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My interview with ITPro on employers facing difficulties in meeting the salary expectations of skilled cybersecurity professionals, balancing qualifications with practical experience, and retaining talent.

My interview with Tagesspiegal on the UK government facing strong criticism from the National Security Strategy Committee over a lack of investment in cybersecurity.

My interview with ITPro on the The BlackCat ransomware gang which initially infiltrate networks using the Emotet botnet and Log4Shell vulnerability and redirect users to malware-laden pages via hijacked legitimate websites.

My interview with ITPro on how those with the cyber security skills that businesses need are in short supply, despite the UK’s cyber sector seeing a 10% jump in its workforce over the past 12 months.

My interview with ITPro on the potential of AI to significantly impact and influence the way organisations protect themselves in the coming years.

My interview in Tech Informed on the characteristics and methods used by LockBit, Clop and other emerging Ransomware threat actors.

My interview with Tech Informed in part 1 of a 2 part series on how the notorious ransomware gangs BlackCat, Cl0p, and Lockbit operate.

My interview on BBC Radio Ulster Talkback programme about whether Artificial Intelligence (especially GenAI) should have become the TIME magazine ‘Person of the year’ instead of the musician Taylor Swift.

My interview with BBC Radio Foyle on the OpenAI board sacking Sam Altman, network roaming fees and insecure passwords.

My interview with ITPro on how Ransomware remains one of the biggest threats to critical national infrastructure with attacks increasing tenfold and in severity.