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We’re delighted to announce that CyNam has been shortlisted for the 2019 Cyber Security Awards, as a Not for Profit Team of the Year’!

Established in 2014 to reward the best individuals, teams and companies within the cyber security industry, the Cyber Security Awards (cybersecurityawards.com) has been created to reward excellence and innovation, and those committed to progressing the industry.

Celebrating everyone from exciting new start-ups to global security companies, we are honoured to be included among these names. We wish all the best to everyone who has been shortlisted.

Recently we announced the forthcoming launch of the Hub8 co-working space for cyber technology, located in Cheltenham’s Brewery Quarter. As well as a place to where cyber security SMEs and major players can collaborate, it will also become a physical home for the CyNam team.

To reflect the deepening of the partnership between CyNam and Hub8, Paul Bentham, who sits on CyNam’s board of directors, has joined Hub8 as a Non-Executive Director. We believe that this greater synergy between the two organisations will improve our ability to serve and nurture the CyNam community.

Paul brings with him a fantastic network of contacts within the cyber security space and a wealth of experience which he developed at his company Surevine, making him the perfect candidate to bridge this partnership.

To learn more about Hub8, please contact Bruce.g@hub8and.co

We’re pleased to announce the appointment of Bruce Gregory as a new member of the CyNam Board of Directors, who joined the organisation in May.

Bruce brings over 20 years of experience in the development and operation of commercial developments across the UK and Europe. Most recently, he has been involved in a number of projects building and operating innovation hubs.

In particular, Bruce is the Managing Director of Hub8 – Cheltenham’s first dedicated co-working space for Cheltenham’s cyber security and technology business, and the physical home for CyNam. We’re excited to discover how the deepening of this collaboration between Hub8 and CyNam will further benefit Cheltenham’s cyber community.

A huge thank you to everyone who made Tuesday night’s CyNam 19.2 event such a success. It was a fantastic evening for everyone to network, innovate and collaborate.

Thank you also to our sponsors (Sopra Steria, Deep3, Thales) for making the evening possible and to our speakers, including Bruce Gregory from Hub8, Hadley Beeman and Terence Eden from NHSX, James Wood from NHS Digital, CTRL Group’s Ben Fenhert, Tony Gee from PenTest Partners, and Dr Alex Tarter from Thales, Richard York from Deep3 and Richard Bach from XQ Cyber.

We hope you found the evening as entertaining and informative as we did and are looking forward to the next opportunity to connect!

With only a couple of days left to go before the next CyNam cyber security event, we are very excited to welcome XQ Cyber (xqcyber.com), who will be participating in a cyber showcase during CyNam 19.2.

XQ Cyber believe that cyber security should be less complex and better value. The team are on a mission to make their customers’ digital lives better by helping them to mitigate technology risk, to innovate faster and to thrive in the information age.

Make sure to join us at CyNam 19.2 to hear from the white hat hacking team and learn all about how they develop innovative solutions and services to solve difficult, thorny issues. The event is now full but make sure to sign up to the waiting list for any tickets which may be released: https://bit.ly/2DdAOQU

CyNam 19.2 kicks off in only a matter of days. We have a packed speaker line up with some of the biggest cyber companies in the UK confirmed to attend, and a fantastic venue at the Cheltenham Science Festival – and attendees get to experience all of this for free. 

 None of this would have been possible without our Silver Sponsor Sopra Steria (soprasteria.co.uk), who is a trusted leader in successful transformation programmes. Sopra Steria works with private and public organisations to address their most complex and critical business challenges. Combining high quality and performance services, added-value and innovation, Sopra Steria enables its clients to make the best use of information technology.

As first-time sponsors of CyNam, Sopra Steria is looking forward to being able to network, collaborate and innovate with the fantastic local community at the event. To meet the Sopra Steria team and welcome them to the CyNam community, make sure to come and join us on June 4th at the Helix Theatre in the Cheltenham Science Festival. The tickets are now all sold out but sign up to the waiting list for any tickets which may become available: https://bit.ly/2DdAOQU

The countdown to CyNam 19.2 has started! The next CyNam event is less than a week away and with the event now completely sold out we are looking forward to having a full house.

So, if you can no longer attend the event please get in touch with the CyNam team (info@cynam.org) so we can reallocate your ticket. As for those who still wish to attend the event, we have a waiting list set up – those who register will be given the opportunity to take part should spaces become available: https://bit.ly/2DdAOQU

Our next CyNam community networking event takes place on Tuesday 4th June, within the Cheltenham Science Festival’s Helix Theatre. The conversation for this evening will be focusing on cyber security and the world of HealthTech.

To discuss this topic further, we are pleased to include Dr Alex Tarter, from global aerospace, defence, space, transport and digital security company Thales (thalesgroup.com), as a speaker. As Chief Cyber Consultant, Alex will be sharing his knowledge in his talk ‘Designing in Cyber Security’. With healthcare increasingly using technology to achieve life-saving and quality-of-life improving benefits, this talk describes the challenges and approaches to develop these critical products and systems.

If you’ve yet to reserve a place to hear Dr Tarter and our other speakers, you can sign up to join our waiting list for any tickets that become available to the sold out event! https://bit.ly/2uWTPm9

With the second CyNam networking event of 2019 just around the corner, we are delighted to add another speaker to the agenda for our evening of ‘Cyber Security in HealthTech’: Richard Yorke, CEO of Deep3.

As specialists in designing and delivering mission critical software, Richard will be talking about the risks associated with importing untrusted data into networks – such as patient care records to the NHS IT infrastructure, Spine – and how a solution like Deep3’s Safe Data Import service can mitigate against cyber threats.

 If you’d like to join us for CyNam 19.2, the networking and speaking session is taking place Tuesday 4th June. For this event, we have collaborated with the Cheltenham Science Festival, and it will be held inside the festival’s Helix Theatre in Imperial Square Gardens. Spaces are now sold out, so register on the waiting list for any that may become available! https://bit.ly/2DdAOQU