Simon Whittaker
Simon has been working in the IT industry for over 20 years, and co-founded Vertical Structure with Marc Dowie in 2006.
He has extensive experience helping companies understand how to grapple with the challenge of protecting themselves from threats and helping clients find solutions to their cyber security problems.
He helps organisations to understand their current security posture, their future goals and outlining how to achieve those goals. This includes working with companies on a long-term basis using coaching and mentoring techniques to help drive process improvement and provide external feedback.
Simon is a prolific public speaker. Recent presentations and panel sessions include “Protecting Manufacturing Assets from the increasing cybercrime threat - strategies to minimise cyber-attack”, and “Vulnerability reporting - the good, the bad and the ugly” at the ONE Conference 2021 in the Netherlands.
Simon is host of the CyberTuesday® podcast
