'Famous Pete Wood Security'

My friends take great pleasure in teasing me about my role in promoting our firm through public speaking, TV and radio interviews and so on ... hence calling me 'Famous Pete Wood Security'.

I speak at international IT security conferences and specialist groups, provide commentary on security issues for television and radio and recently appeared in the BBC1 documentaries " ID Fraud: They Stole My Life" and "ID Fraud: Outnumbered" with my partner Didi Barnes.

As Chief of Operations at First Base Technologies, I specialise in penetration testing corporate networks and performing social engineering exercises. I also chair our IT security user group at white-hats.co.uk

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For more information on my role as a presenter and commentator on ethical hacking and ID fraud issues, e-mail me: peterw[at]firstbase.co.uk

Fancy some bedtime reading?
Preventing Identity Theft: The Importance of Authentication

This guide provides an overview of the ways in which identity theft cantake place and the type of threats that are subsequently posed. In clear, non-technical terms it outlines the role of authentication in countering these threats, in particular in addressing the problems posed by the current use of passwords as a means of authenticating users of IT systems.