Lesley Henderson

📽️ “Seconds save lives… Imagine if we can shave off minutes.” Recently, we invited spokespeople from police forces and fire services across the U.K. to share their perspectives on the ways in which AI is set to transform their operations. Hear their stories, alongside the latest from Jehan Wickramasuriya and Fergus Mayne on how Motorola Solutions is building AI based solutions to solve customers’ critical problems. A huge thank you to Lancashire Constabulary, Leicestershire Fire & Rescue, and Thames Valley Police for taking part and sharing their experiences.   #MotorolaSolutions #PublicSafety #AITransparency

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I've had this post-it on my desk for years 📌- I got it from a friend, and I think it's a great system of thinking about your work, career and values. I thought I'd share it in case it's helpful for others. It's a delightfully simple framework that evaluates opportunities and roles based Benefits, Culture, Purpose - to be fulfilled, a *minimum* of 2 out of 3 must fit. To break it down a bit: 1️⃣ Benefits - this one is mostly about compensation. Not time-off policies or foosball tables, mind you. 2️⃣ Culture (of autonomy) - this is the freedom to exercise your own judgment to deliver results. Just like you can't have taxation without representation, you can't have accountability without authority. 3️⃣ Purpose - this one's about meaning. Meaning can be different things - ambition of building something truly great, a greater societal good, or a deeply relevant artistic pursuit. This works well both for evaluating where you are right now, or whether you should accept a new opportunity. If you have 3 out of 3 it's perfection, but 2 out of 3 is acceptable because at the very least there are enough "resources" to grow a career. If it's less than two is a sign you are treading water, and change is needed to feel fulfilled (either emotionally or financially). This system is actually worth revisiting regularly even if you are happy - reflection is a great habit to have, and it helps spot problems sooner rather than later. P.S. It's also a good system because it's fairly versatile - you can swap out autonomy for clarity of expectations & guidelines and it'll still work. P.P.S. Excuse the tiny bitemarks, I have two cats who and post-it notes are their favorite food😺

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The 2025 Verizon Business Data Breach Investigations Report is out now, and the findings across EMEA are alarming! System intrusion breaches have nearly doubled to a staggering 53%, and a significant number of breaches are originating from inside organisations. This is a wake-up call for businesses to do more to strengthen their cybersecurity posture both internally and externally. Read the full report now and take action to protect your organisation: https://lnkd.in/eCiZm-aY #DBIR #Cybersecurity #EMEA #VerizonBusiness #CISODAY CISO community Nederland #CISO Evanta, a Gartner Company Gartner C-level Communities Beltug

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Great to make my debut this week for Information Security Buzz, with my interview with ARMO CEO Shauli Rozen talking about why Cloud-Endpoint-Application Detection and Response needed to be joined together for better visibility. The concept of its 'CADR' is to minimize the cloud attack surface and detect and respond to both unknown and known cyberattacks, while ensuring business continuity. https://lnkd.in/eQZ8PvNv

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Not everyone has a spare four hours to listen to a great Acquired podcast about Google, and thanks to a couple of recent weekend-long runs, I’m here to share some good stuff 😀 I’ve worked at Google, and I thought I knew most of the key milestones of their history, but in the episode, co-hosts Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal explain, using their unique approach, some of the most fascinating parts of Google’s evolution: 1. How the company created the web ecosystem to build a moat against Microsoft 2. How they successfully led the next platform evolution when the mobile paradigm came to exist with their bets on Android First, the web ecosystem. In the early 2000s, Microsoft was already way ahead in the tech market, having made its bet on hardware and downloadable software for that hardware. Google, on the other hand, was making a different bet. They started launching products that had (apparently) nothing to do with their original purpose: things like Gmail, Maps, Docs, and Sheets. However, by building a rich web ecosystem that spanned multiple areas, they laid the groundwork for indispensability. Today, Google has seven products with 1B+ users EACH. Moving on to Google’s brilliant navigation of a platform shift from web to mobile. Two decades ago, as smartphones were beginning to proliferate, Windows and Apple were dominating. Google had to figure out how to avoid missing the mobile platform play. So they did something witty: they went with a “less than free” model, which incentivized the distribution engine to prefer Android. With “less than free, ” Google let OEMs use their products for free AND whenever the phone owner Google-searched something that generated ad revenue, the manufacturer would get a cut. Meanwhile, Windows was charging OEMs to use their software. With OEMs benefiting financially from Android users’ Google searches, Google quickly captured 70-80% of the smartphone market in just a few years. There are several other great insights in the episode, which is linked in the comments. PS - A picture I took while listening to this episode.

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