Human Factor Security
172 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsJenny Radcliffe interviews experts about human behaviour, social engineering, business, security and life.
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The Lockdown Diaries - Ian Murphy
May 21, 2020 07:55 - 38 minutes - 18 MBAnother episode from “The Lockdown Diaries” a series of light-hearted short interviews with security and cyber professionals about how the Covid19 pandemic has changed the way that they work and life in general. Jenny is joined by Ian Murphy of LMNTRX, where they discuss how the shiny security things have changed during Covid19, the premiere league, conferences and events and fitness regimes. To follow Ian on LinkedIn, click the link here. To read the article from Erick Rudiak, that...
The Lockdown Diaries - Quentyn Taylor
May 19, 2020 08:54 - 53 minutes - 25.1 MBAnother episode from “The Lockdown Diaries” a series of light-hearted short interviews with security and cyber professionals about how the Covid19 pandemic has changed the way that they work and life in general. In a packed show Jenny is joined by returning guest Quentyn Taylor. They talk all things lockdown and working from home as well as Conspiracy Theories, O-Rings, Solar Chargers and whether there is life on Mars.... To follow Quentyn on Twitter, click the link here. To watch Qu...
The Lockdown Diaries - Daniel Sutton
May 14, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 30.5 MBAnother episode from “The Lockdown Diaries” a series of light-hearted short interviews with security and cyber professionals about how the Covid19 pandemic has changed the way that they work and life in general. Jenny is joined by mentalist/magician and social engineer Daniel Sutton. They chat about the links between magic and social engineering, including distraction techniques, pickpocketing and hypnosis. They discuss how memory can be fallible and easily moulded and how this applies ...
The Lockdown Diaries - Phil Ingram MBE
May 12, 2020 06:51 - 49 minutes - 23 MBAnother episode from “The Lockdown Diaries” a series of light-hearted short interviews with security and cyber professionals about how the Covid19 pandemic has changed the way that they work and life in general. Jenny is joined by Phil Ingrim MBE whose knowledge of geopolitics is put to good use with conversations surrounding President Trump, Russia and Iran's handling of the pandemic, what on earth happened to Kim Jong Un and why cultural tendencies make comparisons difficult in this...
The Lockdown Diaries - Professor Daniel Dresner
May 07, 2020 07:00 - 40 minutes - 19.1 MBAnother episode from “The Lockdown Diaries” a series of light-hearted short interviews with security and cyber professionals about how the Covid19 pandemic has changed the way that they work and life in general. In this lockdown diary episode Jenny is joined once again by Professor Daniel Dresner. Over the course of this episode, they cover topics such as people's ever changing perception of risk, adapting to remote teaching and remaining positive in these strange times. To follow Prof...
The Lockdown Diaries - Cary Hendricks and Stuart Coulson
May 04, 2020 07:00 - 57 minutes - 27 MBAnother episode from “The Lockdown Diaries” a series of light-hearted short interviews with security and cyber professionals about how the Covid19 pandemic has changed the way that they work and life in general. In this lockdown diary episode Jenny is joined once again by Stuart Coulson and also Cary "figjam" Hendricks. In one episode they manage to cover, Volcanoes, BBQs, Alien invasions, Privacy apps and tracking, the death of privacy, information overload, people in bed in online me...
The Lockdown Diaries - Joe Gray
April 30, 2020 10:09 - 40 minutes - 18.8 MBAnother episode from “The Lockdown Diaries” a series of light-hearted short interviews with security and cyber professionals about how the Covid19 pandemic has changed the way that they work and life in general. For this episode, we welcome CP3Joe, where he and Jenny talk all things OSINT, Social Engineering and what the lockdown looks like from his perspective in the USA. To learn more about the BSides Knoxville schedule, click here. To learn more about the OSINT Tool Joe has develop...
The Lockdown Diaries - Nick Lambe
April 28, 2020 09:56 - 34 minutes - 16.1 MBAnother episode from “The Lockdown Diaries” a series of light-hearted short interviews with security and cyber professionals about how the Covid19 pandemic has changed the way that they work and life in general. For this episode, we welcome back Nick Lambe, who talks about potential security breaches during lockdown, working from home, building the Nightingales IKEA style and the positivity of community spirit at this time. To follow Nick on Instagram, click the link here. To get in...
