GovInfoSecurity Compliance Twitter Get Permission Ciaran Martin, former director of the U.K. National Cyber Security Center, spoke Thursday at the AusCERT computer security conference. To defend against cyberattacks, it's important to "demystify" cybersecurity and break it into risks that can be managed by any organization, says Ciaran Martin, the former director of the U.K. National Cyber Security Center. In a Thursday keynote speech at the AusCERT computer security conference in Australia, Martin, now a professor at Oxford University, said the notion that cyber incidents can't be stopped is false. In the case of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack in the U.S., the picture emerging is one of criminals in over their heads, he said. The DarkSide group and its affiliates consistently exploit basic weaknesses in corporate security, he points out (see