For much of the last decade, the CISO’s job has been framed as a race against increasingly sophisticated adversaries armed with automation, AI, and an expanding arsenal of attack tools. We’ve been told that security teams are losing ground, that attackers are always one step ahead, that the next breach is inevitable and unstoppable. The truth is messier than that narrative suggests. The biggest challenge facing CISOs today has less to do with attacker sophistication and more to do with volume and speed. There are simply more attackers now; they can scale their operations faster than ever before, and most…
Philip Chapman
Philip Chapman
Phil Chapman is the Commercial Subject Matter Expert (CSME) for cybersecurity at Firebrand Training. Following a full-service career within RAF intelligence he joined a Microsoft training academy and gained experience and qualifications in infrastructure and network security across multiple industry sectors and regions. This was followed by six years working as a security consultant and trainer where he gained experience in financial, health, government and small business cyber and information security. Phil joined Firebrand as a full-time senior instructor in 2015 in order to support the cyber portfolio and was the lead technical trainer in the development of the law enforcement cybercrime program. During his time at Firebrand he has further developed his cybersecurity skills and experience and was instrumental in the development of the level 3 and 4 cybersecurity apprenticeship program and supported apprentices, in-work mentors and line managers across all industry sectors. He has also been responsible for the development of the cybersecurity modules within the BPP Technology Management masters degree.