The Lockdown Diaries - Stuart Coulson
April 25, 2020 11:31 - 45 minutes - 21.3 MBAnother episode from “The Lockdown Diaries” a series of light-hearted short interviews with security and cyber professionals about how the Covid19 pandemic has changed the way that they work and life in general. For this episode, we welcome back Stuart Coulson. Listen in as they talk about the positives to take from the current situation, the rescheduling of BSides Liverpool and how to grow infinite spring onions?!? To follow Stuart on Twitter, click the link here. To get in touch try...
The Lockdown Diaries - Kieren Lovell
April 24, 2020 09:41 - 32 minutes - 15.1 MBThe Human Factor Security podcast returns with "The Lockdown Diaries" a series of light-hearted short interviews with security and cyber professionals about how the Covid19 pandemic has changed the way that they work and life in general. For this episode, we welcome back Kieren Lovell, Head of Computer Emergency Responses Special Handling Department, at Tallinn University. Listen in as they talk about the sorts of attacks that risen and what steps people can take to help themselves. T...
Joe Petit
February 07, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 28.8 MBJoe works at both Tripwire, where he is Managing Editor and Bora the IT Security Marketing agency helping companies with their SEO, blog content, whitepapers, social media, lead generation & more. Listen in as we hear Joe and Jenny discuss the benefits of remote working especially across timezones, breaking news stories and how marketing needs to be handled. To learn more about Tripwire, click the link here. To learn more about Bora, click the link here. To follow Joe on LinkedIn...
Jonathan Stock
January 31, 2020 07:25 - 59 minutes - 27.5 MBJonathan works for IntaPeople, specialising in the recruitment of IT personnel. In his role he helps companies find the best candidates for their needs. Listen in as Jenny and Jonathan talk about Star Wars, the oft cited skills gap, role descriptions, recruitment best practices for both companies and agencies, and what is needed to take the industry forward - clue- its all about the humans! To follow Jonathan on LinkedIn, click here. To follow Jonathan on Twitter, click here. Don't ...
Holly Foxcroft
January 24, 2020 05:00 - 54 minutes - 25.5 MBHolly is an expert in cyber warfare and neuro diversity, helping organisation aware, educated and able to adopt best practices for neuro diverse mindsets. Listen to Jenny and Holly chat about her work helping organisations benefit from neuro diverse mindsets, how she became involved and how Family Guy is relevant to Siri. To follow Holly on LinkedIn, click the link here. To follow Holly on Twitter, click the link here. To read the article about Stewie, click the link here. Do...
Neira Jones
January 23, 2020 19:25 - 47 minutes - 22.2 MBListen in as Jenny and Neira explore her life and career, including her focus, inquisitiveness and the positive action that has put her at the vanguard of new technologies, won her a multitude of awards and brought her well-deserved and widespread industry respect and recognition. Thank you for an awesome and inspiring interview Neira! To follow Neira on LinkedIn, click the link here. To follow Neira on Twitter, click the link here. Don't forget, to get in touch with me either try t...
Brett Johnson
January 10, 2020 11:05 - 1 hour - 29.2 MBBrett is a Cybersecurity, Cybercrime, Fraud and Identity theft expert, who uses the skills he learnt as a criminal to help law enforcement, individuals and companies protect themselves from the type of person he used to be. Listen in, as Jenny and Brett chat about how he got started in cybercrime, his time on the run, and eventually being caught and sent to prison. They discuss his experiences inside and how he has taken responsibility for his actions and is on a mission to educate us...
James Linton
December 20, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 32 MBJames Linton is a Threat Researcher, but is more commonly known as the Email Prankster™ who has a long list of people who have fallen for his online approaches. Listen to James and Jenny chat about how such work is carried out and the effort that is put into the initial contact and keeping the ruse going, whilst it is live. Flashdance (Blu-ray) To follow James on Twitter, click the link here. To follow James on LinkedIn, click the link here. To learn more about what he has done...
