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Matt Palmer

Director at Jersey Cyber Security Centre

London, United Kingdom

As Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for global fortune-500 companies, Matt Palmer has served as a tech and cyber security leader for some of the world’s leading financial institutions, and had the privilege to advise both countries and corporations.

Matt now leads national cyber defence for Jersey as Director of Jersey Cyber Security Centre (JCSC), overseeing the direction of JCSC to promote and improve cyber resilience across critical national infrastructure, businesses, communities, and citizens. Also an experienced financial services non-executive director and public speaker, he has won several professional awards for leadership in cybersecurity and spoken at conferences and events around the world.

Available For: Speaking
Travels From: Jersey, UK
Speaking Topics: cyber security, cyber incident response, cyber risk

Matt Palmer Points
Academic 0
Author 70
Influencer 23
Speaker 42
Entrepreneur 90
Total 225

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Thought Leader Profile

Portfolio Mix

Company Information

Company Type: Enterprise
Minimum Project Size: N/A
Average Hourly Rate: N/A
Number of Employees: 1-10
Company Founded Date: 2024
Media Experience: 10+ years, including national TV, radio, conferenc
Last Media Interview: 08/01/2024

Areas of Expertise

Cybersecurity 35.32
Digital Disruption 31.86
Digital Transformation 30.50
Leadership 30.11
National Security 37.07
Privacy 31.78
Risk Management 30.25
Security 30.15

Industry Experience

Federal & Public Sector
Financial Services & Banking
Professional Services
Telecommunications

Publications

49 Article/Blogs
Lessons from the Titanic: when you don’t respond to a crisis
Linkedin
August 22, 2025
A few years ago I wrote a short article about the Titanic, and the lessons for cyber risk management. However, there’s a far more interesting part to that story.

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Tags: Cybersecurity, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation

Is hacktivism an acceptable choice?
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December 01, 2024

This week I attended CSO Online's CSO Security Summit in London, which was tracked into protection and culture tracks. One of the most interesting aspects of this was the focus on mental heath. As any incident responder (professional or accidental!) will know, these can be very stressful. We ignore these issues at our peril
























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Tags: Cybersecurity

CSO30 award: thank you
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December 01, 2024



























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Tags: Cybersecurity

Introducing Incidentally: Why We Must Embrace Risk and Learn From Incidents
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September 10, 2024
Progress demands risk, and incidents are inevitable. Based on 25 years of
personal experience, Incidentally will explore the role of risk in driving
success, particularly in cybersecurity, and how we can manage and learn
from an incident or cyber crisis.

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Tags: Cybersecurity

Incidentally, incidents matter.
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September 09, 2024
An introduction to the debate on cyber incident response

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Tags: Cybersecurity

Breaking Down Cybersecurity: The Real Meaning Behind the Jargon
Matt Palmer
April 27, 2024
Cyber security is often conflated with the term confidentiality, but that is not correct. Traditionally, professionals tend to define it as being about confidentiality, integrity and availability (known as the CIA triad), but that's not quite right either. So what is it?

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Tags: Cybersecurity, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation

Applying agile principles to public sector change
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March 21, 2024
Shortly after 2001, I was one of many to sign the agile manifesto for
software development. This document went on to start a global movement and
change how technology change is done: from grandiose projects that often
failed, to iterative change that often delivered.

But agile principles can be

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Tags: Cybersecurity, Agile

Why is Jersey introducing a new Cyber Security Law?
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March 11, 2024
under our proposed new Cyber Security Law, Jersey Cyber Security Centre
(JCSC) will have no power to fine or penalise bad behaviour. We will have
no power to insist, unless through adoption of our recommendations by an
existing business or regulator. No power to name and shame those who don't
do

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Tags: Cybersecurity

Why is Jersey introducing a new Cyber Security Law?
LinkedIn
March 10, 2024
In recent year organisations have adopted new technologies and systems faster than ever before. That's even more the case in an innovative digital island such as Jersey - and in doing so, they’ve opened up new opportunities that have benefited our economy and society.

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Tags: Cybersecurity, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation

Challenging password dogma
Matt Palmer
February 25, 2024
Passwords should be the easiest area of security. Every organisation has a password policy. Every organisation used passwords. Everyone at every organisation uses passwords. Everyone has been trained how to do it. And everyone has been doing it for a very long time.

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Tags: Cybersecurity, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation

10 steps to effective board leadership on cyber security
Matt Palmer
February 21, 2024
The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report has consistently ranked cyber attacks among the top seven risks facing the planet in terms of likelihood and impact, while high-profile CEOs including Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway and Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase see them as the number-one threat to business.

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Tags: Cybersecurity, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation

10 steps to effective board leadership on cyber security
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February 20, 2024
Boards and non executive directors can lead from the front on cyber
security and reduce risk for your organisation. Yet sometimes it is not
easy to find a path forward to engage in a technical area. Here are 10
practice suggestions to take forward with your cyber security leader.

