In this chat with Lianne Potter, Head of SecOps for ASDA, and which is part one of our episode entitled ‘Cyber Anthropology, Diversity and Inclusion - How to Build a SecOps Team', we discuss the meaning of the term 'cyberanthropologist' and how her studies have helped shape her as a leader and a builder of diverse teams. We also discuss her career journey and 'squiggly' route in to cybersecurity.
Lianne delivers talks across the globe and is regularly published in industry publications to share her vision for a new type of holistic security function. Drawing upon her expertise as a cyber-anthropologist (through her consultancy, The Anthrosecurist), her practical experience as a security-focused software developer and in her current role as the head of Security Operations for a major UK supermarket retailer; Lianne combines the human and the technical aspects of security to evangelise a cultural security transformation.
Outside of work she is on the advisory board for a community enterprise aimed at encouraging diversity in tech and is a published author, Improv performer and podcast host.
In 2021 she won three awards: Security Leader of the Year, Woman of the Year in the Enterprise category, and Computing.com’s Security Specialist of the Year for her work on human-centric approaches to security. In 2023 she won ‘Cyber Personality of the Year’ in The Real Cyber Awards.
You can listen to Lianne talk about her human-centric approach to cybersecurity every Thursday on her podcast “Compromising Positions”, in which she interviews non-cybersecurity people from the world of anthropology, psychology and behavioural science about cybersecurity culture.
Links:
www.compromisingpositions.co.uk
https://sessionize.com/Lianne_Potter_AKA_THE_ANTHROSECURIST/https://www.linkedin.com/in/liannep/