Dr Martina Dove
December 13, 2019 11:01 - 56 minutes - 26.5 MBDr Martina Dove is a psychology researcher who has investigated fraud prevention, fraud vulnerability, persuasion, gullibility and scam techniques. Jenny and Martina discuss scams, frauds, the victims and perpetrators, diving into why and how people fall victim with cognitive bias playing an important role. To read more about Dr Martina's work, click here to visit her site. To follow Dr Martina on LinkedIn, click the link here. To follow Dr Martina on Twitter, click the link here. ...
Matthew Trump
December 06, 2019 05:00 - 46 minutes - 21.7 MBMatthew has a wealth of experience of information governance, in aspects such as developing risk registers, incident response plans, deploying awareness campaigns and vulnerability scans. Matthew's experience comes from his time in the military, where he was deployed in Iraq, and higher education. Matthew has an ethos of continual learning, both formally and informally, having completed his MSc and PhD at Salford University. Currently he is working on a MBA, investigating the use of the ...
Kathleen Mullin
November 29, 2019 05:00 - 55 minutes - 26 MBKathleen brings a wealth of diverse experience to her role as CISO for Healthmap Solutions. She has worked in various accounting, audit, risk, governance, and information security roles. Added to that Kathleen has background in publicly traded, private equity, start up, not-for-profit, and governmental organisations. Listen to Jenny explore how her background has helped form her perspective, encourage a more security conscious culture within organisations and how listening to others is s...
Ben Docherty
November 19, 2019 10:07 - 10 minutes - 5.19 MBBen Docherty is the organiser for BSides Newcastle, which is the fastest organised BSides ever. By pulling in favours from friends and being innovative with sponsorship he has managed to get the whole thing ready to rock on Saturday November 23 2019. Listen to Jenny discuss how he's achieved this and what those attending have in store. To follow BSides Newcastle on Twitter, click the link here. To get a ticket, click the link here. Don't forget you can also follow Jenny on Twitter ...
Martin Smith MBE
November 15, 2019 05:00 - 55 minutes - 25.9 MBMartin Smith has a degree in Behavioural Psychology and served in the Royal Air Force, before leaving and working for several organisations prior to founding The Security Company, in 1997. Martin has also been a key figure in The Security Awareness Special Interest Group, which discusses the difficult questions and topics. Listen to Jenny and Martin talk about his time in the RAF, his undying optimism and how the human side of business needs as much if not more attention today. To fin...
Sophina Kio-Lawson
October 31, 2019 06:33 - 24 minutes - 11.6 MBSophina is a passionate Advocate for African Women in Cyber Security, where she helps to promote and support African Women with events, meet-ups, an online community and other initiatives. Through her inspirational leadership she is helping other women and the community at large better understand the advantages of having women in cyber security. Not content with that Sophina is a bug bounty hunter and researcher. Listen to Jenny and Sophina discus how she got into security, her trip to L...
Tin Foil Hats Club with Quentyn Taylor
October 18, 2019 08:58 - 57 minutes - 26.7 MBThe Tin Foil Hats Club returns for its sixth episode. In this edition Jenny chats with Quentyn Taylor, the Bushtucker CISO, as a follow up to the grab bag episode (No. 111) with Stuart Coulson and Cary Hendricks. Listen in as preparedness, the Hunted TV show and ideas for survival from movies are all discussed. To follow Quentyn on Twitter, click the link here. To follow Quentyn on Instagram, click the link here. To watch Quentyn's videos, click the link here. Don't forget you c...
Tin Foil Hats Club with Quentin Taylor
October 18, 2019 08:58 - 57 minutes - 26.7 MBThe Tin Foil Hats Club returns for its sixth episode. In this edition Jenny chats with Quentin Taylor, the Bushtucker CISO, as a follow up to the grab bag episode (No. 111) with Stuart Coulson and Cary Hendricks. Listen in as preparedness, the Hunted TV show and ideas for survival from movies are all discussed. To follow Quentin on Twitter, click the link here. To follow Quentin on Instagram, click the link here. To watch Quentin's videos, click the link here. Don't forget you c...
