S2 Episode 1: The Future of Cyber Security with Nick Coleman from IBM

When the World Economic Forum decides that cybersecurity is one of the top global risks alongside climate change, extreme weather and natural disasters you know it's serious. Their recent report on the top global risks identified cyber threats as something that has the capacity to disrupt society on a massive scale.

This episode features Nick Coleman who at the time of recording was IBM’s Global Head of Cyber Security Risk where he specialised in evaluating risks from cyber adversaries, digital transformation and regulation. 

He has recently taken up the role of Chief Security Officer for Vocalink, a Mastercard company.

Before joining IBM he served as The UK Government’s National Reviewer of Security, and authored “The Coleman Report” for the UK Parliament. Nick holds an MBA with distinction, and is a Fellow and Chair of Digital at the Institution of Engineering & Technology.

He regularly advises boards around the world on digital leadership, and how to manage risk that results from traditional and emerging business models, and how to create trust and resilience.

We spoke about topics such as:

• Where are we at in 2020 with cybersecurity?
• The WEF has designated cyber as a global risk
• The average data breach takes 279 days to fix
• Spotting patterns to help detect attacks
• Do consumers care enough about cyber security?
• Should executives and the board be cyber aware?
• Getting business schools interested in cyber security
• How ready are you for a crisis?
• Running cyber fire drills
• Using AI to prevent attacks
• Hyperpersonalised attacks
• The employee as part of the 'last mile' of security
• Removing the friction from cybersecurity
• Cloud security and GDPR
• The 5 stages of responding to an attack
• Addressing the cybersecurity skills gap
• Cyber role models
• What can small companies do to get ready?
• Three things to do this week

1. Think about what is critical
2. Think about what "good" looks like
3. Who do you call when something bad happens?

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