The Ransomware Threat

Recent events have highlighted some of the threats that companies face in the UK. Cyber attacks, reliance on 3rd parties and the impact of COVID 19 are some, whilst more local issues around systems and data security are some of the others which are impacting the sector today. The FCA is predicting a trend of increasing threats based on the growing number of reported incidents at a time when this sector is seeing a significant movement of applications, data and workloads to the cloud, sometimes for the first time.

You will have the opportunity to how financial services companies are addressing these trends and have the opportunity to participate in an informal open forum to discuss these current topics and strategies.

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.

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