Phishy Business

On this week’s Phishy Business, we’re joined by Bruce McCully, Chief Security Officer at Galactic Advisors, cyber security consultancy, and author of multiple books. We discuss the importance of story-telling in cyber security, why MSPs (Managed Service Providers) have a target on their backs when it comes to ransomware, the vital importance of having properly set up back-ups in place and how Bruc...

In this special episode, we speak to Rory Innes, founder of the cyber helpline, as well as Shane McCombs and Samantha Gamble from the Innocent Lives Foundation. We speak to them about the lack of support and understanding of online crime and how their organisations support victims and law enforcement services who are often not equipped to deal with cybercrimes. In the second part of the podcast, w...

Welcome to Season Two! To kick us off in style, we’re speaking to Bryan Hurd, the founder of the US navy Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Cyber Counterintelligence program and currently vice president at insurance company Stroz Friedberg, part of AON. We cover everything from terrorism, the ransomware threat, cyber insurance, crisis management as well as UFOs – for good measure. In this...

We’ve reached the end of season 1 of our podcast Phishy Business. Listen to this compilation of funny and interesting stories from our guests throughout the season. We’re featuring some of our most interesting guest, like: Jenny Radcliffe , the people hacker Geoff White , BBC investigative journalist Bennett Arron , comedian, and victim of cyber crime And a few others About Phishy Business Fed up...

We’re gearing up for a summer of sporting excellence this year with the delayed Summer Olympics and Paralympics. On this week’s episode, we speak to Dutch Paralympian and world champion, Jetze Plat and his coach and sports doctor Guido Vroemen . In this inspirational chat, we learn about the importance of resilience, teamwork, rest and how, even with the best training in the world, the motivation...

A full day ahead of meetings looms on the horizon as you sip your morning coffee, a familiar scenario for most of us. The majority of these discussions will take place over some of the now ubiquitous video conferencing tools, like Zoom or Microsoft Teams. But are they really the best way to get work done? Would some of these meetings benefit from being in person, or over the phone, or through quic...

Sadly this is not a joke, it is the title of our guest’s book – Bennett Arron. In this episode of Phishy Business, the comedian, speaker, and author recounts how his identity was stolen and the devastating consequences it had on his life. This episode was much like the book, insightful, funny, and thought-provoking at the same time. In this episode of Phishy Business, ‘Heard the one about Identity...

Have you heard of carbon spider , mythic leopard and even ocean buffalo ? These are all code names for some of the biggest cyberattacks of 2020, code names created by the threat intelligence experts tracking activities of these cyberattacks.  Crowdstrike’s Derek Buchanan and Mimecast's Dr. Francis Gaffney help us understand how to predict, find and remediate cyber threats. Francis and Derek s...

Did you know that the average person checks their phone 47 times a day? While this a surprising number, this is also a very plausible number. This week we dive into the world of the generation who was born with technology and the internet, Generation Z, with author of Born Digital and Chairman of UK finance Bob Wigley. We discuss how they develop an online world personalised just for them that can...

Did you know it’s possible to be imprisoned on a database, but not in actual reality? While the idea may seem strange, this is the case for thousands of people around the world, whether they know it or not. With data breaches happening all the time, personal information is traded freely by unscrupulous forces on the dark web. It begs the question if anyone is truly safe from having their identity...

Cybercrime can be a very mysterious area. But for the uninitiated, the world of marketing can seem equally obscure. It’s easy to feel lost between complex marketing theories and incredibly sophisticated technology. But the realms of cybersecurity and marketing are colliding ever more frequently, with the rise of brand exploitation and growing role of data. And of course, both are fundamentally abo...

Picture a room full of one hundred IT specialists (or in today’s world, a screen of one hundred IT specialists). Going by the industry average, only 18 of those specialists would be female – while if we were looking at the C-suite, it would fall to just three. When cybersecurity is facing a skills shortage, it’s madness that the industry is failing to attract women. And Kerissa Varma, the Group CI...

In just three months in 2020, there were more than 900,000 spam messages and 48,000 malicious URLs – all related to Covid-19. At the same time, groups from the World Health Organisation to Interpol were issuing warnings about a surge in online threats. There’s no doubt cybercrime has become headline news. But author and investigative journalist Geoff White has been covering hacking since it was a...

Acronyms have been taking the data privacy world by storm. Who can forget GDPR coming into force in 2018? Well, now there’s a shiny new protection of personal information law on the scene: South Africa’s POPIA, which comes into force in July 2021. And of course, 9,000 miles due north, Brexit is yet another development impacting data privacy and protection. It’s a lot for businesses to unpick. But...

We all know a business’ cybersecurity is only as strong as its people. And that’s where Jenny Radcliffe comes in. Known as the People Hacker, Jenny is a psychologist and social engineer who helps her clients assess their security by breaking into their organisations, often without technology. In the very first episode of Phishy Business, we discuss: Stories of Jenny’s work in physical penetration...