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Author: Gordon Smith

Gordon Smith is a freelance journalist, copywriter and content consultant based in Ireland. He has covered information security, cyber risk and data privacy in print and online for over two decades, from national media including the Irish Times, Irish Independent, and Business Post, to specialist online news sites and titles including Siliconrepublic.com, TechPro, Help Net Security and the Law Society Gazette. He also hosts the annual IRISSCON conference in Dublin – Ireland’s longest running infosecurity event – and has produced content for a number of security industry organisations and business groups.

Magnificent Seven: Celebrating Great Women in Cybersecurity and Data Protection

This year, the theme of International Women’s Day is ‘Inspire Inclusion’. That inspiration is needed, because inequality and gender representation still need to improve in cybersecurity. Even though girls outperform at school, just 26 per cent of people under the age of 30 working in cybersecurity are female, according to ISC2. And the percentage is […]

IRISSCON 2023: OT, AI, and human empathy

In front of its largest ever attendance, the annual Irish cybersecurity conference IRISSCON tackled some big themes. Among them were: attacks against critical infrastructure, increasing regulation, the need for empathy from security pros, and – naturally – AI. From the off, 2023 struck a more downbeat tone than last year’s edition. The first keynote speaker […]