We still have a long way to go with BYOD, and there is a massive hill with regards to educating the public about using unsecured WiFi environments.
Professor John Walker
Professor John Walker
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).
John Walker comments on common user behavior with respect to mobile devices and suggests that these tools deserve more respect and security awareness.
Professor John Walker weighs in on what makes up a positive security culture and how it can be implemented successfully.
Professor John Walker proposes that we should utilize the element of imagination to think as would a cyber criminal to locate security unknowns.
Professor John Walker gives his reasoning for why he sees Richard Clarke as one of the most influential people in the infosec field over the past decade.
Willie Sutton responded when asked why he robbed banks, his simple and eloquent answer was ‘Because that’s where the money is’.
It is looking like the new Bahrain CyberCrime law is going to set the demographic bar for those Hackers and Hacktivists who are found to be culpable
One upon a time electronic tracking person [target] was expensive, and difficult to achieve, but with the advancement of technology
“We do not see the computer virus as something we should take seriously” – The CESG signal commented that the computer virus was only a passing nuisance!
When it comes to Cyber Security, during Waking Shark II, there were what seem to be issues with a lack of investment