Mike Carthy is a cybersecurity practitioner and entrepreneur with over 15 years of hands-on experience in incident response, security operations, and strategic risk management. He has led security functions for FCA-regulated financial firms, protected critical national infrastructure at FTSE 100 companies, and built and managed 24/7 Security Operations Centres across the UK and Middle East. His career spans frontline incident response at Nettitude (one of the UK's leading CREST-certified MSSPs), senior SOC leadership at Severn Trent PLC protecting critical national infrastructure, and most recently serving as Interim Head of Information Security at Openwork, where he led the transformation of their entire security function. Mike holds four GIAC certifications from the SANS Institute...