Hosted by ESET and Annie Machon, former MI5 British spy
In a world rife with digital dangers, it's essential to stay ahead of the curve on cybersecurity. Join former MI5 British spy Annie Machon as she dives into the war in Ukraine, how rising tensions between the West and China are changing our online landscape, and the pivotal disclosures of Edward Snowden - even 10 years on. Machon will pull together all these issues and analyse what the primary current threats are and how we, as individuals, companies and societies, can mitigate them.
Introducing the guest speaker:
Annie Machon was an intelligence officer for the UK's Security Service, MI5, before resigning to help blow the whistle on the crimes and incompetence of the British spies in the 1990s.
She is now a media commentator, author, political campaigner, and international public speaker on a wide variety of geopolitical issues including: security and intelligence, ethics and citizenship, internet freedoms, press and media freedoms, secrecy legislation, civil liberties, as well as discussing her personal story of being ‘on the run’.
In 2020 she was awarded the SA Award for Integrity in Intelligence by the Sam Adams Associates, a global group of intelligence, diplomatic and military whistleblowers.
She served four years as the European Director of Law Enforcement Action Partnership, is a director of https://worldethicaldata.org/ and organiser of the World Ethical Data Forum.
She has also featured in numerous films and TV documentaries including The Culture High, Digital Dissidents, The Mole: Undercover in North Korea, Disparaitre, The Secrets of the Spies, Espionnes, and Stasi, with more coming out soon.
Annie has an MA (Hons) Classics from Cambridge University.
New book: The Privacy Mission: Achieving Ethical Data for our Lives Online
Website: https://anniemachon.ch/about-annie
Join ESET on the 17 March at 14:00 for what promises to be an insightful webinar, discussing a collaborative future for the cybersecurity industry.
