Cyber Security In Focus

Cyber Security in Focus brings together cyber security professionals for open, informed conversations about the challenges shaping the industry today. Each episode explores real-world threats, emerging risks, research and innovation, and the realities of defending organisations in an evolving threat landscape. Through peer-to-peer discussion, guests share practical experience, lessons learned, and honest perspectives. Designed for CISOs, IT and security leaders, and risk and compliance professionals, Cyber Security in Focus is about continuous learning, collaboration, and strengthening cyber defences together.

Cyber Security In Focus is a business podcast hosted by Secon Cyber, with 11 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Secon Cyber hosts Cyber Security In Focus, a business show with 11 episodes published.

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  Episode #10

  From Recon to Ransom: Inside the Attacker's Playbook with Glenn Wilkinson, Ethical Hacker

  May 6, 202634 minS1

  <p>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.</p><p></p><p>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 enforcement, and presented at Black Hat and DEF CON. He brings that attacker's perspective directly to the conversations organisations need to be having right now.</p><p></p><p>The episode covers significant ground: the structured methodology that makes...

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  Episode #10

  From Recon to Ransom: Inside the Attacker's Playbook with Glenn Wilkinson, Ethical Hacker

  May 6, 202634 minS1

  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 enforcement, and presented at Black Hat and DEF CON. He brings that attacker's perspective directly to the conversations organisations need to be having right now. The episode covers significant ground: the structured methodology that makes hackers effective, why most breaches still start with a person rather than a system, and what it really means that attackers spend an average of 197 days on a network before anyone notices. Glenn also explains why a passed pen test is not the same as being secure, and makes the case for reframing cybersecurity as a business continuity issue, not an IT problem, to get genuine board-level engagement. The conversation closes on ransomware: what it actually is, how to build your defences before it hits, and the decision no organisation properly prepares for until it's too late, pay, or don't pay, including the legal and moral complications most people don't see coming. Practical, direct, and grounded in real-world experience. This is how attackers think. This is what that should change about how you defend.

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  Episode #9

  Third-Party Risk in the Age of AI with Chris Thornberry, Information Security Manager & DPO at Oleeo

  Apr 28, 202633 minS1

  <p>Managing third-party risk has always been complex. Add AI into the supply chain, and the rules change entirely.</p><p></p><p>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. </p><p></p><p>With over six years navigating security at the intersection of GRC and technical resilience, Chris brings a grounded, pragmatic perspective on what robust third-party risk management actually looks like in practice.</p><p></p><p>Chris and Katie dig into...

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  Episode #8

  Building Trust In Your Team & Supply Chain with Keith Price Director of Security, National Highways

  Apr 21, 202634 minS1

  <p>When a cyber attack hits, most organisations focus on what technology failed. Keith Price focuses on whether the people were ready.</p><p></p><p>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 occurs, and it starts with the team.</p><p></p><p>In this episode, Keith shares what two decades in the US military, consulting roles across oil, gas, and banking in...

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  Episode #7

  You Can't Patch a Human: Security Awareness as a Behavioural Science with Lucy Finlay

  Apr 15, 202631 minS1

  <p>Security awareness has spent years stuck in the same loop, annual training, phishing simulations, completion rates. </p><p></p><p>Budgets are tight, compliance is the priority, and the dial on actual human behaviour barely moves.</p><p></p><p>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 a phishing simulation. It doesn't work. And the data backs her up.</p><p></p><p>In this episode, Lucy, who built her career through marketing, languages...

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