Speaking

As an enthusiastic member of the security and data analytics community, I have been asked on a number of occasions to speak at user groups, conferences and other events.

The below represents many of the presentations and associated slides decks where they have been recorded and maintained.

Presentations

Hunting Hard, Failing Fast, Maintaining Integrity

Big Data for Cybersecurity Conference, May 2018

Human Vulnerability: Truths & Lessons

Security Scotland Meet Up, May 2018

Splunk Enterprise Security Content Updates

Splunk User Group Edinburgh, May 2018

Securing the Cloud (AWS) with Splunk

Splunk User Group Edinburgh, August 2017

Deconstructing the SIEM Platform

Security Scotland Meetup, August 2017

International Conference on Big Data and Cyber Security, May 2017

User Behavioural Analytics (UBA): Machine Learning for Threat Detection

International Conference on Big Data and Cyber Security, May 2016

Slide Decks

2018

2017

2016

  • Splunk IT operations & use case development
    The slides used at the November 2016 Splunk User Group Edinburgh session to cover the topics of IT operations using Splunk IT Service Intelligence and explaining the importance of Use Case Development following set processes and procedures. 
  • Splunk deployment & security
    The slides used at the September 2016 Splunk User Group Edinburgh session to cover the topics of large-scale Splunk deployments and how to secure Splunk within an enterprise. 
  • User Behavioural Analytics (UBA): Machine Learning for threat detection
    The slides used at the May 2016 Big Data Scotland event in Edinburgh held in to cover User Behavioural Analytics and using it to detect network and host-based attacks.