Personal site

Matt Palmer

Risk & cyber resilience leader. Former CISO. NED.

Director of Jersey Cyber Security Centre and Guernsey Cyber Security Centre, leading national cyber resilience for two international financial centres.

Selected projects Incidentally →

Featured writing

From Incidentally

All posts →

October 2026

introducing The CISO Game

A free game lets security leaders and boards experience the trade-offs and real-time pressures of cyber risk without waiting for a live crisis to teach them.

August 2026

The red flag for AI?

Mandatory human checkpoint before every AI decision mirrors the 1865 Red Flag Act—a control that kills the speed advantage while real risks need different management.

October 2025

The Emperor’s New Clothes: Why Compulsory CBTs and Phishing Tests Keep Failing

Most phishing training, and indeed most compulsory computer-based training (CBT) modules, are largely ineffective in reducing incidents - and are therefore a waste of time and resources. Finally we have the data we need to challenge this, and find a better path to user awareness

Selected projects

Things I'm building

All projects →

2025

Cyber Incident Interoperability

How CSIRTs, emergency services and private sector responders prepare to work together effectively during a cyber or hybrid incident.

ongoing

G-AORG, 'Duchess of Brittany'

Preserving an historic de Havilland Heron aircraft based in Jersey.

2020–present

Jersey & Guernsey Cyber Security Centres

A new capability to prepare, protect and defend the Channel Islands from cyber threats.

About

Matt Palmer is a Risk & cyber security specialist with leadership experience across regulated industry, national infrastructure, and the public sector.

Read the longer version →

Media & interviews

In conversation

All media →