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Since the COVID-19 pandemic , pets video-bombing online meetings have amassed millions of views . As such , when I meet John Shier on a video call , he ’ s not alone . “ This is a little French bulldog that we ' re dog-sitting , and every once in a while he gets a little excited !”
Dog-sitting in Toronto is not Shier ’ s full time occupation – he is a Senior Security Advisor and Senior Research Scientist at software development company Sophos .
“ I ' m usually a Senior Security Advisor for the press , but what that really means is I work in the office of the Chief Technology Officer as a liaison as well as those of all the different research groups within the organisation ,” Shier explains . “ We have our Sophos labs that do threat research , our Sophos AI team , an anti-exploit team , and our MDR group , which generates intelligence through the activities that they do monitoring our customers ' environments . A subset of that is the Rapid Response Group , which is our Incident Response Investigation Group .” Shier takes all of that information , synthesises it and then contextualises it within the security industry . “ I look at what we are seeing as a broader industry ; how does that fit and how does security itself fit within it ? The idea is to be able to hopefully provide advice on how to better protect individuals and companies , as we ' re all trying to navigate this crazy digital world .”
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