Swansea City was pleased to host the first City Business Network (CBN) event of 2024, titled ‘Defend & Attack – protecting your digital landscape’.

The event was hosted by Mal Pope on Tuesday 5 March at the Swansea.com Stadium.

Attendees were joined by guest speaker Greg van der Gaast, infamous hacker, turned undercover FBI operative. An advisor, CISO, author, mentor, and speaker, Greg was once cited as one of the world’s five most notorious hackers and worked undercover for the US FBI and DoD for three years after setting off an international incident by breaking into a nuclear weapons facility.

Greg also spoke about cybersecurity trends and why security fails, the importance of strategy, leadership and culture in IT and security and rethinking the security skillset.

We were also joined by Ian Owen, group sales director of Owens Group, who shared his experiences of cyber security within one of the UK’s leading family-owned Transport, Warehousing & Distribution companies.

As an established industry leader, Damon Rands, Founder and CEO of PureCyber, provided information on practical steps that all businesses can take to mitigate risk and strengthen cyber resilience.