It's Cyber Up North – Details, episodes & analysis

In the first episode of 2025, Danielle Phillips and Phil Jackman explore some to the exciting things that are happening in CyberNorth. Find out more at www.cybernorth.biz

In this episode, Thea from CyberNorth meets with Nicola Taylor from ScotlandIS to talk about its work on nurturing future talent in cyber security and, in particular its focus on the Experience Gap.

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October is CyberFest - book your tickets now!

In this episode Danielle Phillips leads the discussion with Matt Hewison from CyberWhite and Phil Jackman. Matt talks to us about the Cyber Intelligence Alliance and the role it plays in the amazing North East cyber sector.

You can find out more about the work of CyberNorth, including upcoming events at www.cybernorth.biz

In this week's episode Phil Jackman and Andrew Pounder of Cyber North talk to Nick Kelsey of Cyber First North East and Janine Marshall of RTC North about Cyber First and some of the very best industry and education engagement programmes here in the North East.

CyberNorth's annual jamboree of all things cyber related is almost upon us. In this weeks episode Phil Jackman and Danielle Philips discuss the upcoming CyberFest with Igor Kotsiuba from Durham University Business School and Stuart Hogg from Waterstons.

Full details of all the events are on the CyberNorth website

This episode was recorded at the recent Women into Cyber event at Gateshead College before a live audience. Danielle Phillips talks to Annabel Berry, head of The Ladies Hacking Society and recently appointed Chair of Cyber North with a short Q&A session with the audince.

Northumbrian Water’s Innovation Festival

This week Phil and Danielle talks to guests Anthony Smith from Northumbrian Water, Wayne Bryant from the Super Network and Ashmita Randhawa from Sunderland Software City about the forthcoming Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival.

This year's festival is 10-13th July 2023 at its usual venue of Newcastle Racecourse and this year’s theme – CITIZENS – has been chosen with our community spirit and people at the absolute heart of it.

#CyberFest 2023

CyberNorth's own festival is this year sponsored by Aspire Technology Solutions. The main event will be held at St.James' Park home of Newcastle United FC. on the 26th September 2023. Tickets and further detail of the festival can be found on the CyberNorth website.

In this week's episode Phil Jackman and Kimberly Hendry talk with Alycia Rumney a recent graduate from the CAPSLOCK program about the ongoing debacle of the CAPITA breach and spear fishing, with personal examples of how cyber crime can affect an individual, "it's not a victimless crime".

Neurodivergence in Cyber Security: Diversity in the workplace means more than gender or cultural issues and increasingly the information space needs a broader range of diversity in the workplace to not just represent and reflect society but in order to approach ever more complex problems especially in AI and Cyber Security.

This week's guests are Adam Pickering, Director - Cyber Security, CGI; Yvonne Charrot, Diversity Inclusion and Wellbeing Manager, the IASME Consortium and Jonathan Ellwood, Head of Assure Schemes, Visiting Fellow University of Gloucestershire.

In this week's episode Phil Jackman and Kimberly Hendry chat with Kathryn Cardose from the North East Ladies Hacking Society about some of the current cyber security issues in the news including the leaks of security intel by the the American Air National Guard Intelligence Unit's Jack Teixeira as well as more mundane issues like phishing, passwords and 2FA, still affecting organisations at home here in the UK.