The Cyber Security Podcast from PwC UK

In this episode, we’re joined by our UK Cyber Security Chair, Richard Horne and UK Cyber Security Director, Laura Duncan to discuss:

• What is a heightened state of cyber alert?
• How do you assess your vulnerability and respond to different levels of cyber alert?
• What scenarios do you need to plan for and what actions should you prioritise?
• How do you embed cyber resilience across your organisation and people - and how do you manage security fatigue in a prolonged heightened state of alert?

Louise Taggart chats to Matt Wixey, threat and vulnerability consultant at PwC UK, about his cutting-edge research into emerging cyber threats to organisations. Find out more about the latest techniques being used by hackers to bypass security mechanisms, involving light and sound.

How prepared are you to respond to a ransomware attack? In this episode our host Chloe Seaton is joined by Fran Thompson from the Irish HSE and Pat Moran from PwC Ireland to discuss key lessons all organisations can learn from the ransomware attack on the Irish HSE in May 2021. The discussion covers crisis response in the heat of a ransomware attack, tackling the challenges of business recovery and bringing systems back online, why organisations need to understand the extent of the dependence of their critical services on technology, and how to boost cyber security preparedness and build ransomware resilience.

Abigail Wilson is joined by Will Semple and Stephen Morrow to chat about untrusted applications and discuss the issue of how big a risk third party software is to your business.

Our new host Abigail Wilson is joined by Derek Gordon and Daisy McCartney to chat about both the technological and cultural sides of authentication, and why it is passwords and not people that are the weakest link in the security chain.