Cyber Security In Focus

Most organisations think about cybersecurity in terms of tools and compliance. Attackers think in objectives, timelines, and human behaviour. That gap is exactly where breaches happen. In this episode, Katie speaks with Glenn Wilkinson, CEO of Agger Labs and ethical hacker with 15 years of experience breaking into organisations, legally. Glenn has tested financial institutions, trained law enforce...

Managing third-party risk has always been complex. Add AI into the supply chain, and the rules change entirely. In this episode, Katie Watson sits down with Chris Thornberry, Information Security Manager and DPO at Oleeo, an HR Tech SaaS platform serving major UK public sector organisations and global financial services institutions. With over six years navigating security at the intersection of G...

When a cyber attack hits, most organisations focus on what technology failed. Keith Price focuses on whether the people were ready. As Director of Security at National Highways, Keith leads security for one of the UK's most critical infrastructure operators. Shutting down the motorway network during a cyber attack is not an option, which means resilience has to be built long before an incident occ...

Security awareness has spent years stuck in the same loop, annual training, phishing simulations, completion rates. Budgets are tight, compliance is the priority, and the dial on actual human behaviour barely moves. Lucy Finlay has spent nearly a decade in the security awareness space, and her argument is simple: the industry has been treating people like machines you can update with a policy and...

Stuart Bird has spent nearly four decades dealing with the worst moments organisations, and people, will ever face. Twenty-one years in UK law enforcement, including early high-tech crime work triggered by Operation ORE, gave him an investigative foundation that most in the industry simply don't have. Since moving into the private sector, he's managed over 1,000 cyber incidents globally, from rans...

What do biological threat response, GB triathlon racing, and cyber incident management have in common? More than you'd think. In this episode, Katie sits down with Jeremy Clipstone, ICT Manager at Suffolk Coastal Port Health Authority, the UK's largest container port. Jeremey spent 22 years in the Royal Air Force Regiment, including leading specialist teams dealing with chemical, biological, and r...

Emma Mackenzie made a deliberate switch into cyber security, and went straight into governance and risk. Since then she's moved across into a cyber defence role, and that experience of working both sides of the house gives her a perspective most people in the industry don't have. Emma works in financial services, specialising in governance, risk, resilience and regulatory alignment. In this episod...

58% of crime in England and Wales is now cyber-enabled. Yet when individuals are targeted, most don't know where to turn. The police are overstretched, social media platforms don't pick up the phone, and the support just isn't there. In this episode, Katie Watson sits down with Rory Innes, Founder and CEO of The Cyber Helpline, a charity built by the cybersecurity community to provide free, expert...

Is Your AI Tool Sharing Your Secrets? With over 20 years in infrastructure, security, and cloud consulting across the US, Europe, and beyond, John Boero has seen what happens when teams move fast and skip the fundamentals. In this episode, John and Katie get into the real risks of vibe coding, why the lost art of code review is coming back to bite development teams, and what security leaders actua...

For the first episode of Cyber Security In Focus, host Katie Watson sits down with Esther Hitch, former British Army officer, Deloitte alumna, and cyber security advisor to boards and executives across the public and private sectors. They get straight into one of the most persistent problems in the industry: why cyber security still struggles to land at board level, and what needs to change on bot...

Cyber Security in Focus brings you candid conversations with the people in the trenches: CISOs, security leaders, and practitioners sharing what they’ve learned, what they’d do differently, and how they build stronger defences in the real world.