You're gunna need a bigger boat
2023-11-04 , TRACK 1

Cyber security professionals, regardless of our area of expertise, currently find themselves cast as firefighters who are in the middle of an out of control forest fire with only a water pistol to try and put it out. Across the industry we are seeing unprecedented rates of burnout, breach after breach hitting the news and a volatile landscape of risk that allows you just enough time to familiarise yourself with it before it shifts again. The balance of power, money and control is shifted in the attackers favour and there isn’t enough coffee coming across the channel to keep us fighting fit. So what is the answer? How can we work more closely together to cause disruption for these criminal enterprises? How should we think differently about cyber and threat intel? How can diversity help us problem solve the tough issues? This talk will hopefully leave you with more questions than answers but highlight the need for some healthy debate on how we change the trajectory of this fight.

Lisa Forte is a speaker, trainer, entrepreneur and high altitude climber! Lisa is an expert in running cyber crisis simulations and helping companies build their operational resilience to cyber attacks.

Lisa is the co-founder of Red Goat Cyber Security and passionately supports the “tech for good” philosophy helping smaller charities stay secure.

Lisa has starred in several documentary films and is a regular on BBC news, radio and in national papers. In 2020 Lisa co-founded a “cyber for good” movement called Cyber Volunteers 19. The group provides pro bono help and advice to hospitals around Europe during the pandemic and amassed almost 3000 volunteers.

Lisa is the co-founder of Red Goat Cyber Security who specialise in cyber crisis simulations and building operational resilience when it comes to cyber attacks. They also help companies with awareness training. Red Goat are an exciting company who are changing the way we view preparing for attacks and are coming up with creative solutions for companies around the world.

Lisa also climbs some of the world's highest peaks and travels to remote places to find untouched climbing spots and adventures.