Don Smith

A genuine Cybersecurity evanglist

We have a great deal to be thankful to Don Smith (Director CTU-CIC at Secureworks) for:

• He helped focus our spin-outs in the early stages.
• He was always there to focus our programme/modules.
• He’s always told us about the future of Cybersecurity.

Here is someone who has seen it all in Cybersecurity … and still loves his work. In life, you need people who just love what they are doing. So for me and Rich Marfarlane to get to interview him, is a real priviledge:

Don is always the first person on our list to give a keynote talk, as he always puts his heart and soul into it. You never leave a Don Smith presentation, without thinking more deeply about something. He’s helped us continually, and is always there to have a chat, and to be invited down and see cybersecurity operations in action. And so I remember visiting him in his DNS days, and used to love walking along Princes Street, and often had to double back a few times, as their office wasn’t easy to find.