Ollie Whitehouse is the founder BinaryFirefly a boutique British cyber advisory firm with a career spanning over 25 years in applied cyber attack and defence. Ollie’s portfolio of advisory positions today includes science advisory positions for UK Government as a member of the Science Advisory Councils for the Home Office and Police, Industry 100 within the National Cyber Security Centre and various Non-Executive Directorships. His operational tenures include over ten and half years at NCC Group where he was Group CTO until the end of 2022, BlackBerry and Symantec. Ollie has given oral evidence to the UK Parliament Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy twice in 2017 and 2022 on matters related to cyber security.
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2:00 – Career and dot com
3:00 – Pen-testing and philosophy
5:00 – Business and Cybersecurity and role of the cyber NED
9:00 – CISO
10:00 – Executive understanding
12:00 – Cybersecurity technicalities – Pen tests and regulation
16:00 – Cybersecurity and regulation in the USA
19:00 – SBOM, Digital Software supply chain
22:00 – Regulators, Board and how they think
26:00 – Assets, different opinions based on generation
30:00 – Non exec hands-on startups vs later stage
35:00 – policy and frameworks, and assessing, quantifying the net value of a control
40:00 – Software vs infrastructure breach why more on software
42:00 – scaling attacks with automation
46:00 – the business perspective
47:00 – Positive message
Ollie Whitehouse
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