For month of November, question to our expert panel members is:
Which research topic or project in cyber security do you think deserves more funding from Government or other sources and why? and response is below:
Given the state of known cyber incursions, security breaches, and large scale attacks manifesting in significant losses to top brand organisation, along with the very real impact on those trusting end-users, one area which I feel deserves investment is Public Security Education and Awareness Campaigns.
I would expect such campaigns to accommodate a similar level of security education as would be provided to inter-corporate staff – raising their awareness of the associated risk of employing the internet, and provisioning the user public with the required levels of skill to secure their on line experiences. This linked with a poster campaign, and some low cost advertisements on the TV and in the media could, I believe make a very big difference, and protect some of those exposed electronic pockets of hard earned cash.
John is the Principle at Shadow-Intelligence (Si), partnering with PALISCOPE, BreachAware and iStorage. He is a Visiting Professor at the School of Science and Technology, Nottingham, Trent University (NTU) and holds the appointment of Editor in Chief for the International Journal of Cyber Forensics and Advanced Threat Investigations (CFATI). For the last decade he has delivered training courses in the Middle, and Far East to Commercial, Industrial, the Financial Services Sector, and Military Agencies, including the UAE, US, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia (KL), Singapore, Argentina, and Sao Paulo
He served in the Royal Air Force 22 years’, specialising in Counterintelligence, working with UK Agencies such as GCHQ/CESG, and others in the fields of SIGINT, COMINT and Satellite Communications, holding appointments such as System ITSO for a CIA SCIF.
In the commercials sectors of IT/Cyber he has worked for/with Logica, Bae, T5, GM, Experian, Betfair, Palace of Westminster, House of Lords/Commons, TSol (Treasury Solicitors) and provided Consultancy to the Saudi Arabian MOD, TRA (Telecommunications Authority (Dubai) and the Military Academy of Malaysia (KL) on SOC, CSIRT, Digital Forensics and OSINT. Within the last 5 years he has focused on Geopolitics, with global expertise around the UAE and Russia, Anti-Terrorist Operations (ATO), Cyber-Warfare, Dezinformatsiya (Disinformation) and Maskirovka (Military Deception).
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