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Keynote SpeakerGraham Cluley

Award Winning Computer Security Analyst

Graham Cluley is an award-winning independent cybersecurity and AI keynote speaker,podcaster, and writer. He has been a well-known figure in the computer security industry since the early 1990s when he programmed the first ever version of Dr Solomon’s AnO-Virus Toolkit for Windows. He has held senior roles in major cybersecurity... Read more

Biography

Graham Cluley is an award-winning independent cybersecurity and AI keynote speaker,podcaster, and writer. He has been a well-known figure in the computer security industry since the early 1990s when he programmed the first ever version of Dr Solomon’s AnO-Virus Toolkit for Windows.

He has held senior roles in major cybersecurity companies such as Sophos and McAfee, working with law enforcement agencies on invesOgaOons into hacking groups, and has regularly appeared on TV and radio explaining computer security threats. As a leading authority, Graham Cluley speaks at industry conferences, and helps raise awareness of AI and cybersecurity for some of the world’s largest companies.

Graham Cluley was inducted into the InfoSecurity Hall of Fame in 2011, and he has been recognised as the originator of the saying that “the cloud is just someone else’s computer” (but he hasn’t managed to make any money out of it) Graham can be heard each week on the award-winning “Smashing Security” and “The AI Fix” podcasts.

Popular Talks by Graham Cluley

  • Unbelievable stories of cyberhorror

    Graham Cluley explores some of the surprising and unusual ways that companies have been hacked, and the craziest things tech companies have done to put our data at risk. Learn about the company that claimed it had been hacked but hadn’t… all for publicity! (And boy, they got it…).

  • Stealing the Crown Jewels

    In 1671, Colonel Thomas Blood broke into what should have been the safest place on Earth – the Tower of London – and managed to steal the Crown Jewels. Today it sounds like an adventure story, but there are lessons that all organisations can learn from this, and other heists...

  • 30 years of cybercrime in 30 minutes

    From back bedrooms to boardrooms, Graham Cluley describes how cybercrime turned from a schoolboy prank into a threat able to steal secrets from governments, disrupt Iranian nuclear facilities, and even help secret agents assassinate their opponents. Graham draws on his 30-year history within the industry to explain who the malware...

  • The current state of cyber crime
  • The evolution of malware from teenagers writing it in back bedrooms to organised criminals to state-sponsored espionage
  • Threats posed by the internet of things
  • Attacks on industrial control systems and energy grids
  • How criminals can defraud millions out of companies with a single email