Testimonials Library

"I think certainly I have learned something - mainly all the different stuff to consider because I think you said right at the very start that it would be easy to have every single thing in a playbook when really simplicity is the thing and a lot of it is just common sense. I think this is definitely going to help as we start developing our own ones. So, yeah, I think, I have definitely learned something, or maybe not what I expected, something more about as said to keep it simple and stick to the obvious stuff." Frank Hutcheon - Network and Security Team Leader - Angus Council

"Yeah, I have enjoyed it. The number of different things that we could, or we should be looking at and the way that we can approach it, it was quite eye-opening for me, I thought. But yeah, I will definitely use it. It was good." Barry Ormond - Network and Security Engineer - Angus Council

This course has been very useful; eye-opening insight into the real-world experience, instead of focusing on bookish teaching. So, thank you Amar for sharing the real-time experiences and trying to give more insights and initiate the thought process. So, this is going to be very useful to carry forward for my future requirements. Thanks. Mansoor Hussain-Cybersecurity Manager - Y2 Global

“The last couple of days have been really good. With no knowledge of cyber at all, to be honest, I found the first morning frightening - to know that there’s so much to be done and so much access to systems. The bit about ‘don’t protect, be ready knowing that you’re going to be attacked’, that was an eye-opener for me. And my eyes just kept opening wider from thereon. The processes, procedures and thoughts that you’ve given me, I’m going to use them to think about how I go about my BCP stuff and my emergency planning, that’s going to be really useful to me going forward. So thanks very much. I think your style of delivery is very engaging.” Chris McConkey- Head of Corporate Services - Emergency Response Planning- Department for the Economy

“Amar, thank you very much for the course. I found it very useful and informative coming from a very non-technical background. Some of the points are very worthwhile and I’ll pick them up with my Technical team manager.” Rory Donnelly- Emergency Planning Coordination- Mid Ulster District Council

“I think it's really useful, I've got a great insight into the level of detail that our IT department needs to think about and a better appreciation of that. I'm looking forward to sitting down with Marvin and going through everything, all the plans, and the business continuity plans that we have in place will kick in whenever unfortunately something does happen. But as you said in the beginning we should be prepared, in all likelihood we will be attacked at some point. I liked the style of training and am looking forward to moving things along.” Anne Hardy- Corporate and Community Resilience Officer- Mid and East Antrim Borough Council

“I found the course very enjoyable, very relevant. I found it engaging and it had a good lot of useful material that we can move into practice fairly quickly. The online format has worked well. I’ve enjoyed the exercises and the breakout rooms. I’m looking forward to receiving the course materials.” Stephen McAlister- Head of ICT Governance- Ulster University

“The course really highlights the breadth of the work ahead of us in the cybersecurity space. Probably, we are aware of what's out there and what's going on but some good practical advice in the course and things that we can take away and look at how we can move from a more manual response to a more automated way… those are a few priorities to be picked up from the course today.” Stephen Todd - Asst Director for IT and ILT - Southern Regional College

"Hi, my name is Suraj Singh and I am from Microsoft, Hyderabad, Security Operations Centre. This course and workshop that I've been through today, it was amazing. Amar is not just a trainer, he's an industry expert, and from his experience and knowledge, I actually got some amazing insights about cybersecurity incident response and management. We did some amazing exercises today, created the red team activities and blue team activities, and, we were actually able to find sudden ways to attack and to defend, and I think overall, this has actually allowed me to think about a lot of other things which we can achieve and we can practice. It was amazing. Thank you." Senior Program Manager (Security) at Microsoft