In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod are joined again by Pete Cooper and Irene Pontisso of the UK Cabinet Office for a follow-up on the cybersecurity culture challenge they launched in 2021. Pete and Irene run us through the results, what kinds of interventions participants came up with, and what has them excited about building a more resilient government security culture in the years to come.
Stick around for our Rapid Rundown, where Tod and Jen talk about a recent write-up that takes a deep dive into a curious form of phishing: pig-butchering scams. Spoiler: They have nothing to do with actual pigs but everything to do with highly specific text messages from numbers you don’t recognize.
Pete Cooper
Pete is Deputy Director Cyber Defence within the Government Security Group in the UK Cabinet Office where he looks over the whole of the Government sector and is responsible for the Government Cyber Security Strategy, standards, and policies, as well as responding to serious or cross-government cyber incidents. With a diverse military, private sector, and government background, he has worked on everything ranging from cyber operations, global cybersecurity strategies, advising on the nature of state-versus-state cyber conflict to leading cybersecurity change across industry, public sector and the global hacker community, including founding and leading the Aerospace Village at DEF CON. A fast jet pilot turned cyber operations advisor, who on leaving the military in 2016 founded the UK’s first multi-disciplinary cyber strategy competition, he is passionate about tackling national and international cybersecurity challenges through better collaboration, diversity, and innovative partnerships. He has a Post Grad in Cyberspace Operations from Cranfield University. He is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Cyber Statecraft Initiative of the Scowcroft Centre for Strategy and Secur ..
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