In this episode of Communicating Cyber, Robin sits down with Simon Goldsmith, Chief Information Security Officer at OVO, to explore how to make security meaningful when change is constant and technology moves fast.

Simon shares lessons from a career that’s taken him from mechanical engineering in Turin, to electronic warfare for the MOD, to retail, financial services, and now leading security at a digital-first energy company.

We talk about why systems thinking beats simply “adding more armour”, how storytelling and analogies open doors with executives and the challenge of “good enough” security and how to reframe it.