Tuesday 8 July 2025, 9.30am – 3.30pm (BST)
In person – Newport, Wales
In association with
Our organisations are all underpinned and dependent on technology and information, which means managing the associated risks effectively could be the difference between surviving an incident or being buried by it. Yet as we consider our digital resilience, we often overlook the critical role of people. Automation may be front of mind for many businesses, but people remain at the heart of automation (who installs and sets the automation rules?), and our people remain primary targets for attackers. Focussing on our people and cutting through the bureaucratic silos we’ve created remains one of the most effective ways to defend ourselves.
We were delighted to return to Newport for our Wales SASIG event. Once again, we were hosted by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO), an organisation that fully understands the sensitivity of the data it manages. This event explored the ways we can manage and protect our people and data, and develop our understanding of and ways to reduce the impact of insider threats. Attackers don’t distinguish between internal boundaries or silos, they simply seek out vulnerabilities wherever they exist; and too often, those vulnerabilities are the ones we create ourselves.
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Presentations on the day included:
Welcome and introductions
Jon Cox (info), Chief Security Officer, IPO
Keynote presentation: Over 80% of UK nation-state cyber capability is in, or near, Wales – Why?
Dr John Davies MBE (info), Co-Founder and Chair, Cyber Wales
Delivering metrics that matter
Lucy Finlay (info), Director – Secure Behaviour and Analytics, Think Cyber
Defending against insider threats with a behaviour-based approach
Graham Bogle (info), Regional Sales Manager, Exabeam
Communicating risk and securing your data
Nick Palmer (info), Technical Director, Censys
Panel session: The enemy within – The conscious and unconscious insider
Facilitated by Jon Cox (info), Chief Security Officer, IPO
David Miles (info), Director of Product Management, Arctic Wolf
John Taylor (info), Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London
Lucy Finlay (info), Director – Secure Behaviour and Analytics, Think Cyber
Panel session: Breaking down the barriers between physical and virtual security
Facilitated by Jon Cox (info), Chief Security Officer, IPO
Chris Brown (info), Associate Director – Cyber Security, Bridewell
Tom O’Driscoll (info), Head of Security Operations and Intelligence, National Highways
Joe Tommany, Lead Security Architect, IPO
Secure by design: Embedding security from the start
Scott McKinnon (info), Field Chief Security Officer, Palo Alto Networks
All SASIG events operate under the Chatham House Rule and there is no charge to attend. Refreshments and lunch were kindly provided by our hosts.
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