Cyber Security & Cloud Podcast

CSCP S03EP24 - Ollie Whitehouse - Vulnerabilities - SBOM and the evolution of the Cyber ned

Mar 6, 2023

46:00

Ollie Whitehouse is the founder BinaryFirefly a boutique British cyber advisory firm with a career spanning over 25 years in applied cyber attack and defence. Ollie's portfolio of advisory positions today includes science advisory positions for UK Government as a member of the Science Advisory Councils for the Home Office and Police, Industry 100 within the National Cyber Security Centre and various Non-Executive Directorships. His operational tenures include over ten and half years at NCC Group where he was Group CTO until the end of 2022, BlackBerry and Symantec. Ollie has given oral evidence to the UK Parliament Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy twice in 2017 and 2022 on matters related to cyber security.

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2:00 - Career and dot com

3:00 - Pen-testing and philosophy

5:00 - Business and Cybersecurity and role of the cyber NED

9:00 - CISO

10:00 - Executive understanding

12:00 - Cybersecurity technicalities - Pen tests and regulation

16:00 - Cybersecurity and regulation in the USA

19:00 - SBOM, Digital Software supply chain

22:00 - Regulators, Board and how they think

26:00 - Assets, different opinions based on generation

30:00 - Non exec hands-on startups vs later stage

35:00 - policy and frameworks, and assessing, quantifying the net value of a control