Rosalind Grindrod

Former Head of Security Services

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Profile

Rosalind, who joined Opencast in August 2023, started her career in cyber security consultancy. She has experience delivering a wide variety of projects, including cyber transformation initiatives, managed service implementations, and ethical hacking/red teaming engagements.

Rosalind is passionate about the cyber industry and regularly speaks at and contributes to cyber events across the UK.

At Opencast, she led the implementation of Secure by Design, a unified approach to cyber security across the company's project teams, and supported our clients by providing specialist guidance on all aspects of cyber security.

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Quantum computing and its impact on cyber security: a UK perspective

Quantum computing is no longer a distant frontier—it’s a fast-approaching commercial viability, with major breakthroughs expected within the next five to ten years. For UK businesses, particularly those in data-sensitive sectors like finance, healthcare, and telecommunications, the technology poses both a transformative opportunity and a looming cyber security threat.

Cyber Security

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New cyber legislation – what businesses need to know

New cyber legislation from both the EU and the UK will provide added security assurance and introduce new requirements for businesses. By ensuring that more essential digital services are protected, the changes will significantly shape the future of data protection for UK organisations – with higher fines and penalties for organisations that fail to comply.

Cyber Security

Data & AI

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Tracing missing people through open source intelligence

Missing persons represent a serious and ongoing challenge to governments around the world. The size and complexity of this challenge prompted Opencast to join a wider team to contribute to improving outcomes of cases of missing persons through the use of open source intelligence. Rosalind Grindrod, our Head of Security Services, reports.

Cyber Security

Software Development

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Quantum computing and its impact on cyber security: a UK perspective

Cyber Security

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New cyber legislation – what businesses need to know

Cyber Security

Data & AI