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Tags: Cybersecurity

When Cyber Security Board Reports Fall Short
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February 19, 2024
Reporting cyber security to the board involves a delicate balance. Cyber
security technical details need to be turned into strategic plans that
match the organization's risk tolerance and business goals. Here’s how it
can go wrong, and what it takes to get it right.

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Tags: Cybersecurity

Does moving to the cloud mean compromising on security?
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February 18, 2024


Will moving to the cloud improve cyber security, or are cloud services an unnecessary cyber risk?


The transition to cloud computing is an evolution that many organisations are still undertaking to improve efficiency, scalability, and flexibility in their operations. Cloud services offer recogn

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Tags: Cybersecurity

How to get fast board buy-in for your cyber security project
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February 14, 2024



























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Lessons from the MGM cyber attack
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February 14, 2024



























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Project assurance skills and Prince 2 for IT auditors
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February 13, 2024



























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A personal experience of CISSP boot camp
Matt Palmer
February 11, 2024
Information risk and security is an infinite field of work and study. You can spend your whole life trying to gain the width or depth of knowledge necessary to do the job competently, and every day feel you know a little less than the day before.

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Tags: Cybersecurity, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation

A personal experience of CISSP boot camp
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February 11, 2024
Information risk and security is an infinite field of work and study. You can spend your whole life trying to gain the width or depth of knowledge necessary to do the job competently, and every day feel you know a little less than the day before.At the same time, it’s one of the least mature profe

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Tags: Cybersecurity

Should I get CISSP Certified?
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February 11, 2024
The focus of CISSP is purely Information Security. Having said that, its a very big field. CISSP’s reputation as a certification is for being ‘a mile wide and an inch deep’. In fact it’s so wide that rather like the Great Wall of China, you can probably see it from space.That, and not techni

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Tags: Cybersecurity

Should I get CISM Certified?
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February 11, 2024
The Certified Information Systems Manager (CISM) qualification is provided by ISACA, and roughly on a par with it’s CISA IT audit qualification.It is a certification for IT security managers, and like CISA tries to strike a balance between technical IT knowledge and business understanding, with a

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Should I get CISA Certified?
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February 11, 2024
CISA is possibly the one ‘pure’ Information systems audit qualification that is recognised anywhere. It is balanced between technical IT knowledge and business understanding.There are other IT audit certifications – from the IIA’s aborted QiCA to supporting CPA type accounting quals and

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Tags: Cybersecurity

List of IT Audit Professional Bodies & Certifications
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February 10, 2024
The below list covers the key professional bodies and certifications to consider as part of an IT Audit career. Bear in mind that there are many different routes and the qualifications that are right for you will depend on your interests, professional background, current role, and goals.Academic stu

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Tags: Cybersecurity

What do auditors do all day?
Matt Palmer
February 09, 2024
If you’ve ever sat at your desk wondering what exactly the bunch of outsiders hanging out in the audit room find to do with their time, or if you’re thinking of a career in audit but just can’t figure out what you will actually be doing all day, this is the article for you.

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Tags: Cybersecurity, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation

An introduction to IT Audit & Information Assurance careers
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February 09, 2024



























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2 Board Memberships
Jersey Financial Services Commission
Jersey Financial Services Commission
January 01, 2021

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Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation

Appital
Appital
January 01, 2021

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Tags: Cybersecurity, Digital Disruption, FinTech

1 Executive
Jersey Cyber Security Centre
Jersey Cyber Security Centre
January 01, 2022

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Tags: Cybersecurity, National Security

1 Founder
Channel Islands Information Security Forum
Channel Islands Information Security Forum
January 01, 2014

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Tags: Cybersecurity, IT Leadership, Privacy

4 Influencer Awards
CSO 30 award 2024
CSOonline
November 28, 2024
Top 30 UK cyber security leaders 2024 - #4

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Tags: Cybersecurity

Jersey Tech Awards - Cybersecurity Award
Digital Jersey
April 26, 2024

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Tags: Cybersecurity

CSO30 Top Chief Information Security Officer
CSO Online
September 01, 2020

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Tags: Leadership

Security Leader of the Year Award
Information Age
September 01, 2018

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Tags: Leadership

3 Keynotes
Cyber Security in Jersey: Where next?
Channel Islands Cyber security Conference
October 17, 2024
Matt Palmer of JCSC discusses the cyber threats to Jersey and the Channel Islands, the impact of Artificial Intelligence on Cyber Security, and how we can counter the risk of complacency in the face of changing threats and technology.