Daniel Cuthbert
October 11, 2019 11:01 - 45 minutes - 21.4 MBDaniel is responsible for leading the research direction for cyber security technology platforms, tradecraft and capabilities and partnering with a variety of organisations and individuals to help make Santander as a world class cyber security organisation. Added to that he is a co-author of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) ASVS Standard. Not content with that he is also an excellent documentary photographer. Listen to Jenny and Daniel chat about how the industry needs ...
Omri Moyal
September 27, 2019 05:00 - 47 minutes - 22.2 MBOmri is a malware researcher and threat intelligence expert with global experience in military, industrial, intelligence, communication and financial organisations. He is also an entrepreneur and public speaker. Listen in as we find out just how young he was when he first started to learn to program, how work ethic is important and that we should all be more considerate when thinking about sharing information as there could be wider implication to our actions. To follow Omri on Linked...
Tin Foil Hats Club with Cary Hendricks and Stuart Coulson.
September 23, 2019 08:57 - 49 minutes - 22.9 MBThe Tin Foil Hats Club returns for its fifth episode. In this edition Jenny chats with Cary Hendricks and Stuart Coulson to discuss grab bags, yellowhammer, Halloween costumes and how the recent social media "preparedness" campaign by emergency services may have raised more questions about possible incoming emergencies ahead of the 31st October, than it managed to resolve. What should go in a grab bag? What do we do when the "network goes down" What sort of emergency are government e...
Kim Crawley
September 13, 2019 05:00 - 52 minutes - 24.4 MBKim writes about cybersecurity for Tripwire, AT&T Cybersecurity, Venafi, and Cylance's blogs. She also writes for Peerlyst. In the past Kim has contributed to Infosecurity Magazine, Threatpost, Comodo's blog, CCSI's blog, CSO, CIO, Computerworld, Hacker Noon, The Threat Report, and 2600 Magazine. Listen in as Jenny and Kim discuss early years tech support, writing and deep fakes. To read the Deep Fake Peerlyst article by Kim, click the link here. To follow Kim on Twitter, click the ...
Neil Morrin and Ignite Liverpool
September 09, 2019 05:00 - 14 minutes - 6.53 MBNeil Morrin is the co-ordinator for Ignite Liverpool, an evening of talks in a similar vein to TED and Pecha Kucha events but only 5 minutes long. Ignite Liverpool is only the “local branch” of a much larger network of Ignites spanning the Globe. Jenny has been speaking to the Ignite Liverpool Team and can announce that the next event will have a distinctly infosec and hacker flavour. Listen in as you learn what the ethos is behind the Ignite events, when this event is and how you ne...
Tin Foil Hats Club with Kate O'Flaherty, Philip Ingram MBE and Ian Thornton-Trump
September 06, 2019 05:00 - 38 minutes - 17.4 MBIn the fourth of this semi-regular series, the Tin Foil Hats Club, Jenny chats with Kate O'Flaherty, Philip Ingram MBE and Ian Thornton-Trump to discuss voter fraud protection, bad actors and how we all need to be better at managing our cyber footprint. To read U.S. Government Confirms Plan To Defend 2020 Election Against Cyberattacks article by Kate click the link. To read Trump Administration Moves To Reauthorise NSA’s Controversial Spying Program article also by Kate click the link....
Steve Lord and 44CON
September 03, 2019 13:29 - 23 minutes - 10.8 MBJenny chats with Steve Lord, co-founder of 44CON about the origins of the event, the idea behind it and what's coming up at the ILEC in London. The training is taking place between 9 - 11th September 2019 and the conference is taking place between 11 - 13th September 2019. To find out more and go book your ticket click the link to their website here. To follow 44CON on Twitter click the link here. To follow Steve Lord on Twitter click the link here. Don't forget you can also ...
Tin Foil Hats Club with Patricia Vella
August 27, 2019 16:42 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MBIn response to Episode 104, this third episode in the semi-regular series, the Tin Foil Hats Club, Jenny chats with a previous guest,Patricia Vella. Taking the theme of the recent infrastructure failures from Episode 104, Patricia shares her extensive knowledge and experience on cascade events can cause the issues experienced and how planning for such incidents are key to mitigating their impact. To follow Patricia on Twitter click the link here. To visit Patricia's website click the l...
