Ollie Whitehouse is the founder BinaryFirefly a boutique British cyber advisory firm with a career spanning over 25 years in applied cyber attack and defence. Ollie's portfolio of advisory positions today includes science advisory positions for UK Government as a member of the Science Advisory Councils for the Home Office and Police, Industry 100 within the National Cyber Security Centre and various Non-Executive Directorships. His operational tenures include over ten and half years at NCC Group where he was Group CTO until the end of 2022, BlackBerry and Symantec. Ollie has given oral evidence to the UK Parliament Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy twice in 2017 and 2022 on matters related to cyber security.


 


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2:00 - Career and dot com


3:00 - Pen-testing and philosophy 


5:00 - Business and Cybersecurity and role of the cyber NED


9:00 - CISO


10:00 - Executive understanding 


12:00 - Cybersecurity technicalities - Pen tests and regulation


16:00 - Cybersecurity and regulation in the USA


19:00 - SBOM, Digital Software supply chain


22:00 - Regulators, Board and how they think 


26:00 - Assets, different opinions based on generation


30:00 - Non exec hands-on startups vs later stage 


35:00 - policy and frameworks, and assessing, quantifying the net value of a control


40:00 - Software vs infrastructure breach why more on software 


42:00 - scaling attacks with automation


46:00 - the business perspective 


47:00 - Positive message


 


Ollie Whitehouse


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https://bluepurple.binaryfirefly.com/ 


 


 


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