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 will be leading a technical masterclass about Threat Modeling at the UK government flagship cyber security event.
At CYBERUK 2023, we will look to answer some of the most challenging questions facing the international cyber community today: • What will cyberspace be like in ten years’ time? • Will we be able to secure it so it remains free, open and democratic? • Will we have nurtured and grown the talent needed? • Will we have innovated and built the technologies that underpin our values? • Will we have predicted and mitigated the risks and vulnerabilities? • Will we be resilient to the threats?