On Identity Today, Bil Harmer, CISO and security operating partner for Craft Ventures, and Commercial Director at Daltrey Michael Warnock join host Blair Crawford to discuss the current cybersecurity threat environment, especially in the Healthcare industry. With the world still recovering from the pandemic, massive IT layoffs, and a confusing mix of policy and law around ransomware, they ask the question why hackers target such vulnerable industries.   “Hackers come after well, threat actors come after chaos, and we are just introducing more and more of it every week.”  CREDITS ..read more

Law & Order: Technology and its impact on the law  Lisa Fitzgerald, Partner at Lander & Rodgers, joins us to discuss the recent Federal Court ruling on cyber practices in financial services. We ask Lisa what it means for cybersecurity regulation, blockchain and digital assets. Lisa also explains her term “Splitchain”, and how it’s helping to strengthen the commercialisation of blockchain.   “Businesses have historically been complacent about cyber risk and cybersecurity. And I think over the past few years it's almost been a resignation about the inevitability of cyber-a ..read more

The Current Cybersecurity Landscape  Michael Warnock, our Commercial Director at Daltrey, joins us to discuss the current cybersecurity landscape. Michael shares his views on the current market, including the recent breaches of large enterprises that have occurred in recent weeks. Michael also shares his views on the current cyber-risk for government, including CNI, and finally how has the technology within the cyber world matured.   “The way businesses are operating are now highly digitalised, and without those modern robust cyber defences in place, the weak underbellies are really ..read more

The Hunger Games of biometric technology assessment   Peter Martis of Innovatrics joins Blair Crawford to discuss the contentious and highly debated topic of independent vendor testing, as well as sorting through the truth and myths when it comes to assessing biometric technology.”    “All these new start-ups that are heavily funded, they don’t really care about reputation because they don’t have any. So they are promising results and performance that is a) unachievable and b) unrealistic. CREDITS    Host: Blair Crawford, Co-founder and Managing Director, Daltrey    Gu ..read more

Convergence of physical and cyber security Richard McClellan, Director at Advancis Software joins us to discuss the security convergence of physical and cyber security. We cover how the security landscape is evolving by merging physical devices and cybersecurity and why this is important. He elaborates on the challenges of implementing these two elements when they have matured at different paces. Richard also discusses the importance for vendors to work collaboratively to ensure end-to-end data protection.      CREDITS        Host:  Blair Crawford, Co-founder ..read more

Social engineering: threat or secret weapon?  Alethe Denis, social engineer and Senior Consultant at Critical Insight, was awarded a Black Badge at DEF CON 27, the world’s largest hacking conference. She joins the podcast to chat about psychology, trust and human biases, what a successful social engineering campaign looks like, and why she thinks women (generally) make better social engineers.   “As a survival mechanism, humans desire to believe what they’re hearing is true because it makes their lives easier.”  Want to know more about Alethe Denis? Head to: https://linktr ..read more

Know your role: The business of biometrics  Chris Burt, Editor at the Biometrics Research Group Inc, joins us to discuss the now billion-dollar industry of biometrics. Chris calls on vendors to ‘know their role’ when communicating to ensure there’s transparency in messaging, and gives his predictions for the market for 2022 and beyond.  “When it comes to getting the message right, getting past some of these controversies, we need to be able to differentiate better between what's really happening and what's not. And so, there's going to have to be a real concerted effort, I think, fro ..read more

Biometrics in Healthcare   Simon Kos, Health Industry Advisor at Microsoft, joins Blair Crawford to discuss digital transformation in healthcare and the role digital identity can play in providing stronger authentication as it relates to patient care and data protection.   “It’s well recognised that health data is considerably more valuable than financial data alone, because rather than having a one-off emptying of a bank account, it leads to true identity theft." CREDITS    Host: Blair Crawford, Co-founder and Managing Director, Daltrey    Guest: Simon Kos, Heath ..read more

Securing The Modern Workplace / Enabling the Modern Workplace  Noel Allnutt, Co-founder and Managing Director at Solista, joins Blair Crawford to discuss the security concerns and user experience opportunities of the modern workplace. Plus, how your workplace technology can mean the difference between keeping or losing top talent.  “The smart organisations and the businesses which have got a rock-solid modern workplace practice, they’ve got that digital HQ, their workers are productive, their workers are happy. And it becomes a business enabler for good people to do their job well ..read more

Cybersecurity and Mental Health  Founder of CyberMindz, Peter Coroneos joins us to discuss protecting the mental health of cybersecurity professionals in today’s high threat environment. We delve into the alarming preliminary findings of his latest research and how the three core metrics of burnout: cynicism/depersonalisation, emotional depletion and most notably, professional efficacy are affecting IT workers. We focus on professional efficacy, discussing the implications of; ‘success is visible, and failure is highly invisible’ in the cybersecurity profession. Peter explains how CyberMi ..read more