Chris Woods

Highlights from our Birmingham Tech Week session with Rocketgx at Alpha Works. Where technical debt hides, what it really costs, and how to prioritise fixing it before it becomes an outage. Thanks to everyone who joined us 🙌

A pen test shouldn't end as a PDF sitting in someone's inbox. The value is in knowing: Where are we vulnerable? What could an attacker achieve? What matters most? What do we fix first? Good testing doesn't just find problems. It shows your real cyber risk.

Year three of CyberSocial and the community keeps growing 🥂 Highlights from our #BirminghamTechWeek evening: familiar faces, new connections and fresh ideas. #CyberSocial #CyberSecurity

Your team finishes at 5pm. Your attack surface doesn't. Neither do attackers. A suspicious login at 2:17am isn't less urgent because your security team is asleep. If your business runs 24/7 across time zones, cloud and supply chains, your protection should too.

What a day at #CyberVerseDay! We were proud to sponsor it at #BirminghamTechWeek. Thank you to our speakers and everyone who packed out the room🙌 Want to make your business cyber resilient? #CyberSecurity

What a week at Birmingham Tech Week! 🚀 We hosted a fringe session with @TargetInt, bringing ERP and cybersecurity together to help organisations transform securely. Key takeaway: use independent experts to verify your security. #BirminghamTechWeek #CyberSecurity

Zero Trust sounds like a buzzword. The idea is simple: Don't trust something just because it's inside your network. Verify. Limit access. Assume credentials can be compromised. It's not about making security harder. It's about stopping a breach becoming a bigger one.

Zero Trust, from principle to practice 🔐 Highlights from our Birmingham Tech Week fringe event with Microsoft: Zero Trust principles, assessment demos, and how to make it business as usual. #ZeroTrust #CyberSecurity

Great internal cyber controls mean little if a supplier gets compromised. Supply chain security is a resilience issue, not a procurement checkbox. Know who you're connected to. Know what they can access. Know what happens if they go down. #CyberSecurity

Businesses are using AI to move faster and so are attackers. As AI lowers the barrier to sophisticated cyber attacks, the question is no longer whether to adopt AI, but how to deploy it without expanding your attack surface.

AI might be changing Cyber Security. Phishing remains the most prevalent cyber attack experienced by UK businesses, with 38% reporting phishing attacks in the latest government survey. Technology matters. But your people still matter too.

Your business doesn't stop at your office network. Your attack surface is constantly changing. Understanding your external attack surface is the first step towards reducing it.

24 hours to go. Tomorrow at Alpha Works. Rocketgx, Somerled, CyberQ and Jen Brinicombe of B13 take on technical debt. 10:30am to 12pm: Technical Debt: Where Is Mine & How Can I Address It? hubs.li/Q04BLJdz0

24 hours to go. CyberVerse Day, hosted and sponsored by CyberQ Group. Register here:hubs.li/Q04Bn9Hr0 CyberSocial 2026, straight after. Register here:hubs.li/Q04Bn9jk0 See you there.