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Richard Beck
Richard Beck is Director of Cyber at QA. He works with customers to build effective and successful security training solutions tailored for business needs. Richard has over 15 years' experience in senior Information Security roles.
Prior to QA, Richard was Head of Information Security for an organisation who underpin 20% of the UK's Critical National Infrastructure. Richard also held Security and Technical Management posts in the Defence, Financial Services and HMG. Richard sits on a number of security advisory panels and previously chaired the Communication Industry Personnel Security Information Exchange (CPNI).
He is also a STEM Ambassador working to engage and enthuse young people in the area of cyber security. Providing a unique perspective on the world of cyber security to teachers and encourage young people to consider a career in cyber security.
More articles by Richard
Cyber Pulse: Edition 123 | 3 August 2020
Read the latest edition of Cyber Pulse: Insecure internet-facing databases wiped, more organisation fall victim to ransomware…
03 August 2020Cyber Pulse: Edition 122 | 27 July 2020
Read the latest edition of Cyber Pulse: Garmin faces outage as ransomware attack looks likely, energy sectors targeted by Fan…
27 July 2020Cyber Pulse: Edition 121 | 21 July 2020
Read the latest edition of Cyber Pulse: Critical ‘wormable’ vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows DNS Server, Twitter breach:…
14 July 2020Cyber Pulse: Edition 120 | 13 July 2020
Read the latest edition of Cyber Pulse: Australia one of the most hacked countries in the world, revenge hack on US security…
13 July 2020Cyber Pulse: Edition 119 | 6 July 2020
Read the latest edition of Cyber Pulse: Darkweb exposes BMW customer database, fake “DNS Update” emails target site owners an…
06 July 2020Cyber Pulse: Edition 118 | 29 June 2020
Read the latest edition of Cyber Pulse: European bank hit by huge distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack; Attackers hide…
29 June 2020Cyber Pulse: Edition 117 | 22 June 2020
Read the latest edition of Cyber Pulse: Australia warns of state-backed cyberattacks, Android spyware targets Uyghur Muslims,…
22 June 2020Cyber Pulse: Edition 116 | 15 June 2020
Read the latest edition of Cyber Pulse: Kubernetes falls to cryptomining via machine-learning framework Kubeflow; European po…
16 June 2020Cyber Pulse: Edition 115 | 8 June 2020
Read the latest edition of Cyber Pulse: SMBGhost/CoronaBlue – Windows 10 exploits emerge, fraud-detection scripts on eBay and…
08 June 2020Cyber Pulse: Edition 114 | 1 June 2020
Read the latest edition of Cyber Pulse. Beware of social media platform Mitron's vulnerabilities, Cisco backend servers hacke…
01 June 2020