Cyber Security Leadership

Guest lecture: developing and implementing a security strategy

I had the pleasure of delivering a guest lecture on developing and implementing a cybersecurity strategy to students at the School of Information Systems and Technology Management, UNSW. A security strategy is a set of decisions about what you will and won’t prioritise, made under real constraints – budget, headcount and a threat landscape that doesn’t…<span class="excerpt-more-link"><a class="more-link" href="https://zinatullin.com/2026/08/15/guest-lecture-developing-and-implementing-a-security-strategy/">More <svg class="svg-icon" width="24" height="24" aria-hidden="true" role="img" focusable="false" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M6.96954 10.2804L11.9999 15.3107L17.0302 10.2804L15.9695 9.21973L11.9999 13.1894L8.0302 9.21973L6.96954 10.2804Z" fill="currentColor"/></svg></a></span>

8/15/2026

A lecture on human-centered approaches to cyber security

I enjoyed talking to students completing their Global MBA and MSc in Digital Transformation with the University of Hull Online about human-centered approaches to cyber security. My lecture helped reinforce the idea that cyber security is a socio-technical challenge that has deep behavioural contingencies. Cyber is a business risk and I’m glad it’s increasingly featured…<span class="excerpt-more-link"><a class="more-link" href="https://zinatullin.com/2026/07/15/a-lecture-on-human-centered-approaches-to-cyber-security/">More <svg class="svg-icon" width="24" height="24" aria-hidden="true" role="img" focusable="false" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M6.96954 10.2804L11.9999 15.3107L17.0302 10.2804L15.9695 9.21973L11.9999 13.1894L8.0302 9.21973L6.96954 10.2804Z" fill="currentColor"/></svg></a></span>

7/15/2026

Global CISO 100

It’s great to be included in the Global CISO 100 🏆 This award recognises key pillars of our industry: innovation, strategic vision, leadership, team development and community contribution. I’m incredibly grateful for the nomination and want to extend a big thank you to the judges and my network. Cyber security is a team effort, and…<span class="excerpt-more-link"><a class="more-link" href="https://zinatullin.com/2026/07/07/global-ciso-100/">More <svg class="svg-icon" width="24" height="24" aria-hidden="true" role="img" focusable="false" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M6.96954 10.2804L11.9999 15.3107L17.0302 10.2804L15.9695 9.21973L11.9999 13.1894L8.0302 9.21973L6.96954 10.2804Z" fill="currentColor"/></svg></a></span>

7/7/2026

Build Security for People – a keynote at CIO Leadership Live

I delivered a keynote at CIO Leadership Live. For about a decade, our industry has had a favourite phrase: people are the weakest link. I made the opposite case – that the people we’ve been blaming are the most capable security asset we have, and we’ve spent that decade building systems that fight them instead…<span class="excerpt-more-link"><a class="more-link" href="https://zinatullin.com/2026/06/23/build-security-for-people-a-keynote-at-cio-leadership-live/">More <svg class="svg-icon" width="24" height="24" aria-hidden="true" role="img" focusable="false" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M6.96954 10.2804L11.9999 15.3107L17.0302 10.2804L15.9695 9.21973L11.9999 13.1894L8.0302 9.21973L6.96954 10.2804Z" fill="currentColor"/></svg></a></span>

6/23/2026

The intersection of AI and Cyber

It was great to share my thoughts on the intersection of AI and Cyber. I kept it practical and worked through three key dimensions: how AI is changing the defender’s day-to-day, how we secure AI itself and how we defend when AI becomes the threat. It was particularly relevant given the latest frontier model releases,…<span class="excerpt-more-link"><a class="more-link" href="https://zinatullin.com/2026/06/11/the-intersection-of-ai-and-cyber/">More <svg class="svg-icon" width="24" height="24" aria-hidden="true" role="img" focusable="false" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M6.96954 10.2804L11.9999 15.3107L17.0302 10.2804L15.9695 9.21973L11.9999 13.1894L8.0302 9.21973L6.96954 10.2804Z" fill="currentColor"/></svg></a></span>

