It's Cyber Up North (CyberNorth)

In this episode, Phil Jackman from CyberNorth talks with Callum Duncan, Managing Director of Sencode, provider of Penetration Testing And Cyber Security Services, based in Middlesbrough. Duncan's interests cover, among many other things, gaming developments around Open Source Large Language models and the use of "Agents". What are they, how is this affecting the world of gaming and what are the cyber security implications?

You can find out more about Duncan at https://www.linkedin.com/in/callum-duncan-/

And Sencode at:

https://sencode.co.uk/

In this episode, Danielle Phillips from CyberNorth is joined by two other team members, Thea Scott and Phil Jackman to talk about some of the exciting plans for 2024.

Access the Australian Cyber Security Strategy.

Find out more about the initiatives and events mentioned at www.cybernorth.biz

Fintech and Cyber Security go hand in hand, in this week's episode Phil Jackman and Kimberley Hendry talk to Wayne Bryant from Dynamo North East and the North of Tyne Combined Authority and James Thwaites from Whitecap Consulting about the symbiotic relationship of Cyber Security and Fintech and how the North East is playing a huge part in its development.

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In a hyperconnected world where everything from your toaster to your TV is connected to the Internet, are we sleeping with the enemy or are we safe in allowing everything to be connected to everything else? What safeguards are manufacturers implementing if any and do we really know how to implement them safely?

In this week's episode Phil Jackman and Andrew Pounder of Cyber North talk to Ian Todd of SalesLynk about the risks and benefits of this ubiquitous "Internet of Things".

International women's day is 8 March yet diversity in the cyber sector is an every day issue. With only 17% of the workforce identifying as female, what more can be done?

In this episode, Danielle Phillips talks to Debra Cairns, Net-Defence, Clare Johnson, Women in Cyber Wales and Tony Smith, Northumbrain Water Group about their experiences and thoughts

The increasing availability and use of Lo-Code and No-Code drag and drop application development brings with it a new set of risks and responsibilities. In this week's episode Phil Jackman and Andrew Pounder of Cyber North talk with Adam Hill of Sunderland Software City about what this means to cyber security development and the skills base within the North East.

In the first episode of 2025, Danielle Phillips and Phil Jackman explore some to the exciting things that are happening in CyberNorth. Find out more at www.cybernorth.biz

Her next job could be in Cyber. In this week's episode Phil Jackman talks to Danielle Philips from Inside Out Consulting about the development of the Cyber Security skills base in the north East and the opportunities for business to develop and share their own expertise as well as education and apprenticeships within the sector. 

Happy New Year; Phil and Kymberly introduce the plans for the forthcoming year of podcasts and events from CyberNorth. Please don't forget to subscribe wherever you get your audio so you don't miss any episodes.

CyberNorth's Phil Jackman and Kimberly Hendry talk to Mads Howard from SAGE about the Empower initiatives and events focussed on getting  young women and girls into STEM and IT Cyber Security.

Tick-Tock it's only a matter of time. This week Phil and Kimberly talk with Scott Wakeling about the recent events in the news regarding ransomware and CyberSecurity events affecting the critical national infrastructure, the ubiquitous vulnerabilities that are at many people's front door and the worries around the global use of TikTok one of the most popular social media apps in the world and what it might mean for politicians and civil servants.

Held for Ransom. In this week's episode Phil and Kimberly discuss some of the high profile ransom ware and data breach incidents affecting industry and commerce; including WH Smith and The Post Office, with Iqra Haq from Celerity. 

Note: Apologies to listeners, due to some technical difficulties the video version of this episode is not available.

In this episode, Phil Jackman from CyberNorth is joined by Jorge Aguilera

• Managed Security Services and cyber security
• How the way organisations consume technology is changing
• How AI is impacting the cybersecurity landscape
• How AI is affecting IT Managed Security Services?

Find out more about the initiatives and events mentioned at ⁠www.cybernorth.biz

Is cyber insurance the same as any other insurance? What sort of cover can you get? Should all businesses have cyber insurance?

In this episode, Phil Jackman from CyberNorth talks about these and other cyber insurance issues with John Baty from Cheviot Insured and Kimberley Graham from Sage.

Reference to GitHub is made during the podcast.

You can find out more about CyberNorth at wwww.cybernorth.biz

CyberNorth catches up with Aidan from Aspire Technology Solutions, one of the region's leading cyber businesses.

Everyday, and I mean everyday, Aidan publishes his Cyber Daily newsletter on LinkedIn. At the time of writing he is on edition number 168, an amazing achievement.

The Cyber Daily is a fantastic source of information and updates, that show the enormous breadth of topics that make up the exciting, global industry that is cyber security.

You can sign up for Cyber Daily or catch up with Aidan on his LinkedIn site: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aidandickenson-cybersecurity-solutions-expert/

This episode was recorded at the recent Women into Cyber event at Gateshead College before a live audience. Danielle Phillips talks to Annabel Berry, head of The Ladies Hacking Society and recently appointed Chair of Cyber North with a short Q&A session with the audince.

