The Cyber Security Podcast from PwC UK PwC UK

In this episode, our new host Chloe Seaton is joined by Lucie Usher, EMEA Intelligence Officer for FS-ISAC and Luc Manfredi, a Director in our Cyber Security team in the UK to discuss what is driving cyber resilience up the regulatory agenda in sectors such as financial services, energy and utilities; the key cyber risks for organisations in regulated sectors, including supply chain attacks, the growing use of operational technology in industrial operations and geopolitical unrest; how the regulatory landscape is evolving around cyber resilience - nationally and globally; and what organisations in regulated sectors can do to increase cyber resilience and ensure compliance through greater information sharing, rigorous self-assessment and continuous exercising and testing.
-What is driving cyber resilience up the regulatory agenda in sectors such as financial services, energy and utilities
-The key cyber risks for organisations in regulated sectors, including supply chain attacks, the growing use of operational technology in industrial operations and geopolitical unrest.
-How the regulatory landscape is evolving around cyber resilience - nationally and globally - and what does this mean for organisations
-What organisations in regulated sectors can do to increase cyber resilience and ensure compliance, including greater information sharing, rigorous self-assessment and continuous exercising and testing.

In this episode, we’re joined by our UK Cyber Security Chair, Richard Horne and UK Cyber Security Director, Laura Duncan to discuss:

What is a heightened state of cyber alert?
How do you assess your vulnerability and respond to different levels of cyber alert?
What scenarios do you need to plan for and what actions should you prioritise?
How do you embed cyber resilience across your organisation and people - and how do you manage security fatigue in a prolonged heightened state of alert?

In this episode we’re joined by Kevin Storli and Phil Venables to look at the changing role of the chief information security officer (CISO). We discuss:

1. How they’ve seen the role of the CISO change over their careers.
2. How CISOs can mitigate security risks while enabling their organisation to achieve its goals.
3. Current areas of concern, including supply chain risk and securing the cloud.
4. What they look for when hiring and the skills CISOs need to recruit for over the next few years.

Host: Abigail Wilson, Cyber Threat Operations Manager, PwC UK
Guest: Kevin Storli, Global CTO and UK Chief Information Security Officer, PwC
Guest: Phil Venables, Chief Information Security Officer, Google Cloud

In this episode we’re joined by Sean Sutton and Cara Haffey to discuss how organisations can secure their operational technology (OT). We discuss:

1. How OT security differs from IT security.
2. Threats we’ve seen targeting operational technology, with a focus on the manufacturing sector.
3. Steps you can take to tackle threats and build resilient operations.

Host: Abigail Wilson, Cyber Threat Operations Manager, PwC UK
Guest: Sean Sutton, Cyber Security Partner, PwC UK
Guest: Cara Haffey, UK Industrial Manufacturing Leader, PwC UK

In this episode we’re joined by Richard Horne to discuss how CEOs can reduce complexity and make their organisations more securable.

We discuss: whether CEOs are taking enough of a role in tackling cyber risk; how embracing simplicity can benefit their organisations; how CEOs can embed cyber security into transformation plans.

Host: Abigail Wilson, Cyber Threat Operations Manager, PwC UK
Guest: Richard Horne, UK Cyber Security Chair, PwC UK

In this episode we’re joined by Kris McConkey and Krystle Reid to discuss the latest cyber threats you need to defend against. We cover:
- the key threat trends from last year
- threats we expect to be prominent in 2021, including cyber risk considerations around the hybrid working mode
- how organisations can combat these threats.

Host: Abigail Wilson, Cyber Threat Operations Manager, PwC UK

Guest: Kris McConkey, Cyber Threat Operations Lead Partner, PwC UK
Guest: Krystle Reid, Threat Intelligence Manager, PwC UK