{"id":1267,"date":"2026-05-15T17:58:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/datadecoded.com\/mcr\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=1267"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:05:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:05:47","slug":"david-mckenzie","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/datadecoded.com\/mcr\/speakers\/david-mckenzie\/","title":{"rendered":"David McKenzie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Cyber Security and IT Professional with over 25 years experience in helping build and protect organisations and the people that work in them.<br \/>\nA self-admitted geek, who still finds wonder in things, I try to be a doer of good deeds.<\/p>\n<p>Current and previous roles including<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Co-Founder &#8211; Damn Good Security Ltd &#8211; cyber security consultancy and managed services for companies of all sizes.<\/li>\n<li>Cyber Security Operations Director @ National Grid \/ National Gas, Head of Managed Security Services, Principal Consultant in Managed Services, Senior Technical<\/li>\n<li>Consultant, and Senior Incident Responder<\/li>\n<li>Co-Founder &#8211; Hack Glasgow &#8211; Scotland&#8217;s annual community led Cyber Security Conference<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Volunteer, Presenter, MC and Mentor at various events and levels from student events through to customer, professional and CISO panels.<\/p>\n<p>As a way of contributing and helping the cyber community I regularly volunteer for cyber groups, as a mentor to new speakers, panel member on cyber discussions, conference volunteer and as a presenter covering Keynotes, technical talks, Leadership and career topics.<\/p>\n<p>Contributing Author : 97 Things Every Information Security Professional Should Know<\/p>\n<p>Interesting Note: Nobody has ever seen Batman and David in the same room at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1271,"template":"","speaker-category":[],"class_list":["post-1267","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"position":"Co-founder and Director","business":1269,"email":"","phone":"","website":"","address":"","linkedin":"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/davewmckenzie","facebook":"","instagram":"","youtube":"","x":"","bluesky":"","whatsapp":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - 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