Matt Palmer

Join our team and play a crucial role in enhancing cyber security in #Guernsey. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who would like to help us deliver Guernsey Cyber Security Centre. Cyber security expertise not required - strong organisation and people skills are key: jcsc.je/latest/news/...

Lessons from the Titanic: when you don’t respond to a crisis — Matt Palmer When the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg on 15 April 1912, she set off flares and her wireless operator sent out a distress call. The RMS Carpathia responded, but by the time she arrived, the Titanic had a...

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Introducing Guernsey Cyber Security Centre — Matt Palmer In creating Guernsey Cyber Security Centre, JCSC are working with the States of Guernsey to ensure all the Channel Islands have access to specialist support for cyber security incidents, as well as ad...

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Breaking Down Cybersecurity: The Real Meaning Behind the Jargon — Matt Palmer What really is cyber security and why doesn't the traditional CIA triad of confidentiality, integrity, and availability work? And what's that got to do with footballs anyway? I've written this simple breakdown of the five key cyber security terms - confidentiality, integrity, availability, authe

CIA is wrong - mattpalmer.net/palmeroncybe... #cybersecurity

👀 Did you spot us on ITV Channel TV last night?

Our director @matt.je spoke to Philip Sime about the uptick in fraud and cyber crime over the festive period, and how you can protect yourself.

Read our advice in full via our website: jcsc.je/advice-and-g...

#cybermonday

Is hacktivism an acceptable choice? — Matt Palmer This week I attended CSO Online 's CSO Security Summit in London, which was tracked into protection and culture tracks. One of the most interesting aspects of this was the focus on mental heath. As any incident responder (professional or accidental!) will know, these can be very stressful. We ignor

To young people, #hacktivism can seem a low risk way of practicing or applying #cyber skills. But it isn't:
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Thank you also to CSOonline for the award yesterday evening. It's much appreciated and a pleasure to be in such good company with so many capable and passionate people. #Cybersecurity is still an incredible field where no two roles, or people, are the same.

if we want to ensure everyone with an interest has a productive outlet for their talents, and understands the risks and personal impacts of taking the wrong path, we need to do more. Getting involved in the wrong things is too easily done.

through established paths. It's also an are of interest that is very hard for parents to support, monitor and guide on. Jersey Cyber Security Centre supports several work experience students each year, all of whom have made a substantial contribution to our work. But it is the tip of the iceberg.

We still have very low female participation in STEM subjects. many schools do not even offer Computing at 14-18 (GCSE and A level in UK and Jersey). We don't fully understand how to support cognitive diversity, which can lead to talented young people feeling isolated and challenged to engage.

We still need to improve our capability to give young people with an interest in cyber the right opportunities to progress that interest in appropriate way, limited readiness of the education community to support and guide those with a high technical aptitude with challenging work in school.

The takeaway for me from Lisa Forte's panel was that a lot of the discussion around responding to #hacktivism focusses on the symptoms rather than that cause. Indeed I think Sarb Sembhi was the only person to really talk about motivations when he mentioned climate activism.

Yesterday I attended CSO Online's CSO Security Summit in London, which was tracked into protection and culture tracks. One of the most interesting aspects of this was the focus on mental heath. As any incident responder (professional or accidental!) will know, these can be very stressful.

Update - JCSC is now at @jcsc.je

Securing our digital foundations with DNS Last month at the Channel Islands Cyber Security Conference, I announced the high level results of our first review of DNS security in Jersey public bodies and critical infrastructure (CNI) providers. This looked at whether local organisations are configuring their internet domains (like jcsc.

We recently surveyed local organisations' digital foundations - known as #DNS. This is what we are doing to improve ours, and what we think everyone should do.

#cybersecurity #JerseyCI #ChannelIslands

JCSC weren't using it, so registered an account and we are just waiting on our IT provider to edit the DNS (I don't have access - segregation of duties and all that good stuff). So for now we are @jerseycyber.bsky.social but this will change. It's not ideal but shouldn't take long.

Thanks that's really helpful - I was wondering if that would work. Might be an option for States
Members etc, will suggest.

JCSC issued written advice on friday to all public bodies and ALOs to verify, and shared @jerseyitguy.org's video how to guide to help them. There are some fake accounts impersonating gov at the moment so best to be careful until they are verified. I nearly shared the wrong one.

👋 That's right: JCSC is now on Bluesky!

You can still find us across our other accounts. And in person at our Operations Centre at 1 Seaton Place, between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.

You can also find the latest advice and guidance via jcsc.je.

Currently we are on linkedin, facebook, x, instragram and bluesky. We use Publer publer.io/cyber to make it cost effective for us to use multiple social apps, which means you can follow us from where ever suits you best.

Matt Palmer (@matt.je) Director of Jersey Cyber Security Centre https://jcsc.je, CSIRT for Jersey Channel Islands. Ex CISO global FS - Dog owner - Technology - Finance (FCCA). Personal acct so my views only folks. https://mattpalmer.net

Locking down my x account was less a point of principle than a simple recognition that; if you become what you think, and you think what you read, you really don't want to read x. The bandwagon is rolling to bluesky, and I'm on it here: bsky.app/profile/matt.je.

I posted the other week about ITV's piece on JCSC, but I didn't share the actual segment. Fortunately ITV have posted it online so you can watch it here: www.itv.com/news/channel.... It takes a lot to make 3 minutes of television!

#cybersecurity #cybercrime

Behind Jersey Cyber Security Centre’s Proactive Cyber Defense Mission Infosecurity spoke with Jersey’s Cyber Chief about how the Channel Island prepares for the next wave of cyber threats

looking behind Jersey Cyber Security Centre's proactive #cyber defence mission: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/interviews/i...

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