NCSC Sanction Ransomware Actors as threat levels rise internationally; Phil and Kimberly discuss with Stuart Smiles the latest ransomware issues affecting The Post Office and others as the National Cyber Security Centre sanctions the major threat actors and ransomware as a service providers.

*"All your base are belong to us" is an Internet meme based on a badly translated phrase from the opening cutscene of the video game Zero Wing. 

Full Wikipedia article

NCSC:– Ransomware actors sanctioned

Press release:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-cracks-down-on-ransomware-actors

Reporting:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/where-to-report-a-cyber-incident

Who to report ransoms to:

https://signpost-cyber-incident.service.gov.uk/signposting/y/Business/Yes/England/No/No/No/Yes/Yes/Yes/Yes/DontKnow

Incident responders:

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/section/products-services/verify-suppliers?scheme=Cyber+Incident+Response+%28CIR%29  [ Tier 1 list ]

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/cir-cyber-incident-response

Sanctions:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-cyber-sanctions

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1135587/Ransomware___Sanctions_guidance__Feb_2023_.pdf

In this week's episode Phil Jackman and Kimberly Hendry chat with Kathryn Cardose from the North East Ladies Hacking Society about some of the current cyber security issues in the news including the leaks of security intel by the the American Air National Guard Intelligence Unit's Jack Teixeira as well as more mundane issues like phishing, passwords and 2FA, still affecting organisations at home here in the UK.

Neurodivergence in Cyber Security: Diversity in the workplace means more than gender or cultural issues and increasingly the information space needs a broader range of diversity in the workplace to not just represent and reflect society but in order to approach ever more complex problems especially in AI and Cyber Security.

This week's guests are Adam Pickering, Director - Cyber Security, CGI; Yvonne Charrot, Diversity Inclusion and Wellbeing Manager, the IASME Consortium and Jonathan Ellwood, Head of Assure Schemes, Visiting Fellow University of Gloucestershire.

Is this the last chance saloon for Password Managers? In this week's episode Phil Jackman and Kimberley Hendry talk to Andi Pannell about password managers and the implications of the LastPass data leak as well as making some scary predictions for trends in risks for the forthcoming year in Cyber Security.

Northumbrian Water’s Innovation Festival

This week Phil and Danielle talks to guests Anthony Smith from Northumbrian Water, Wayne Bryant from the Super Network and Ashmita Randhawa from Sunderland Software City about the forthcoming Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival.

This year's festival is 10-13th July 2023 at its usual venue of Newcastle Racecourse and this year’s theme – CITIZENS – has been chosen with our community spirit and people at the absolute heart of it.

#CyberFest 2023

CyberNorth's own festival is this year sponsored by Aspire Technology Solutions. The main event will be held at St.James' Park home of Newcastle United FC. on the 26th September 2023. Tickets and further detail of the festival can be found on the CyberNorth website.

In this episode find out how CyberNorth is working with its colleagues ScotlandIS in supporting the development of a best practice charter to help IT Managed Service Providers (MSPs) deliver and maintain consistent standards of service across the industry.

Phil is joined by Beverley Bowles from ScotlandIS who is leading on the initiative and Debra Cairns from Net-Defence which has business both in the North East and Scotland, and who is a supporter of and signatory to the charter.

Yiu can find out more about the charter at our website.

In this episode, Thea from CyberNorth meets with Nicola Taylor from ScotlandIS to talk about its work on nurturing future talent in cyber security and, in particular its focus on the Experience Gap.

Find out more about ScotlandIS

October is CyberFest - book your tickets now!

CyberNorth's annual jamboree of all things cyber related is almost upon us. In this weeks episode Phil Jackman and Danielle Philips discuss the upcoming CyberFest with Igor Kotsiuba from Durham University Business School and Stuart Hogg from Waterstons.

Full details of all the events are on the CyberNorth website

In this episode Danielle Phillips leads the discussion with Matt Hewison from CyberWhite and Phil Jackman. Matt talks to us about the Cyber Intelligence Alliance and the role it plays in the amazing North East cyber sector.

You can find out more about the work of CyberNorth, including upcoming events at www.cybernorth.biz

In this week's episode Phil Jackman and Andrew Pounder of Cyber North talk to Nick Kelsey of Cyber First North East and Janine Marshall of RTC North about Cyber First and some of the very best industry and education engagement programmes here in the North East.

Human risk in cyber security is significant with the majority of successful attacks having some human element. We've all been there with fingers poised over the keyboard to click on that dodgy link or enter personal details that you know you shouldn't.

In this episode we speak to Kimberley Graham and Kaye Johnson from Sage about the role of Security Champions in their organisation and how this approach could be adopted by others.

We also come back to a favourite topic of innovation and how Security Champions can play a pivotal role in better innovation.

Kaye is also a passionate STEM ambassador, another topic touched upon.