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Tags: Cybersecurity, AI

Channel Islands Cyber Security Conference
Channel Islands Cyber Security Conference
January 10, 2023

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Tags: Cybersecurity, National Security

Wall St Journal Europe Conference
Wall St Journal
January 01, 2016

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Tags: Cybersecurity

5 Media Interviews
"Take it seriously and act now"
ITV
October 30, 2024
Cyber crime is all around us. It is happening across the world every single second of the day and the worrying part is it can happen anywhere, whether you are on a shopping trip or sending a work email.

Jersey's Director of Cyber Security, Matt Palmer says "it is scarily easy to hack somebody and gain access to their data or systems".

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Tags: Cybersecurity

TV: Artificial Intelligence
ITV
August 08, 2023

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Tags: Cybersecurity, AI

A Day in the Life of a CISO: Matt Palmer, Willis Towers Watson
Wall Street Journal
December 15, 2017
(This is the fourth in a regular series of features that outlines a typical day in the life of a chief information security officer, who are at the front lines of defending organizations against the rising tide of cybercrime.)

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Tags: Cybersecurity

Being a CISO in a changing threat and regulatory landscape
Information Age Magazine
January 01, 2007

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Tags: Cybersecurity, IT Leadership, Leadership

We are only as strong as our weakest link
Jersey Evening Post
December 31, 1969

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Tags: Cybersecurity

3 Podcasts
Creating a CERT on Jersey – Part Two
Information Security Forum
September 01, 2024
In part two of our CERT on Jersey, Matt Palmer, Director of the Jersey Cybersecurity Centre, continues his conversation with ISF Distinguished Analyst Paul Watts, and ISF Senior Analyst and Dear InfoSec host Mark Ward. Matt shares further insight into the set-up of a Computer Emergency Response Team and the issues associated with running the centre. He also shares his future plans for the centre now that it is fully operational.

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Creating a CERT on Jersey - part one
ISF
August 20, 2024
Matt Palmer, Director of the Jersey Cybersecurity Centre has been the driving force behind the creation of a Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) for Jersey – one of the Channel Islands. As the architect behind this initiative, Matt explains the circumstances that led to the realisation of its necessity, the efforts involved in bringing it to fruition, and the significant impact it has had since its creation. ISF Distinguished Analyst, Paul Watts and ISF Senior Analyst, and Dear Infosec podcast host, Mark Ward test his responses.

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Tags: Cybersecurity

Does Cybercrime pay?
Bailiwick Express
January 01, 2023

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Tags: Cybersecurity

2 Profiles
Wall St Journal Profile - Matt Palmer, cybersecurity
Wall St Journal
December 17, 2017
Profile in Wall Street Journal

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Tags: Cybersecurity

InfoSecurity Magazine
InfoSecurity Magazine
January 01, 2012

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Tags: Cybersecurity, IT Leadership

2 Speaking Engagements
ISF Annual Congress
ISF
January 01, 2016

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Tags: Cybersecurity

InfoSecurity Europe Conference
InfoSecurity Europe
January 01, 2014

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Tags: Cybersecurity

3 Videos
Careers in cybersecurity
Jersey Cyber Security Centre
January 10, 2024

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Tags: Careers, Cybersecurity

Responding to emerging threats
Jersey Cyber Security Centre
October 01, 2022

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Tags: Cybersecurity, Security

What is a CERT?
Jersey Cyber Security Centre
October 01, 2022

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Tags: Cybersecurity

1 Video
Video: Cyber Security
ITV
October 28, 2024
Cyber security explainer filmed by ITV

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Tags: Cybersecurity

1 Webinar
GDPR
InfoSecurity Magazine
January 04, 2018

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Tags: Cybersecurity, Privacy

1 Webinar
A CERT Insider's Look on Building Jersey's Cyber Resilience
InfoSecurity Magazine
September 10, 2024
The Jersey Cyber Security Centre (JCSC) has emerged as a vital pillar in safeguarding the digital landscape of the Channel Island. Led by Matt Palmer, the JCSC has played a pivotal role in establishing a Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) to address the growing cybersecurity threats faced by the region.
Join us for a fireside chat with Matt Palmer, where we delve into the journey that led to the creation of the JCSC. Discover the challenges and opportunities that drove the initiative and the significant impact it has had on enhancing cybersecurity in Jersey.
Learn about the JCSC's core missions and the critical tasks undertaken by its team. Gain insights into how the CERT provides essential services to businesses and organizations, helping them mitigate risks and respond effectively to cyber incidents.
We’ll also discuss the geopolitical and regulatory challenges faced by organizations in Jersey and how the JCSC is working to address these issues.
Join us to:
• Discover the origin story and impact of JCSC on the Channel Island’s cyber resilience
• Learn how businesses can collaborate with a CERT to enhance their cybersecurity
• Explore the challenges and opportunities presented by the evolving geopolitical and regulatory landscape

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Tags: Cybersecurity

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