The Ransomware Threat

Join Softcat, Nutanix and guest speakers for an open roundtable conversation discussing the prevalence of threats companies face in the UK and globally, alongside sharing experiences amongst fellow financial services companies.

Cyber-attacks, reliance on 3rd parties and the effect of covid alongside more local issues of systems and data security are all major contributors that are impacting corporations today. Based on the growing number of reported incidents the FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) has predicted a trend of increasing threats to the Financial Services sector. This is especially unnerving when this sector is seeing significant movements of applications, data and workloads to the cloud often for the first time.

Greg van der Gaast

Greg van der Gaast is a frequent speaker and consultant on bringing care, initiative, and accountability to the Information Security profession in order to break out of today’s costly and often ineffective reactive status quo.

He is an expert at building Information Security organisations that not only perform better at protecting the business, but also enable it through numerous other benefits including increased IT quality, new business capabilities, and even additional revenue.

He does this by introducing elements of leadership, strategic thinking, and business alignment rarely seen in the field of Information Security.

His security and business experience spans nearly 25 years, from covert operations with the FBI and DoD to creating bespoke security programmes and organisations for Fortune 500 companies.

In addition to being the CISO of Scoutbee GmbH, he is also a Bloor Navigator and Managing Director at consultancy CMCG.

EVENT HOST

In the ideal digital world, multiple workloads would share the same infrastructure without friction, so you’d be able to achieve your goals quickly and efficiently. Nutanix eliminates the pain points of legacy IT operations that lead to silos of infrastructure. Plus, Nutanix provides a public cloud experience in a software-defined approach that allows you to simplify and become more agile while utilizing a single platform for all workloads across private, public, and hybrid cloud deployments.

Softcat plc (LSE:SCT) is one of the UK’s leading IT infrastructure providers and a FTSE 250 listed company. Softcat provide organisations with workplace, datacentre, networking and security solutions combined with all the services required to design, deliver and support these on premise or in the cloud.

Founded in 1993, Softcat employ over 1300 people across nine locations in the UK and Ireland. Softcat are passionate about outstanding employee satisfaction and world-class customer service – both of which inspire a flexible, friendly approach to business.