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.
How and when is the best time to integrate security within the development lifecycle? We’ll bring forward stories and experiences of good practice and bad to highlight the issues which software delivery teams encounter.
Updated methods of development and deployment require updated security thinking to get technology live quickly and effectively and with reduced risks. In many cases the answer is less technology and more knowledge and power being provided to teams but with effective control, conversation and support from security teams.