James Mckinlay's guest appearances

James Mckinlay

Human Factor Security

Hacked Off

Andrea Cullen

Alyssa Miller

Ian Murphy

Dominic Vogel

Peter Taylor

Evan Jones

Allison Miller

Mike Jones

Chris Hadnagy

Mark Carney

Andy Gill

Rachel Tobac

Benjamin Dennehy

Christian Toon

Martin Smith

OwlTail

Is your antivirus working for you? It wasn't for James Mckinlay, the Group Information Security Officer at Barbican Insurance, so he made the controversial decision to switch it off! James discusses why he made this decision and infrastructure he built to replace it.Key points: 1'18 The decision to turn off antivirus2'35 Alternatives to antivirus4'10 Application whitelisting 13'28 Cyber Essentials16'53 To patch or not to patch23'00 Other things we turned off34'50 Not everyone should switch their antivirus off!Download on iTunes: apple.co/2Ji61EkListening time: 40 minutesHosted by: Holly Grace Williams | Technical Director at SecarmaGuest: James Mckinlay | Group Information Security Officer at Barbican Insurance

Is your antivirus working for you? It wasn't for James Mckinlay, the Group Information Security Officer at Barbican Insurance, so he made the controversial decision to switch it off! James discusses why he made this decision and infrastructure he built to replace it. Key points: 1'18 The decision to turn off antivirus 2'35 Alternatives to antivirus 4'10 Application whitelisting 13'28 Cyber Essentials 16'53 To patch or not to patch 23'00 Other things we turned off 34'50 Not everyone should switch their antivirus off! Download on iTunes: <a href="http://apple.co/2Ji61Ek" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">apple.co/2Ji61Ek</a> Listening time: 40 minutes Hosted by: Holly Grace Williams | Technical Director at Secarma Guest: James Mckinlay | Group Information Security Officer at Barbican Insurance

049. James Mckinlay: Why I turned antivirus off!

James has an 18-year career in IT, with eight years in roles within financial services. Using his specialist knowledge he is able to produce working information security policies and procedures from international standards and frameworks such as CIS, NIST, NSA-IA, AusDSD and NESA-IAS. As a proponent for educating staff in appropriate ways depending on their level and position, he advocates a culture of all working together to help make an organisation safe.  Jame's LinkedIn profile can be found by clicking the link here.  To see the Whizkids click the link here.  RiskyBusiness Episode 471 can be heard by clicking the link here.  Incident Prevention and Incident Response Slideshow can be viewed here by clicking the link here.  The Cuckoo's Egg (Cliff Stoll)  The Phoenix Project Don't forget, to get in touch with me either try the contact page of the site or follow me on Twitter, where I can be found at @Jenny_Radcliffe  

James has an 18-year career in IT, with eight years in roles within financial services. Using his specialist knowledge he is able to produce working information security policies and procedures from international standards and frameworks such as CIS, NIST, NSA-IA, AusDSD and NESA-IAS. As a proponent for educating staff in appropriate ways depending on their level and position, he advocates a culture of all working together to help make an organisation safe.  Jame's LinkedIn profile can be found by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmck4cybersecurity/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">clicking the link here</a>.  To see the Whizkids <a href="http://www.vintage-television.com/whizkids.html" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">click the link here</a>.  RiskyBusiness Episode 471 can be heard by <a href="https://risky.biz/RB471/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">clicking the link here</a>.  Incident Prevention and Incident Response Slideshow can be viewed here by <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/jOd88HD5PAiaS0" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">clicking the link here</a>.  <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1416507787/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwnegotiat0b-21&amp;creative=6738&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1416507787&amp;linkId=5aea8a2aed1691130deb04f6089ef405" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The Cuckoo's Egg (Cliff Stoll)</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1942788290/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwnegotiat0b-21&amp;creative=6738&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1942788290&amp;linkId=cdff43f21fe47eefa6f4d07bbd98ccff" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The Phoenix Project</a> Don't forget, to get in touch with me either try the contact page of the site or follow me on Twitter, where I can be found at <a href="https://twitter.com/Jenny_Radcliffe" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">@Jenny_Radcliffe</a>

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