Ben Smith

Head of Strategy - Security Architecture & Engineering

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Career highlights

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Ben is an experienced, cross-discipline IT consultant who has performed many individual contributor and leadership roles within consultancies, system integrators, telecommunication providers and financial services organisations. His career spans over twenty years and multiple countries, with deep experience in engineering, design, architecture, leadership, cybersecurity, delivery management and operational disciplines.

Ben has a particular affinity for optimising IT delivery functions and is frequently tasked with uplifting the capability of IT units; improving operational stability, staff engagement and delivery efficiency. He has a long history of applying agility and DevOps engineering techniques at scale to ensure long term, stable and pragmatic delivery.

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FarCry Core Framework - Multiple Issues

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Silverstripe – Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

With local organisation admin credentials, an attacker can exploit the API to create, delete, or revert virtual machine snapshots in other organisations’ Virtual Data Centres (VDCs), breaching isolation boundaries.

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