Women in Tech & the Challenges in Cyber Security - Brigadier Sara Sharkey, Head of Application Services and DevOps at Defence Digital

 Listen to the story behind why Somerford is expanding into the Middle East. 

Find out how we are replicating our UK processes in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region and building a community of trust for organisations across a breadth of industries.

 🇦🇪 Find out more about Somerford in the Middle East on our website: https://www.somerfordassociates.com/somerford-middle-east/ 

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In this special customer case study episode of the Somerford Associates Technology Podcast, our Chief Cyber Strategy and Innovation Advisor, Bill Balfour, is joined by a special guest from Specsavers, one of the leading providers of eye care services worldwide. Join us as we discuss our successful partnership in deploying Splunk for Cybersecurity and IT Operations.

Graham Dawes, Service Tooling and Improvement Manager at Specsavers share his experience on a successful Splunk deployment within their organisation, including the consolidation of multiple monitoring solutions. The pair also discuss the benefits of real-time monitoring of critical infrastructure and business services across the supply chain.

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In this podcast, join Anne and her expert panel of security strategists as they analyse how organisations can plan to achieve security maturity with Splunk. The panel shares their insights on the importance of proactive security maturity planning and offers guidance on avoiding common mistakes when implementing Splunk for security.

Featuring Matthias Maier, EMEA Director of Product Marketing at Splunk, the panel also explore how Splunk can assist in improving threat detection capabilities, reducing the risk of security breaches, and how Splunk can help organisations to achieve their security objectives.

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Join Somerford's Anne Mundy for a discussion about the importance of your digital identity. 

Imprivata's Andy Wilcox adds his background and familiarity in exploring why digital identity is so important, as well as delving into tangible workplace examples and how businesses are able to rapidly assess the effectiveness of their current strategy through Imprivata's solution suite.

Somerford is a certified Premier Partner with #imprivata. The Imprivata platform addresses critical compliance and security challenges while improving provider productivity. #Digitalidentity is the cornerstone of Imprivata, enabling effective, efficient, secure, and compliant access and management for the systems, applications, and data.

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Additional resources:

✓ Explore Imprivata's 'Digital Identity Framework' in full:
https://www.imprivata.co.uk/digital-identity-framework

✓ Quickly assess the effectiveness of your current strategy: 
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Join Somerford's Grace Dolby in our final "Women in Tech" podcast of 2022. 

In this series finale, Grace is joined by Sarah Lucas, Head of Core Platform & Migration Services at Lloyds Banking Group, in examining key pitfalls organisations should evaluate before migrating to the Cloud. 

They also explore how Sarah started in the tech industry, and how this experience puts her in an advantageous position to offer advice on the matter. Sarah wraps up this episode by offering practical topical suggestions.

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Join Anne for a special edition of the Somerford Podcast. featuring a guest panel in discussion around how Somerford provides further value, to both, its customers and Partners. 

They explore and detail previous client examples and testimonials, along with examining how the culture and people at Somerford are key to its success.

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Paul Graham, Somerford's Certified Netskope Cloud Security Implementation & Integration Consultant, joins Anne Mundy for an explanatory conversation about Netskope.

They discuss and define key Netskope terminology, features and use cases, along with how the impact of the pandemic caught many teams off-guard, and explore how Netskope fills this void.

✓ Read Paul's recent blog post, "How to Create Category Based Filters for Web Traffic with Netskope", below:
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Somerford's 'Women in Tech' Podcast Series continues with Gina Gill, CDIO at the Ministry of Justice UK. 

Gina gives us an overview of the MoJ's Digital Strategy and how CIOs in large organisations are facing similar IT challenges, regardless of industry, and how the significance of people encompasses a key 'strand' of a successful Digital strategy.

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Anne kicks off the return of Somerford's 'Women in Tech' Podcast Series by joining Kirtsy Paine, Strategic Technical Advisor at Splunk, in conversation about how Splunk is tackling resilience and sustainability customer pain points. 

Kirsty recounts her career path and how it's played a key part in her current role at Splunk, as well as detailing trending issues organisations are facing in a post-pandemic world, and where Splunk fits in.

✓ Have any questions?—Reach out to Kirsty Paine at Splunk on Linkedin:
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In this episode, Anne is joined by Lyndon Hedderly, Principle Business Value Consultant at Confluent, for an introduction to Confluent and Kafka.

They discuss how customers are utilising Confluent, where Kafka fits in and what Challenges both Confluent Cloud and Kafka are helping to resolve.

✓ Send your questions to Lyndon Hedderley at Confluent:
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