🎉 New Episode "The Oldest Con, the Newest Tools"
An Interview with Sarah Armstrong-Smith
Recorded On Location At Infosecurity Europe 2026

Marco Ciappelli interviews Sarah Armstrong-Smith, former Chief Security Advisor at Microsoft and Executive Director of Secure Horizons, for An Analog Brain In A Digital Age — On Location at #InfoSecurityEurope2026.

Part of the On Location Coverage of InfoSecurity Europe 2026 with Sean Martin And Marco Ciappelli

If you've ever wondered why we keep spending more on cybersecurity and keep losing, this conversation is for you.

I sat down with Sarah Armstrong-Smith — former Chief Security Advisor at Microsoft, now Executive Director of Secure Horizons — and she said the quiet part plainly: whatever we're doing isn't working. More tools, more money, more AI, and it keeps getting worse. Attack, wake-up call, attack, wake-up call. How many do we need?

There's a con called the Spanish Prisoner. It's four hundred years old, and it's the same email in your spam folder today. The tools change. The prehistoric brain they exploit does not. That's why this was never only an IT problem.

One statistic, then: nearly half of all UK crime is now #fraud or #cyber, and about 1% of policing is pointed at it. We fund what we can see. The crime that empties our accounts happens where we've agreed not to look.

Episode is live.

— Marco

🥁 🎶 A very big THANK YOU to our Infosecurity Europe 2026 Full Coverage Sponsors: Corelight · Qualys · Sumo Logic 👏 👏 👏

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I'll be at #infosecurityeurope2026 in London this year for the first time in June, our #Cytidel squad has a stand.

London is good for a rave I hear

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Still the weekend, playing some music 🎸 🎶 and...
...still tinking about Infosecurity Europe 😉

So, yesterday I posted about the editorial conversations I'm already booking for #InfosecurityEurope2026 — and the response has been wonderful. Pitches landing, ideas flowing, the kind of corridor energy that makes me love this work.

Here's the other side of what we do at the show:

Studio C60 / ITSPmagazine has covered Infosec since 2018, and we'll be on the ground again with Sean Martin and me June 2–4 at ExCeL London. If your company has a story worth telling — a launch, a piece of research, a perspective that moves past the usual vendor narrative — we have three ways to tell it:

🎤 Event Coverage Sponsorship — full on-location partnership across the three days, with editorial, video, and audience reach

🎙️ On Location Brand Briefing — a focused recorded conversation at the show

🎧 Brand Highlight — a short, 5-minute conversation that gets your story in front of our audience without the long-form commitment

We keep editorial and brand storytelling separate — that's why both work. The editorial conversations stay editorial. The brand stories get told with the same craft, the same care, and the same on-location production quality you'd expect from a media partner who's been doing this for the better part of a decade.

See what that looks like in practice — RSAC 2026 coverage just wrapped, Black Hat is getting busy, and Infosec is already taking shape.

See all our coverages: https://www.itspmagazine.com/technology-and-cybersecurity-conference-coverage

You can book directly from the page, or DM me with questions and we'll take it from there.

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