David Stubley

CEO, 7 Elements

Founder of 7 Elements, David Stubley brings over 17 years of experience within the technical security market, where he has held senior level positions within global blue-chip organisations. In this capacity, he was involved in the procurement of external security consultancy and testing resources. This valuable experience inspired Stubley to build a company that he himself would have wanted to work with during this time. A security testing and consultancy company that was responsive, technically astute and delivered tailored security testing as per organisation needs rather than off-the-shelf solutions.

Business Email Compromise: Protecting the Enterprise

Presented by David Stubley • September 16, 2019

What does a successful compromise of an organisation's email system look like, and what can we do to protect ourselves? This talk will use real-life case studies from recent incidents to dissect the anatomy of a modern Business Email Compromise attack. Attend this session for expert insight on: Current attack...

Anatomy of a BEC Attack

Presented by David Stubley • August 30, 2018

This session looks at two real-life case studies, with different outcomes from the same initial starting point for two companies. The first led to £140k loss due to malicious invoicing; the second led to data exfiltration and reputational damage (as well as ICO reporting due to GDPR). Malicious actors use common...

Equifax Breach: Long-term Implications. What Does It Mean for Europe?

Presented by Christopher Greany , Mathew J. Schwartz , David Stubley , Terry Wilson • September 20, 2017

Will the Equifax breach upend the rules of the data breach notification game? Will it even be discussed in another year? Already, the breach is leading to tough questions about how personal data gets stored, sold and secured - or not - in the United States. Equifax also should consider itself lucky that it didn't lose...

Disaster Strikes: Here's Your Incident Response Playbook

Presented by David Stubley • September 8, 2017

After a breach, businesses need to know their incident response from their digital forensics. Hint: Forensics enables organizations to know what happened, when and how, to guide incident responders as they defuse the problem, block further exploits and quickly restore all systems and data. Incident response expert...

Panel: We've Been Breached: Now What? How to Effectively Work with Law Enforcement and Regulators

Presented by Efrene G Sakilayan , Mathew J. Schwartz , David Stubley • September 6, 2017

Too many organizations continue to address breach response from a reactive mode - having a crude disaster-recovery plan in place in case something "does" happen, rather than accepting that something "will" happen and proactively preparing for it. In this session, a panel of legal, technical and law-enforcement experts...