45: Building resilience, with Goher Mohammad

In today's Security Stories episode we meet Goher Mohammad, Head of Infosec at L & Q Group, one of the UK’s largest charitable housing associations which houses over a quarter of a million people.

Goher’s is a story of resilience, geeking out over technology, and the challenges and rewards of building a brand new security team from scratch. We also talk about the power of community and how Goher is bringing together fellow non-profit security professionals.

Before that, Taz and Ben are back to join Hazel in the pod booth for a really interesting discussion on data privacy - more specifically online tracking, and some recent developments made there. You can also check out Cisco's new Data Privacy Report: Privacy becomes mission critical.

Please note that this episode was recorded before the events in Ukraine.  For analysis on what  Cisco Talos is observing, which includes a variety of cyber attacks targeting Ukraine, including disinformation, defacements, DDoS, and wiper malware please check out the Talos threat advisory blog.

Cisco stands guard with our customers in Ukraine. You can read here about Talos’ efforts to-date in information gathering, threat hunting and the assigning of dedicated Cisco engineers to Ukrainian organizations seeking to secure their operations, and how we have taken the extraordinary step of directly operating security products 24/7 for critical customers in Ukraine while over 500 employees at Cisco have joined them to assist in collecting open-source intelligence.