Ian Murphy
August 23, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 28.3 MBIan is the Co-Founder and Vice President at LMNTRIX, where they advocate an active approach to security rather than passive. Ian brings his years of experience, across many industries and types of organisations, to help companies with common sense advice and helping them to understand the threats they face. Listen in as he explains how his background helped to shape him, including the work environment during his apprentice years, frustrations with some aspects of the industry and how S...
Tin Foil Hats Club with Philip Ingram MBE
August 13, 2019 10:25 - 36 minutes - 16.7 MBIn the second of this semi-regular series, the Tin Foil Hats Club, Jenny chats with a previous guest, Philip Ingram MBE. They discuss the recent infrastructure failures the UK experienced, trying to cut through the noise to establish if they were part of a coordinated attack, what it means for the UK and why would such an attack take place. Look below for the links mentioned during the conversation. Philip Ingram's previous appearance on the Human Factor Security Podcast, click here to...
David Higgins
August 09, 2019 08:14 - 1 hour - 28.8 MBDavid is a highly skilled program director who has national and international experience in Financial Services, Business Intelligence, National Security and Cyber, Smart Meters and IoT, amongst others. He has developed digital, technology, data integration and security strategies for e-health, smart meters, national security, border control, e-learning, cloud, cyber security and desktop. Listen to them chat about working in governmental circles, with the challenges that brings, as well...
Alyssa Miller
July 19, 2019 05:00 - 51 minutes - 23.4 MBAlyssa Miller has a passion for security and her goal is to change the way we look at the security of our interconnected way of life and focus attention on defending privacy and upholding trust. She evangelizes her message about evolving the way people think about and approach security, privacy and trust through speaking engagements at various conferences and other events. Listen in as we learn how Alyssa took her first steps into the world of infosec, how important the right sort of le...
Andy Gill
July 05, 2019 05:00 - 53 minutes - 24.6 MBAndy is a hacker at heart, who's always been interested in taking things apart and sometimes even putting them together again(in-fact he spent a good few years in computer repair and data recovery). As his day job, Andy works as a senior penetration tester who is capable of delivering a wide spectrum of assessment types. These include; web applications, external & internal infrastructure, open source intelligence gathering, configuration reviews and many more. To check Andy's site out, ...
Philip Ingram MBE
June 21, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 28.8 MBPhilip Ingram MBE BSc MA is a journalist specialising in the security, counter terror, defence and intelligence arenas. His knowledge is built from a long and senior military career as an intelligence and security officer, and strategic planner, with business experience at board level in the steel industry and security media (marketing) industry; he maintains a close interest in global events. When not, key note speaking, chairing events, commenting for national and international press out...
Jake Moore
May 24, 2019 05:00 - 56 minutes - 25.6 MBJake Moore is a Cyber Security Specialist for ESET. He previously worked for Dorset Police spanning 14 years primarily investigating computer crime in the Digital Forensics Unit on a range of offences from fraud to murder. Within law enforcement powers, he learnt how to retrieve digital evidence from all devices whilst engaging in a variety of ways to ethically break security in order to help protect innocent victims of cyber rime. He then became a cyber security consultant in the Cyber Cri...
Richard Hollis
May 17, 2019 05:00 - 49 minutes - 22.4 MBRichard Hollis is the Chief Executive Officer for Risk Factory Ltd, a European information security risk management consulting firm specialising in providing effective, independent information risk management services. As a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control, (CRISC), Certified Protection Professional (CPP) and a Payment Card Industry (PCI) Qualified Security Assessor (QSA), Richard possesses extensive hands on skills and experie...
Phil Kimpton
May 10, 2019 05:00 - 47 minutes - 21.6 MBPhill Kimpton has been a Security Consultant for 18 months now, with no previous IT experience. He's passionate to continue developing his skills as a tester and takes great delight in helping others looking to follow the same path. In his spare time he can be found on Twitter, in the gym or jumping out of a perfectly serviceable aircraft. Jenny was delighted to be joined by Phil Kimpton aka phr33fall to talk about skydiving, careers and his determination to get into the information s...
