Keynote SpeakerIan Thornton-Trump

Popular Talks by Ian Thornton-Trump

• Effective communication & Leadership for Information Security Professionals

  Effective communication can make day-to-day cyber security events or a crisis easier on everyone! Drawing on his Defence Public Affairs Course (DPAC) when employed as a Canadian Brigade Group Public Affairs Officer Ian Thornton-Trump CD also brings years of cyber security mentorship, leadership as the CISO at Inversion6. Ian will… Read more

  Effective communication can make day-to-day cyber security events or a crisis easier on everyone! Drawing on his Defence Public Affairs Course (DPAC) when employed as a Canadian Brigade Group Public Affairs Officer Ian Thornton-Trump CD also brings years of cyber security mentorship, leadership as the CISO at Inversion6. Ian will present a workshop on effective cyber security communications. This workshop is geared to anyone who must explain complex cyber security events to customers, internal stakeholders, executive leadership, and technical team members. This hands-on workshop will be scenario driven and based upon real-life incidents.

  Fundamentally, the ability to communicate with precision, brevity, and clarity during incident response, when preparing a threat intelligence report, or just summarizing a customer interaction concisely, enhances your cyber security effectiveness. During this workshop, real life scenarios will be presented, and participants will be invited to write short summaries for different audiences using different techniques.

  Participants will learn:
  – The “bottom line up front” BLUF writing technique
  – How to simplify & visualize complex information
  – The importance of using “analyst language”
  – Effective techniques for crisis communications
  – Communications to vendor, supply chain and customers
  – Media awareness techniques to stay on message

  Ian will go in depth and present a combination of leadership and communication techniques to survive unpleasant cyber security events, prepare cyber security information for different audiences and introduce a new form of analysis writing (better than journalism or academic styles) called Bottom Line Up Front, or BLUF. Cyber security communications within an organisation or with external customers requires a deep understanding of the business culture and clarity, whilst providing information in an easily consumable form. As background Ian has had the role and training as a Public Affairs Officer in the Canadian Armed Forces and has a peer reviewed journal paper called “8 Principles of Cyber Security Leadership” which he will provide to all attendees.

• Predicting Compromise A Case Study: How Some Organizations Are Wide Open to Threat Actors

  The contents of a data breach matter – to both cyber criminals and state backed threat actors. The type of data lost in a data breach can be used for targeted attacks – nearly everyone knows this. What they may not know is the type of data maybe more suitable… Read more

  The contents of a data breach matter – to both cyber criminals and state backed threat actors. The type of data lost in a data breach can be used for targeted attacks – nearly everyone knows this. What they may not know is the type of data maybe more suitable for some types of crime than other types of crime. The more personal information disclosed the greater the likely hood of a precision attack. When the attacker is a nation state threat actor, the resources and effort to develop a bot driven disinformation, misinformation and suppression campaign depends a lot on the data available – it needs to be fresh, and it needs to hint at a political affiliation to maximize the effectiveness. On the 1st of July 2024, it was reported that Russian hackers infiltrated the ‘Spiritual home of Tory Party. Join Ian Thornton-Trump CD, CISO for Inversion6 for a  presentation on what “the perfect” data breach looks like by a nation state threat actor or a cyber-criminal and what your organization can do to prevent it.

• Geopolitics and Nation State Threat Actors

  What are the key trends of 2024 cyber-criminals and nation state actors will use to impact organizations the most in 2025? Will internation law enforcement continue to increase the pressure on threat actors? Will the new American administration change their anti-cybercrime strategy in 2025? Join Ian Thornton-Trump CD, CISO for… Read more

  What are the key trends of 2024 cyber-criminals and nation state actors will use to impact organizations the most in 2025? Will internation law enforcement continue to increase the pressure on threat actors? Will the new American administration change their anti-cybercrime strategy in 2025? Join Ian Thornton-Trump CD, CISO for Inversion6 UK as he discusses these key issues in a “Threat Landscape Brief for 2025” as a bespoke presentation for your industry vertical, Having spent the past five years as a CISO for a UK based threat intelligence company before joining Inverision6 to expand TRG solutions MSP offerings into a bespoke MSSP security offering, Ian has observed interesting trends in nation state and criminal threat actor behaviours. Also of interest are some changes in the strategy taken by international law enforcement to combat those threats. The context of nation state policy and cyber-criminal activity when overlayed with demographic and global climate change data presents a compelling long-term picture – with some valuable takeaways. Discover what everyone will be talking about when it comes to organizational risk from the dynamically expanding threat landscape of 2025 and beyond.

More talks

• Cybercrime, Demographics & Geopolitics
• Cryptocurrency crime
• Threat Intelligence
• Cyber Crime
• High Speed Money Laundering
• Zero Trust Architecture
• Cyber Security Litigation and Regulation
• Criminal Uses of AI & Crypto Currency
• Ransomware

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