Hazel Burton

Marketing Storyteller for IT Security

I'm the Marketing Storyteller for IT Security for Cisco's UK & Ireland region. That means I spend most of my time researching what those dastardly hackers are up to, and I also have a lot of conversations with my much cleverer research colleagues, in order to create content which seeks to inform people about the current threat landscape against businesses. IT Security is a subject I'm immensely passionate about, and what's most important to me is helping customers protect their livelihoods, and educating users not to leave the back door open.

Outside of Cisco a big part of my life is improvisational comedy - I participate in weekly workshops at The Improvisation Foundation and perform on stage with my lovely fellow workshoppers once a month.

Other than that I'm a big nerd when it comes to movies, as my blogs will no doubt unveil.

Articles

Small and Medium Business
Attractiveness to hackers

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Hazel Burton - August 17, 2017 - 0 Comments

Ahhh, modern technology. As an emerging business in 2018, there’s a whole host of brilliant applications that you can just take straight off the shelf, and integrate them immediately into…
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Security
Risk and Strategy: What you need to know from Cisco’s Midyear Cybersecurity Report

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Hazel Burton - August 11, 2017 - 0 Comments

Learn more about what cyber criminals are getting up to in this blog #CiscoMCR
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Security
How can your data be more helpful? The Wimbledon story

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Hazel Burton - July 14, 2017 - 0 Comments

Ahhh Wimbledon. The best two weeks of the year is unfortunately starting to draw to its inevitable conclusion, and I for one am going to miss it more than a
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Security
Nyetya Ransomware Attack: The ‘House of Cards’ Effect

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Hazel Burton - June 29, 2017 - 0 Comments

“The seed has been planted” This is one of the many unnerving lines uttered by Frank Underwood during his infamous ‘fourth wall’ monologues in Netflix’s House of Cards. In this
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Security
We need a different attitude towards cyber security

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Hazel Burton - June 14, 2017 - 0 Comments

When you look at security through a customers’ lens, complexity and fragmentation is one of their greatest enemies. Unfortunately, the security industry has, over the years, made this incredibly difficult…
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Security
Identifying the Rogue One

5 min read
Hazel Burton - May 4, 2017 - 2 Comments

First of all, a very happy Star Wars Day to you, from all at Cisco. May the fourth be with you all as we celebrate the greatest movie franchise of
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Security
Running with a winning cybersecurity strategy

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Hazel Burton - April 21, 2017 - 0 Comments

For anyone running the London Marathon this weekend, I just wanted to send huge amounts of good fortune and positive vibes. Just remember that for every mile you run, you’re
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Security
World Poetry Day: Fitzgerald

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Hazel Burton - March 21, 2017 - 0 Comments

Fitzgerald was a cyber hacker He could have been anything – even a linebacker But all his mates just called him a slacker One day Fitz decided to take
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Security
If cybersecurity was a pizza…

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Hazel Burton - February 8, 2017 - 0 Comments

There aren’t many things I take more seriously than pizza. Beyond the wellbeing of my family and equal human rights, putting together an epic pizza comes in at a close
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Security
How to deal with the unpredictability of hackers

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Hazel Burton - December 23, 2016 - 4 Comments

Things that weren’t easy to predict in 2016: • The EU Referendum results • The United States Presidential Election • The sheer sense of joy you felt when watching Ed Balls Cha Cha
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