GDS Group

We don't just sell Identity, we use it on ourselves first. 97% compliance across our own global workforce in 21 days without slowing the business down. It's important to test it on ourselves first, before we ask anyone else to trust us with theirs! happy to provide materials to anyone currently reviewing Access management / Identity across their organization!

Peak season doesn’t create vulnerabilities. It exposes the ones already there 👀 More users. More access points. More pressure on systems. Smaller issues suddenly become major operational problems fast. One thing I keep hearing in conversations is that ransomware actors know exactly when organizations are stretched thin and response times slow down. The teams that prepare before demand spikes are the ones that avoid the painful downtime later 🔐 A few areas that continue to stand out: • Access control • Real-time visibility • Faster incident response • Infrastructure resilience Solid breakdown here on where organizations are prioritizing cybersecurity investments ahead of peak demand: https://usclaro.co/4swChsP

We're Hiring 🥳 For anyone looking for their next BDR / SDR role, we have an exciting opportunity. Anyone in my network, feel free to reach out. 🙌

To everyone who cheered, donated to Bristol Mind , or sent a "you've got this" text: you are the real MVP'ss. You saw the best of me during the training - now you get to see the worst of me as I enter a three-week period of total hibernation and relaxation. Also, huge shout out to everyone else who completed the AJ Bell Bristol Half Marathon on Sunday! If you need me for anything involving standing, walking, or "hopping on a quick call," please try again in late May. I am officially off the grid and horizontal... See you on the other side of this nap 🏅💤 #BristolHalfMarathon2026 #Icantfeelmylegs

And that’s a wrap 👏 Five months in the making, international travel, and a fantastic opportunity to meet and collaborate with security leaders in the United States capital, all coming together at the GDS Security Insight Summit at MGM National Harbor. I thoroughly enjoyed working with each attending executive. The discussions were thoughtful, candid, and genuinely forward looking. A huge thank you to an exceptional team who made this possible: David Armstrong-Abbott , Maia Langford , Pratik Gurung , Max Burden , Zachariah Durojaye and Henry Bragg . Thank you as well to our contributors for shaping the discussion: Nigel Miller , Rahul Patel, Allan Liska, Jim G., Greg Clark, Phil Sewell, Randy Raw , Alfredo Hickman, Robb Miller, Yasha Bajaj, Joseph Noonan, John Caruthers, JP Calderon Del Vecchio, Corynne Golden, Frank Ferdowsian, Vibhuti R Sinha, David Chapman, Bob Fabien Zinga, Ryan Sparks and Todd Vancil. Several themes came through strongly across the summit. Leadership is moving from experts to orchestrators. In a world of instant answers, the value of leadership is shifting towards setting direction, asking better questions and enabling teams to think and act effectively. Compliance is giving way to continuous resilience. Being audit ready is no longer sufficient. Organisations are focusing on evidence based security, continuous visibility and reducing real world risk across silos. AI is changing both the speed and the model. Attack timelines are compressing significantly, while defence is evolving towards more autonomous and AI augmented approaches. Traditional models are being outpaced. The attack surface continues to expand faster than control. From AI identities to connected devices and fragmented data, risk is spreading across domains that were never designed to be secured together. This is forcing a rethink of visibility, ownership and governance. This leads to a question many leaders kept returning to. If AI is accelerating both attackers and defenders at the same pace, what will truly differentiate resilient organisations from vulnerable ones. Looking forward to continuing the conversation.

In just over 2 weeks, my husband & I will run alongside my brother & sister-in-law Victoria Payne and a few of our friends for my gorgeous niece (their beautiful daughter) Olivia. We are raising money for the Starlight ward at Bristol Childrens Hospital where Olivia spent most of last year after being diagnosed with Ewings Sarcoma in December 2024, shortly after turning 3 years old and only three weeks after her baby brother was born. Olivia required an emergency laminectomy to relieve spinal cord compression caused by the tumour or she would have been paralysed. She has gone through 14 cycles of chemotherapy, 19 blood transfusions and 33 platelet transfusions. She has needed a morphine driver twice, TPN, numerous bags of fluid, antibiotics — and a 6-week stay in London for 30 proton therapy sessions, all under general anaesthetic. This little girl is nothing short of amazing but so are the ward and the staff of Starlight so that's why we are hoping to raise as much as possible so that the Starlight Ward can continue to treat poorly children like Olivia, making each day as normal as possible for them whilst they undergo such gruelling treatment. Every donation, no matter how big or small, makes a huge difference ❤ https://lnkd.in/e8755KBT

I’m currently booking new clients for 2026 through Fiona Smart Styling. I specialize in helping leaders, founders, and corporate teams align their image with their ambition through: • Corporate styling workshops & executive presence • Private personal styling • One-off event styling • Complete wardrobe transformations If you or your organization are looking to elevate how you show up — in meetings, on stage, or in front of clients — I’d love to connect. 📩 DM me or visit fionasmartstyling.com — Fiona Smart #OpenToWork About me: 👗Founder of FSS & Style Watch. 🌎 I’m based in Brooklyn, NYC but open to global clients.