I ❤ Social Media
My name is Phil and I love social media. It’s not a guilty pleasure and I am not ashamed to stand up and declare it to the World. A guilty pleasure is secretly enjoying the Eurovision Song Contest or eating …
The Skoda Experience
As some of you may know I deliver courses across several training vendors and despite the fact that I have been doing it for a reasonable amount of time – I have kept my ‘portfolio’ tight. Although I often dabble …
Do You Wanna Be A Record Breaker !?
I have now got to that time in my life where I am starting to reminisce about how good things were in ‘my day’ and although I love new technology and advances in science – I still think of ‘when …
Grand Designs
There is an old saying that ‘An Englishman’s home is his castle’ which if we now adjust for political correctness probably applies to every gender and every nationality. Most people would probably like to live in a nice place and …
KISS
One thing I love about being an instructor is being able to explain things. That kind of goes with the territory. However, it’s relatively easy to explain things when you have experience of the subject matter, know your target audience …
No-brainer of the Year
I don’t really like using the term ‘no-brainer’ as you have to use your brain to decide it’s a no-brainer. There is probably some very clever academic term for this paradox. Like most folk, lock-down restrictions have played a big …
Firebrand Training Sprint Sessions
The following links will take you to some Firebrand Sprint Training Sessions I conducted in 2020. The three I led on were: Demystifying Cryptography (2 Parts) Network Security for the Non-Technical User Training & Awareness – The Good, The Bad …
When the Stars Align: 10 Tips to Run User Training & Awareness
What does astronomy have to do with cyber security, and why bring this up now? In this article, I take a long gaze at the future, and how to run the perfect user awareness and training campaign. Some of you …
How to kick-start an IT career during a pandemic
Luckily enough, for the past two weeks I have been working from home already in order to complete some development work on some of our foundation courses at Firebrand Training. Because of this unrelated (lucky?) coincidence, I was already self-isolating — …
From Little Cogs, Mighty Clocks Go Bong!
I was able to use my time in 2020 (what a year!) to learn new things and am lucky to work for a company who supports my professional and personal development to the point where I also took several key …