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What would you describe as your
most memorable achievement in
the cybersecurity industry?
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What first made you think of a
career in cybersecurity?
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What style of management
philosophy do you employ with
your current position?
When I was young, I had this very
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simplistic view that McGregor’s The
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and Theory Y of managem
all it was about.
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has evolved and is driven by the
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current needs of the business in
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you can affo
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and freedom. In this industry, mos
nge,
management is about managing cha
which
can be very unsettling for
that
people at all levels; organisations
with
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can
and
become resilient
a high degree of change end up as
dominant forces in their industry.
What do you think is the current
hot cybersecurity talking point?
, as a
The talking points should be how
deal
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mal-actors are several step
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malw
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us in terms of deployin
attack soft ware.
They are much better at scaling their
loying
attacks, recruiting teams and dep
than
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soft ware ; they are
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most businesses. And I think that
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where businesses should be worr
up?
how on earth do we catch
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The fact we’re still having convers
how
and
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word
pass
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about com
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malware is affecting networks is quit
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