Of all the speakers at ST17 Scotland, at the Glasgow Hilton on Tuesday morning, September 5, Mike Gillespie needs the least introducing. He was after all the chairman at the previous ST conference, at the Majestic in Harrogate in July.
As an editorial board member of Professional Security magazine, Mike (pictured right, shaking hands with Professional Security MD Roy Cooper) has written regularly on cyber and information security topics. You can read him in the blogs part of this website; most recently, in the September 2017 print issue of the magazine, he has turned to the principles of cyber security for connected and automated vehicles, issued by the UK Government on August 6; and wondered if we need to be talking about health and safety, not security, when it comes to the Internet of Things (IoT), given the prospect of hacking into a car’s system could mean that a hacker brakes or accelerates a vehicle, a natural risk to safety of the occupants and others.
For example, the buildings that we use, work and live in are becoming ever more ‘smart’, that managers can run from anywhere. But is the price we have to pay, for that ability to run and manage buildings, massively increased risk? he asks.
Briefly about Mike; this summer he enjoyed a day at the ITN studios to take part in cyber security interviews, as a director of the Security Institute. His company, set up in 2002, is Midlands-based Advent IM; that also has offices in London. The consultancy decribes its focus as on ‘holistic security management’; that covers information, people and physical assets. The firm has a longstanding relationship with the Crown Commercial Service platform, G-Cloud, that has continued into this year’s latest iteration, G-Cloud 9, whereby public bodies can directly procure services without need for a comprehensive tender process.
The conference will also hear manufacturer updates from Anixter, Seagate, Hanwha Techwin and Hikvision and the conference will be chaired by Security TWENTY regular Mike White, of G4S, who was last in the chair at ST17 Ireland in Dublin in April.
Like all ST events, Scotland’s is free to attend, and you can just turn up on the day, although organisers ask that you register online beforehand, to help gauge numbers to cater for. For the full line-up of speakers, from 9.30am to 1.30pm, and exhibitors, visit https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/security-events-and-conferences/security-twenty-home/st17-scotland/. Other speakers include Security Industry Authority (SIA) Chair Liz France CBE, Maxine Fraser of Retailers Against Crime, Dr Declan Garrett, security manager of the National Gallery of Ireland, and Paul Grainge security manager at PD Ports in Middlesbrough.
Advent IM also blogs regularly on cyber and info-security and related subjects such as the ‘insider’ threat.
