards to protect ourselves? 14:55 What is the main objective of any attack? 16:40 The more innovation is leaving us open to risk 20:15 How do we make the business aware of the risk? 24:00 What changes if you are communicating threats to the business? 27:07 Finding vulnerabilities in the business 28:14 What tools can be used to support this? 31:48 Managing the threat 33:52 How can individuals protect theirselves from the threats? 35:23 What about events, can they lead to cyber attacks? 37:53 Who will win hackers or organisations? 39:45 Ten Quick Fire Questions Key Points: - Security has to be an enabler - An individual can be as destructive as a group - You need talented staff to protect the business - We can be in a better place by solving the simple issue. You can find Thomas at: Twitter: @fvt Follow us: Twitter: @zero_hourpod Instagram: @zerohourexperience Website: www.karlsharman.com This podcast is sponsored by: BeecherMadden - www.beechermadden.com Cyber Security Professionals - www.cybersecurity-professionals.com