Simon Whittaker

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

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Under the Microscope: A Cybersecurity Pro’s Encounter with Wannacry CorkSec - August 24 August 2024
Under the Microscope: A Cybersecurity Pro’s Encounter with Wannacry CorkSec August 2024
Vertical Structure CEO Simon Whittaker discusses Crowdstrike issue in live SkyNews interview Vertical Structure CEO Simon Whittaker discusses Crowdstrike issue in live SkyNews interview July 2024
Vertical Structure CEO, Simon Whittaker, discusses the Synnovis issue Vertical Structure CEO, Simon Whittaker, talks to Jonathan Samuels on the evening SkyNews about sensitive nature of the data that has been published and the ongoing problem that is ransomware. June 2024
Session 4: Intellectual Property - Success in a Changing Landscape UK/US SME Dialogue April 2024
Cyber Security for Contractors ETT’s NI Industry Event November 2023
Threat Modeling – The Art & Craft - A technical Masterclass CyberUK April 2023
Stream A, session 4: Northern Ireland insights - Creating a future cyber education ecosystem CyberUK April 2023
NICyber Breakfast - Artificial Intelligence - cyber security’s friend or foe? CyberUK April 2023
Future-Forward Cyber Security Public Sector Cyber Security Northern Ireland 2023 January 2023
Essential roles for startups DigitalDNA June 2022
The Future of Fintech: The next big thing? DigitalDNA June 2022
Security Stories Beltech 2022 April 2022
Cyber Security Careers Cyber Security careers March 2022
Introducing NICyber as part of the UK Cyber Security Centre Northern Ireland DCMS Consultation Presentation Roadshow February 2022
Cyber Runway Accelerator Panel discussing Clustering Cyber Runway Regional Event Panel January 2022
Strategies to minimise cyber-attack, from a moderated panel of Cyber experts Protecting Manufacturing Assets from the increasing Cybercrime Threat September 2021
Vulnerability reporting - the good, the bad and the ugly ONE Conference 2021 September 2021
Compromising your cloud services for fun and profit Liverpool Software Developers Meetup: Let’s talk Cyber Security August 2021
How to manage a ransomware attack Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce June 2021
Building Cyber Security and Compliance into your Start-up Building Cyber Security and Compliance into your Start-up April 2021
Panel discussing opportunities in Northern Ireland US-UK TECH OPPORTUNITIES: A LOOK AT BREXIT, UK-US FREE TRADE AGREEMENT NEGOTIATIONS, AND EXPANSION OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLORADO TECH April 2021
Cyber Security for everyone Raise Ventures - Tech For Non Tech | Cybersecurity January 2021
AWS and IAM Liverpool Software Developer’s Meetup January 2021
Securing Fintech SECURING FINTECH November 2020
Cyber Security: What Your Business Needs to Know LCCC: Cyber Security Webinar - Protecting Your Business July 2020
OUTSOURCING, 3rd PARTY AND SUPPLY CHAIN RISK Evolve Resilience July 2020
OUTSOURCING, 3rd PARTY AND SUPPLY CHAIN RISK OUTSOURCING, 3rd PARTY AND SUPPLY CHAIN RISK July 2020
NI Cyber and Fintech NI NICyber Webinar July 2020
Cyber Security: What Your Business Needs to Know Cyber Security Webinar June 2020
COVID-19 Webinar: Back to the Workplace - the key legal issues NICyber Webinar June 2020
NICyber CTF NICyber Webinar June 2020
Easy Privilege Escalation in AWS nxnwTech V - Cyber June 2020
What is the OWASP Top 10 …. and why does it matter? With Rapid7 and OWASP Belfast. NICyber Webinar June 2020
Cyber Security The Community & Voluntary Sector NICVA - Cyber security webinar May 2020
Building Operational Resilience fscom webinar May 2020
Finding New Business Opportunities During Covid-19 NICyber Webinar April 2020
Payments and Pandemic - An updated look at the regulatory landscape Payments and Pandemic - An updated look at the regulatory landscape April 2020
Social distancing ≠ behaving distantly: growing the team & training clients remotely” NICyber Webinar April 2020
Remote working: how to work securely from home NI Cyber Webinar March 2020
10 things every organisation can do to protect themselves, their data and their employees Arts & Business NI November 2019
Cyber security: 3 things every Board should know to protect themselves and their employees Governance Now November 2019
Cloud application and infrastructure security RebelCon June 2019
Career conversations with women in cybersecurity Digital DNA June 2019
10 things every organisation can do to protect themselves, their data and their employees A&B NI 2nd Annual Governance Conference – ‘Navigating the New Normal’ June 2019
Compromising AWS for fun and profit Northern Ireland Developer Conference June 2019
Compromising AWS® for fun and profit Tech Connect Live Conference May 2019
Cyber Security Industry in NI BBC Cyber Skills Discussion May 2019
Security Issues in the crypto world 4IRC Crypto-Assets: What are the challenges to wide spread adoption? April 2019
Cyber Security Skills gap and Brexit uncertainty Discussion on BBC Radio Ulster March 2019

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