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Striking the right chord in cybersecurity<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-06-26 03:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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A pivot from a career in a rock band to cybersecurity may not be a conventional career path, but it shows how Toby Wilmington, Co-Founder and CEO of Periphery, has always gone against the grain.<\/p>\n

However, his unquenchable curiosity about understanding how things work, including building computers and getting to grips with software, has translated well into a career in cybersecurity, which requires an inquisitive mind and a knack for technology.<\/p>\n

Wilmington explained that, while playing in a rock band, having children required him to look at potential careers that would help him support his family \u2013 noting that income in the music industry is not always \u201creliable\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI became a Microsoft certified engineer, I did a few networking courses,\u201d said Wilmington. \u201cI was self taught. But then I also did some of the certifications in networking and computing. I never went to university, I did this all on the job, but fundamentally [it was] the path to security.\u201d<\/p>\n

At that time, security was viewed as the responsibility of the IT team, which has since undergone a paradigm shift: companies recognise the importance of distributing these responsibilities and having security-literate employees. If an employee isn\u2019t taught how to recognise a phishing email and unwittingly clicks on what they believe to be a communication from their boss, they potentially open up their company\u2019s system to threat actors, and the fallout can be immense.<\/p>\n

The threats have evolved too. \u201cWe had worms and Trojans and early malware and things like this,\u201d said Wilmington, referring to when he started out. \u201cYou started to see a little bit of phishing, but it was more like adware. The start of common cyber threats, I\u2019d say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilmington helped a team build out Google Translate and led the engineering team; went to BAE Systems to build security capabilities for enterprises where he met his co-founders, Kane Ryans, who is the CTO of Periphery, and Adam Massey, Chief Security Officer,…<\/p>\n

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