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<\/p>\nThis year\u2019s Cyber Security Festival from Computing, is the first year that it has been held in person and took place earlier in May at Wotton House, Surrey.\u00a0 The event was an intense two-day conference with an excellent array of speakers from industry, research and the Cyber Security community.<\/p>\n
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I attended last year\u2019s virtual conference, which was very insightful and included a talk from an ex-member of the hacker group Anonymous.\u00a0 This year\u2019s event was just as insightful, with topics ranging from Cyber Risk Quantification, Cyber Insurance, Zero Tolerance, attitudes to the Neurodivergent in Cyber, and the impact of remote working on security.<\/p>\n
The conference kicked off with a keynote speech from Charlie McMurdie, with views from a Cyber Crime perspective.\u00a0 It was a fascinating talk and covered arrests and insight Charlie\u2019s vast array of experience.<\/p>\n
Charlie McMurdie<\/strong><\/p>\n Formerly Head of the Police National Cyber Crime Unit and currently Senior Cyber Crime Advisor at PwC.<\/p>\n Charlie McMurdie, former head of the central e-crime unit, at the Metropolitan police. She has joined business consultancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as its senior crime adviser. Charlie had more than 30 years\u2018 service in the Metropolitan Police where she set up and led the Police Central e-crime Unit, with the national remit to undertake cyber crime investigations that impact the UK.<\/p>\n Charlie is an acknowledged cyber-crime and security expert who has a proven and highly acclaimed reputation for generating strategic direction and delivery of operational capability to confront the impact of cyber-crime whilst proactively utilising and responding to emerging technologies which fuel it.<\/p>\n Completing almost 32 years\u2018 service in the Metropolitan Police retiring at the rank of Detective Superintendent, Charlie is an individual who has breadth of vision, innovation and credibility as demonstrated in establishing and building the Police Central e-crime Unit, that is now a world class cyber-crime capability and the national cyber-crime investigative and enforcement body in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n In addition Charlie is an internationally acclaimed authority and advisor on issues within government and industry in relation to the Internet, communication technology, computing and security sectors and an effective ambassador and negotiator with refined interpersonal and influencing skills who leads for UK policing on a range of strategic programmes and sensitive partnerships with the private sector, and who maintains a unique personal network spanning academia, industry, government, law enforcement, intelligence and security agencies internationally.<\/p>\n The afternoon\u2019s keynote speech was from Ian Hill, who spoke about the \u2018Ultimate Threat\u2019 of using Cyber weapons to kill or injure.\u00a0 Although not particularly positive in its outlook, the talk covered a myriad of ways in which real-world harm can be inflicted through Cyber Crime and Warfare.<\/p>\n Clare Patterson<\/strong><\/p>\n