Wednesday 31st July saw the first large-scale collaborative event between the (ISC)2 London Chapter, ISSA-UK and the Cloud Security Alliance [CSA], in which AON sponsored the event and provided the venue at their premises at Leadenhall. The theme of the day was Industry Challenges: Keys to the Future and it was a full house with all seats being taken up. Over 200 like-minded cybersecurity professionals and interested persons came to hear a variety of speakers followed up by a panel of SME’s who answered a range of questions directed to them by the audience!
Continue reading “Security Industry Challenges – Keys to the Future Event”Cyber Strategy for the UK Workshop
The Royal United Service Institute [RUSI] in collaboration with the National Cyber Security Centre [NCSC] held its annual workshop at their Whitehall premises to discuss the future of Cyber Strategy for the UK.
This year two workshops took place on the 25th June and 12th July, to which ICS2 London Chapter Secretary Liz Banbury was invited, along with 39 other individuals from a variety of sectors: The UK Government defence department; NCSC; Department for Digital; Culture, Media and Sport [DCMS] and Cyber Security Professionals for Academia, Public and Private sector organisations.
Key Questions are asked in each workshop to address both how the UK can better respond to National Cyber Incidents and around how what the UK can do to ensure that it is taking a stronger lead-in Cyber Security on the Global playing field.
Continue reading “Cyber Strategy for the UK Workshop”(ISC)2 London Chapter Member Meeting – 19th June
19th June, the London Chapter hosted their 2nd member meeting of the year at the now well know venue of WeWorks @ Moorgate, courtesy of DeepSecure and was extremely well attended with the occupation at full capacity!
Continue reading “(ISC)2 London Chapter Member Meeting – 19th June”PeepSEC Online Summit
PeepSec is the world’s first and only 100% free, 100% online summit focused on the opportunities and issues born from the interactions between people and technology – issues such as cyber security, trust, social impact, privacy, innovation and ethics.
As part of the unique event James Packer [ICS2 London Chapter President] and Liz Banbury [ISC2 London Chapter Secretary] were invited, along with 23 others from organisations such as Standard Chartered, TechUK, the Bank of England and the NCSC to share their insights on how Technology is changing and with specific emphasis on the impact it has on People.
Continue reading “PeepSEC Online Summit”ISC2 Summit EMEA 2019
April the 15th and 16th saw the (ISC)2 Secure Summit EMEA arrive at The Hague in the Netherlands. Hosted in the fabulous World Forum venue, shrouded in history and culture and next door to Europol and EuroJust; over 400 delegates attended from across the EMEA region.
Across the two days, speakers covered topics ranging from the reason to be optimistic in security, through to automating incident response. High energy workshops discussed the future of security, an insight into the cyber operations of the London Police and even, a trip to the South Pole!
Continue reading “ISC2 Summit EMEA 2019”(ISC)² London Chapter Member Meeting – 27th March
The first members meeting of 2019 kicked off on Wednesday 27th March at the amazing venue of One London Bridge with as packed an agenda as ever and an enthusiastic over-subscribed sign-up well before the actual date!.
After welcoming our visitors with some drinks the (ISC)² London Chapter Secretary Liz Banbury provided a brief overview of the Chapter updates, most notably being the progress around the Education initiative. This is one of our key initiatives which in parallel looks at building partnerships and alliances with London-based communities with a focus on educating people against scams and cyberbullying and reaching out to Universities who we could work with to strengthen and develop our profession by encouraging people to join us as a profession.
Continue reading “(ISC)² London Chapter Member Meeting – 27th March”The UK Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge
This year the 2nd UK Cyber Challenge took place on 11th February at the BT Tower and is the cyber security policy and strategy competition for the UK!
The Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge is an initiative by the Atlantic Council, a Washington DC-based think tank which promotes leadership and engagement in international affairs. Continue reading “The UK Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge”
(ISC)² London Chapter Member Meeting – 28th November
The final members meeting of 2018 took place on Wednesday 28th November and proved to be a great end to the Chapter’s first year in operation. Membership has progressively grown month on month and this event was fully booked!
Members were treated to two presentations, the first from Nick Coombs who presented research results on vulnerabilities in opensource code and why the size of the challenge requires focus on CI/CD automation and the second from Yiannis Pavlosoglou (co-chair of the ISC2 EMEA Advisory Council) who provided an update on (ISC)2 as a whole and their increased focus on supporting the Chapter. Continue reading “(ISC)² London Chapter Member Meeting – 28th November”
(ISC)2 London Chapter Q4 2018 Meeting
Dear Community Members,
The (ISC)2 London Chapter team cordially invite you to attend our Q4 Chapter members meeting. This meeting is also open to non-members interested in the field of information security. Continue reading “(ISC)2 London Chapter Q4 2018 Meeting”
(ISC)² London Chapter Member Meeting – 27th September
This was the third members event of the year and took place in the large open premises of 62 Buckinham Gate complete with pool tables!
This was the first event after the (ISC)² Security Summit and we were delighted to see several new members who we had only just met at the summit the previous week! Continue reading “(ISC)² London Chapter Member Meeting – 27th September”