The Skills Gap: Building and retaining strong cyber teams
Date & Time
Tuesday 16 July 2024
09:30 - 15:00
Location
Coram Campus, 41 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ
Pricing
General Admission £0
The Skills Gap: Building and retaining strong cyber teams
The event is now full to capacity, please register for our waitlist.
Explore effective team-building strategies, enhance hiring practices, and learn to develop and retain valuable employees.
The skills gap remains a significant issue within the cyber industry.
A recent study by Security Brief UK revealed that "71% of organisations have been impacted by the cyber security skills shortage, an increase from the 57% reported previously. This has resulted in heavier workloads for cyber security teams (61%), unfulfilled job vacancies (49%), and elevated staff burnout rates (43%)."
Attend a day of panels and discussions on constructing and maintaining teams to safeguard your organisation.
The event is complimentary, with lunch and refreshments included. Registration is subject to approval, so please await your confirmation email.
We’ll be covering:
- Keynote presentation from Fortra
- Ensuring diversity in the hiring process
- Recruiting skills you actually need
- How are you structuring your profession / developing your teams
- And more to be announced
Who is this event for?
- CISO’s
- Hiring managers
- Cyber HR Professionals
- Mid-senior level Cyber Security Professionals
Agenda
| 09:30 | Registration, refreshments and networking |
| 10:00 | Welcome and introduction Dr Claudia Natanson MBE, Interim CEO - UK Cyber Security Council |
| 10:15 |
Opening Keynote from our Sponsor Josh Davies, Principal Technical Product Marketing Manager at Fortra |
| 10:45 | Panel session: Ensuring diversity in the hiring process Facilitated by Dr Claudia Natanson MBE With panellists: Holly Foxcroft, Head of Neurodiversity Consulting and Cyber Research - Stott and May Consulting Amelia Hewitt, Founder - CybAid and Director, Hewitt Partnerships Jitender Arora, Partner - NSE & UK CISO | Global Deputy CISO - Deloitte LL |
| 11:30 | Break |
| 11:45 |
How to recruit the skills you actually need James Walsh, Head of Cyber - Hays |
| 12:15 |
Panel session: How are you structuring your profession and developing your teams Facilitated by: Sonja Lewis, Head of Careers and Qualifications - UK Cyber Security Council With panellists: Sam Kirby-French, Head of Cyber Security Programmes - BAE Systems Alister Shepherd, CISO and Internal AI Lead - FCA Debra Roberts, Flight Sergeant Cyberspace Profession Implementation Team - Ministry of Defence Anthony Benham, Head of Cyber Security Profession - Home Office |
| 13:00 | Break |
| 13:15 |
The Skills Gap – A CISO’s Perspective Heather Lowrie, CISO - Manchester University |
| 13:45 | Closing thoughts and thank you |
| 14:00 | Lunch and networking |
| 15:00 | End of event |