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Invite me to an event

1 minute to read
Wednesday, 1st of March 2017

I have been speaking in events since 2009, and I was delivering undergraduate and postgraduate classes in Computer Science, Network Application programming and Security from 2001 to 2006.

Most of my presentations are posted in this blog, although I may have forgotten / lost some.

If you want me to talk in your event about security and risk management, feel free to send me a mail. My contact details are here.

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Me elsewhere

1 minute to read
Tuesday, 28th of February 2017
- leadership
- security

Sometimes I give interviews, or publish case studies or write articles elsewhere.

Here is what I can remember, in reverse chronological order

In 2023, my article on Third Party Risk Management The Security Blind Spot No One Wants to Discuss was published at ISACA Industry News
In 2023 I recorded a podcast for NDK Cyber Secure Insights
In 2020 I participated in Info-Tech''s strategy research on "The first 100 days as CISO"
In 2018 my opinion on why CISOs not heard by the boards is a bad idea was published on Infosecurity magazine
In 2018 Kevin Williams and I had a brief interaction which resulted in my opinions on biometrics to be considered
In 2018 I wrote an article for SpeakUp at Work about the expectation of privacy
In 2010 the usage of PandoraFMS (open source monitoring solution) in G4S was worth a case study here
Between 1998 and 2001 I was the editor-in-chief, responsible for the Question and Answers section of the Greek online Magazine and wrote several articles about Linux. They are all in Greek :
- March 2001 Linux Intrusion Detection System
- October 2000 Setting up Linux From Scratch part 2
- October 2000 Setting up Linux From Scratch part 1
- September 2000 Bash tutorial
- July 2000 Interview with Eric S. Raymond on OpenSource
- June 2000 Perl DBI tutorial part 2
- April 2000 Perl DBI tutorial part 1
- October 1999 Setting up RAID
- August 1999 August SGML editor review
- May 1999 KDevelop review
- March 1999: SySV boot process
- July 1998: XISP setup for Greek ISPs
- June 1998: Tutorial for XISP
- April 1998: Second part of StarOffice presentation
- March 1998: First part of StarOffice 4.0 presentation - what later became OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice
- February 1998: Market situation
- February 1998: SMB configuration

Recruitment: A failed industry?

6 minutes to read
Wednesday, 15th of February 2017

The discussion about talent and skill shortage in areas such as IT and mainly Information or Cyber Security is getting significantly more intense. At the same time, the unemployment in EU ranges from 5% to 25% (1). And the usual time to fill a position is over 3 months, in cases can reach even to a year (2), with just the interview process to be close to one month in most countries (3, 4). These are alarming indicators about how effective the recruiting industry is - or is not.

Mobile Application Infrastructure Security

1 minute to read
Wednesday, 19th of October 2016

In October of 2016 I travelled to Dublin in Ireland, to present at the two-day event organized by (ISC)2. I took advantage of the pre-congress workshops which were eye - opening in many aspects. The event, (ISC2) Security Congress EMEA 2016, titled "Advancing Security Leaders" took place at the Croke Park Stadium and it was a huge success.

Diligence: the new cybergame

4 minutes to read
Wednesday, 5th of October 2016

Significant changes are coming to the cyber security and data privacy landscape. I would consider these to be potentially game changers as they may alter the way organizations address their security posture and preparations.

Stop remembering passwords

3 minutes to read
Sunday, 3rd of April 2016

What do you do with your passwords? Are you one of the persons who are using a password manager for their web sites' credentials? Yes, me too.

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