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Fred Hickling
Cyber Security Trainer
Fred is a trainer and consultant specializing in cybersecurity. His educational background is in physics, having a BSc and a couple of master’s degrees, one in astrophysics and the other in nuclear and particle physics. However, most of his professional life has been spent in IT, covering a broad range of activities including system management, programming (originally in C but more recently Python, Ruby, et al), database design and management as well as networking. From networking, it was a natural progression to IT security and cybersecurity more generally. As well as having many professional credentials reflecting the breadth of his experience (including CASP, CISM, and CCISO), he is a Certified Ethical Hacker and a GCHQ Certified Trainer for a number of cybersecurity courses, including CISMP, CISSP, and GDPR Practitioner.