6/11/2026

Notes from i-4 Sydney

A day of sessions on AI in the SOC, OT resilience, fragmenting regulation and machine-speed response. We build systems that assume the human in the loop has steady attention and reliable judgement. Neither is true, and it is getting less true. Every alert, prompt, exception, and “are you sure?” draws from the same depleting account.…<span class="excerpt-more-link"><a class="more-link" href="https://zinatullin.com/2026/05/18/notes-from-i-4-sydney/">More <svg class="svg-icon" width="24" height="24" aria-hidden="true" role="img" focusable="false" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M6.96954 10.2804L11.9999 15.3107L17.0302 10.2804L15.9695 9.21973L11.9999 13.1894L8.0302 9.21973L6.96954 10.2804Z" fill="currentColor"/></svg></a></span>

5/18/2026

AWS Summit 2026: AI is moving fast, security is catching up

There is a shift happening in how the industry talks about agentic AI security. A year ago the conversation was speculative – what might go wrong, what we might do about it. Now it is specific. The platforms, primitives and patterns for operating agents safely exist as named things you can point at on a…<span class="excerpt-more-link"><a class="more-link" href="https://zinatullin.com/2026/05/14/aws-summit-2026-ai-is-moving-fast-security-is-catching-up/">More <svg class="svg-icon" width="24" height="24" aria-hidden="true" role="img" focusable="false" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M6.96954 10.2804L11.9999 15.3107L17.0302 10.2804L15.9695 9.21973L11.9999 13.1894L8.0302 9.21973L6.96954 10.2804Z" fill="currentColor"/></svg></a></span>

5/14/2026

Royal Holloway University of London adopts my book for their MSc Information Security programme

One of the UK’s leading research-intensive universities has selected the second edition of The Psychology of Information Security to be included in their flagship Information Security programme as part of their ongoing collaboration with industry professionals. “We incorporated The Psychology of Information Security into our MSc in Information Security, where it has become part of the essential…<span class="excerpt-more-link"><a class="more-link" href="https://zinatullin.com/2026/05/05/royal-holloway-university-of-london-adopts-my-book-for-their-msc-information-security-programme-2/">More <svg class="svg-icon" width="24" height="24" aria-hidden="true" role="img" focusable="false" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M6.96954 10.2804L11.9999 15.3107L17.0302 10.2804L15.9695 9.21973L11.9999 13.1894L8.0302 9.21973L6.96954 10.2804Z" fill="currentColor"/></svg></a></span>

5/5/2026

Meeting Babbage’s Difference Engine

I went to the Science Museum in London last week to see Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 2 – eight thousand parts of brass and steel, working exactly as he drew it in the 1840s. Babbage’s problem was banal: the mathematical tables of his era, used for navigation and engineering, were riddled with errors that…<span class="excerpt-more-link"><a class="more-link" href="https://zinatullin.com/2026/04/30/meeting-babbages-difference-engine/">More <svg class="svg-icon" width="24" height="24" aria-hidden="true" role="img" focusable="false" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M6.96954 10.2804L11.9999 15.3107L17.0302 10.2804L15.9695 9.21973L11.9999 13.1894L8.0302 9.21973L6.96954 10.2804Z" fill="currentColor"/></svg></a></span>

4/30/2026

AI-enabled security at the speed of business

Today, organisations are caught between two opposing forces. On one side is the drive for operational efficiency through digital transformation and AI adoption. On the other is an asymmetric cyber threat landscape. As adversaries leverage AI to increase the scale and sophistication of attacks overwhelming already stretched cyber teams, defenders must do the same by…<span class="excerpt-more-link"><a class="more-link" href="https://zinatullin.com/2026/03/28/ai-enabled-security-at-the-speed-of-business/">More <svg class="svg-icon" width="24" height="24" aria-hidden="true" role="img" focusable="false" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M6.96954 10.2804L11.9999 15.3107L17.0302 10.2804L15.9695 9.21973L11.9999 13.1894L8.0302 9.21973L6.96954 10.2804Z" fill="currentColor"/></svg></a></span>

3/28/2026

Cyber Security Leadership

Guest lecture: developing and implementing a security strategy

A lecture on human-centered approaches to cyber security

Global CISO 100

Build Security for People – a keynote at CIO Leadership Live

The intersection of AI and Cyber

Notes from i-4 Sydney

AWS Summit 2026: AI is moving fast, security is catching up

Royal Holloway University of London adopts my book for their MSc Information Security programme

Meeting Babbage’s Difference Engine

AI-enabled security at the speed of business

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