Thom Langford
May 03, 2019 12:05 - 43 minutes - 19.7 MBThom Langford, the founder of (TL)2 Security Ltd, returns to the show. Listen in as he and Jenny discuss the creation of his consultancy business, his approach to working with clients and his views on the state of the industry. To visit the (TL)2 Security Ltd's website click the link here. To visit Thom's personal site, with his presentations, click here. To follow Thom on Twitter click the link here. Don't forget you can also follow Jenny on Twitter by clicking the link here.
Meadow Ellis
April 26, 2019 06:54 - 52 minutes - 59.6 MBMeadow is a hardware security dark witch with a keen eye and open heart to how normal users take what we, the security nerds, provide them with. Meadow also specialises in automation for the purpose of removing humans from the equation and is a firm believer in security serving normal users, not the other way around. Nothing makes her happier than being able to help others, be it with her job, the information security community work or by means of random Twitter threads - maybe apart fr...
Paul O'Sullivan
April 12, 2019 05:00 - 56 minutes - 25.7 MBLeading the sales team at Next Generation Security is the latest incarnation for Paul who has wide industry experience and strong opinions on the information security industry, lifelong learning and how sales professionals should go about doing their job. Pulling no punches, this is a fascinating interview that covers how this infosec professional sees the industry now, how to start out in your security career and why a people focus still matters even when you deal with the tech. Thank yo...
Mo Amin
April 05, 2019 05:00 - 57 minutes - 26.3 MBMo has extensive experience in helping organisations with the cultural and behavioural side of cyber security. He has gained this experience in roles across the public and private sector having worked on business as usual activities, security improvement programmes, transformation projects, large scale implementation programmes as well as projects that have had media coverage. Listen in to Mo and Jenny explore culture in organisations and how best to bring about positive change in any env...
Lydia Kostopoulos
March 29, 2019 05:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBDr. Lydia Kostopoulos consults on the intersection of people, strategy, technology, education, and national security. She addressed the United Nations member states on the military effects panel at the Convention of Certain Weapons Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) meeting on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS). Formerly the Director for Strategic Engagement at the College of Information and Cyberspace at the National Defense University, a Principal Consultant for PA and higher educa...
Thomas Fischer
March 22, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 29.6 MBThomas has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry ranging from software development to infrastructure & network operations and architecture to settle in information security. He has an extensive security background covering roles from incident responder to security architect at fortune 500 companies, vendors and consulting organisations. He is currently security advocate and threat researcher focused on advising companies on understanding their data protection activities against ...
Mark Carney
March 15, 2019 05:00 - 57 minutes - 26.3 MBIn this episode @LargeCardinal aka Mark Carney talks about his wide ranging career in IT and retro computers. His unusual route into the profession, and his views on the industry. A fellow Liverpudlian Mark has expertise in many different areas and is the founder of Bsides Leeds. Hacker & Mathmo, formerly a Musician; Having started out on helpdesk in a software firm, then becoming violinist with a degree in Music w/ Philosophy via being a DBA for a firm, Mark then went on to do an MSc...
Ed Tucker
March 01, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 27.6 MBEd Tucker is the co-founder of Human Firewall, an operationalised security awareness platform that enables a single employee to protect the whole organization. Ed is also co-founder of EmailAuth, a solution designed to increase adoption of DMARC, providing enhanced email deliverability and customer protection. Ed was previously CIO at security startup DP Governance and prior to that head of cybersecurity at HM Revenue & Customs. He was the 2017 European Chief Information Security Officer ...
Episode 86: Liz Hardwick
February 22, 2019 05:00 - 57 minutes - 26.5 MBLiz Hardwick is Co-Founder of DigiEnable, an award-winning Digital Training & Services Company, based in Lancashire. She designs and delivers tech-based and online marketing workshops and is a professional speaker, appearing at conferences and events across the UK and beyond. Liz’s career started in broadcasting working for a number of the major radio and television companies, as well as spending a number of years creating media for charities prior to starting her own business. She is a ...