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In this episode, Glenn is at the annual ITC Secure Cyber Summit where he caught up with co-founder of IronNet Cybersecurity, Major General Brett Williams.As a leading American authority on cyber security, we discuss how the Major General went from flying F15 fighter jets, to helping whole industries secure themselves with the power of the first automated collective defence system, the "Iron Dome".

This week Glenn and Richard speak with Rob Embers who is the CCO at Dionach and an Advisory Board Member at CREST in the USA.We discuss the differences in penetration testing techniques and perceptions both in the UK and in the USA. We also share our experiences of the real life consequences when things wrong in the digital world. Rob also provides some advise on the best ways to break into the world of penetration testing and the Dionach graduate program.

This week Glenn speaks with veteran information security researcher Adrian Sanabria from Thinnkst research. We discuss how common assumptions and mis-truths have perpetuated confusion in the information security sector. Are 90% of breaches really caused by phishing? How many companies really do go out of business following a breach? We also discuss the theory and practice of “honey potting”.

This week Glenn sat down with Jai Aenugu, CEO and Founder of Aberdeen based Information Security services company “The Tech Force”. They discuss the infamous “cyber security skills gap” and how The Tech Force Sponsorship programme is helping to entice new talent to join the information security industry.