Aspire's Leading Cyber Security Event Is Returning to Glasgow
Secure Your Competitive Advantage
Tuesday 21 Oct 2025 | Voco Grand Central Glasgow | 9:00-17:00
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Date: Tuesday 21 October 2025
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Time: 9:00-17:00 (with networking drinks to follow)
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Venue: Voco Grand Central Glasgow, 99 Gordon Street, G1 3SF
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This year’s Cyber Summit delivers frontline insights, expert speakers and live demonstrations designed to sharpen your organisation’s defences.
Hear directly from cyber specialists, threat responders and industry leaders as they unpack real-world attacks, share the latest threat intelligence and offer practical strategies you can act on.
Places are limited, and this is one event you don’t want to miss if you are serious about staying ahead of today’s cyber threats.
Check out last year's event

Knowledge from leading cyber security experts

The opportunity to network with leading organisations

Insights to tackle modern cyber security challenges

CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk — endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data.
Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities.
Learn more at: www.crowdstrike.com

Extreme Networks
Extreme Networks, Inc. (EXTR) is a leader in cloud networking focused on delivering services that connect devices, applications, and people in new ways. We push the boundaries of technology leveraging the powers of machine learning, artificial intelligence, analytics, and automation. Over 50,000 customers globally trust our end-to-end, cloud-driven networking solutions and rely on our top-rated services and support to accelerate their digital transformation efforts and deliver progress like never before.
Learn more at: www.extremenetworks.com
Fortinet
Fortinet (Nasdaq: FTNT) is a driving force in the evolution of cybersecurity and the convergence of networking and security. Our mission is to secure people, devices, and data everywhere, and today we deliver cybersecurity everywhere our customers need it with the largest integrated portfolio of over 50 enterprise-grade products. Well over half a million customers trust Fortinet's solutions, which are among the most deployed, most patented, and most validated in the industry. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com
, the Fortinet Blog, and FortiGuard Labs.

Microsoft
Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organisation to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters.
Learn more at: www.microsoft.com

Mitel
Mitel is the market leader in unified communications, trusted by enterprises of all sizes and industries. With decades of experience and a global presence, we’re experts at solving the challenges of staying connected in today’s fast-paced world. Our proven, resilient solutions ensure your organization communicates securely and is ready for whatever comes next.
Learn more at: www.mitel.com

CSS Assure
We are dedicated to securing your digital technology with expertise in complex compliance frameworks, data protection, certification, and cyber security. Our team of experts specialise in developing and implementing data protection, cyber and artificial intelligence compliance programs tailored to your needs.
Learn more at: www.cssassure.com

Cyber Fraud Centre Scotland
The Cyber and Fraud Centre – Scotland is an employee-first organisation that exists to ensure Scottish organisations are as resilient as they can be against cyber and fraud crime. In the eventuality of a cyber or fraud attack, the centre and its partners can support organisations through it and help them get back in operation.
We are a respected voice in cyber and fraud, bringing together the Scottish Government, Police Scotland, and the Scottish business community.
Learn more at: www.cyberfraudcentre.com

Cyber North
The CyberNorth community is made up of the cyber security businesses and influencers, users of cyber security services, academia, public sector and individual innovators and thought leaders. The community provides a hub of peer led expertise, innovation potential, shared learning, sector leadership and the cluster framework facilitates a means to collaborate and connect as cyber security businesses, enabling our region to operate on a national platform more competitively and with a united profile.
Learn more at: www.cybernorth.biz

Exclaimer
Exclaimer is the leading provider of email signature management solutions for Microsoft and Google email services. Its scalable cloud-based platform enables organizations to centrally manage and automate email signatures, ensuring regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, and brand consistency. Built for IT teams, Exclaimer simplifies administration by eliminating manual updates, reducing security risks, and maintaining full control over corporate email communications. Exclaimer delivers 20 billion email signatures from 9 million email account across 70,000 organizations annually. Its diverse customer base includes Sony, Mattel, Bank of America, NBC, the Government of Canada, the BBC, and the Academy Awards.
Learn more at: www.exclaimer.com
Flyte
As a Microsoft Solutions Partner, Flyte are a market leader with the Microsoft 365 platform and the Modern Workspace. With an experienced, multi-disciplinary team, Flyte deliver bespoke Power Platform development, M365 adoption/consultation and native Microsoft Teams development.
Learn more at: www.flyte.cloud

NEBRC

Punk Security
We’re on a mission to make the ideals of DevSecOps achievable and accessible to businesses of all sizes. DevSecOps is difficult to get right for even the largest businesses, but is completely out of reach for any businesses without dedicated application security professionals. We want to change that.
We are able to deliver a wide range of cyber security services, including traditional cyber security services and the more specialist DevSecOps consulting services.
Learn more at: www.punksecurity.co.uk

Veeam
Veeam®, the #1 global market leader in data resilience, believes every business should be able to bounce forward after a disruption with the confidence and control of all their data whenever and wherever they need it. We’re obsessed with creating innovative ways to help our customers achieve radical resilience.
Veeam solutions are purpose-built for powering data resilience by providing data backup, data recovery, data freedom, data security, and data intelligence. IT and security leaders rest easy knowing that their apps and data are protected and always available across their cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes environments.
Learn more at www.veeam.com

YPO
For over 50 years, YPO has equipped the UK public sector with cutting-edge procurement frameworks, including ICT, digital transformation, and cloud solutions. By driving efficiency and fostering innovation, YPO helps organisations future-proof their services for the digital age.
Learn more at: www.ypo.co.uk

Wasabi
Wasabi is on a mission to store all the world’s data by making data storage simple,baffordable, predictable, and secure. If you have data to store, whether it’s backups, medical images, surveillance videos, financial data, multimedia, or scientific data, our pledge is to always be the cheapest, fastest, most secure and reliable cloud storage in the world. It’s all we do, and we do it better than anyone.
Learn more at: www.wasabi.com

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Headline Speaker:
Tony Sales
Britain’s greatest former fraudster
Having transitioned from a criminal past to become a trusted advisor, Tony brings a rare and invaluable perspective that has made him a sought-after voice in the world of cyber security. He works closely with law enforcement, academia and global brands, helping to shape fraud prevention strategies and tackle emerging threats head-on.
Known for his unmatched insight into how criminals think and operate, Tony communicates risk in a way few others can — cutting through complexity to reveal the real vulnerabilities facing organisations today. A regular presence on TV and radio, his sessions are thought-provoking, eye-opening and not to be missed.
Paul Abbott
Consulting Specialist
Back by popular demand, Paul Abbott returns to the Cyber Summit 25 stage with a new take on one of the UK’s most high-profile ransomware attacks.
As former Director of KNP Logistics Group, Paul shares his first-hand experience of the breach that led the 158-year-old company into administration. Joined by Aspire’s SOC team, he explores how the attack unfolded, what could have been done differently and what others can learn through live “what if” scenarios. This is a rare blend of real-world leadership insight and frontline technical analysis, and his session is not to be missed.
Headline Speaker:
Ben Hanson
Senior Security Strategist and Advisor at Microsoft
Ben Hanson is a Senior Security Strategist at Microsoft with over 25 years of experience in cyber security and technology. He advises global financial institutions on aligning security with business goals and cultural change.
An insightful speaker, Ben brings clarity to complex topics, engaging audiences from boardrooms to security teams. His inclusive style and real-world insights make him a standout voice in the cyber security space.
The speakers were great. A good variety and very open and honest.

The event struck a good balance between imparting the seriousness of the topics with optimism and practical advice.

I think the whole event was very well put together and delivered with excellent speakers.


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