{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"106. Who is Foresight? with Craig Ford","description":"We welcome back author Craig Ford as he and Claire dive a little deeper into his latest book 'Foresight' which has been nominated for an Aurelis Award in the young reader category. There is cybercrime, romance, spies and hacking and a few matrix references in there for the fans. Aside from the book, Craig and Claire discuss the ongoing challenges of the cyber skill shortage and the state of cyber in Australia over the past 12 months. Craig is the CTO for Baidam Solutions where he leads the technical services division of the organisation. Craig is also the Queensland Chair for the Australian Information Security Association (AISA). He is an experienced cybersecurity professional with various qualifications including two master\u2019s degrees and a history in both pen-testing and security engineering. Craig is a published author with the books \u201cA Hacker, I Am\u201d and \u201cA Hacker, I Am \u2013 Vol 2\u201d in his first cyber awareness series and \u201cForesight\u201d a new cyberpunk\/hacker fantasy series published in June 2022. He is a freelance cybersecurity journalist who is best known for his work on CSO Australia (IDG Communications) in which he contributed almost 100 cybersecurity articles between 2018-2020. He is now a regular columnist with the Women in Security Magazine as well as a freelance contributor for Careers with STEM, Top Cyber News, Cyber Today and Cyber Australia Magazines. Links: Episode 67 -Getting the Basics Right with Craig Ford Website LinkedIn Facebook Twitter For the full episode transcript, please visit our website The Security Collective podcast is proudly brought to you in partnership with LastPass, the leading password manager. ","author_name":"The Security Collective Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/thesecuritycollective.com","html":"