David Booth

David Booth

Director of Managed Cloud Services and IT Support at PicNet

David joined PicNet in 2004 and has held several roles straddling the breadth of IT. David has worked on numerous projects for a number of medium and large size companies and Government agencies. David consults as a vCIO, Senior Project Manager, Business Analyst and drives the IT Support and Managed Cloud Services at PicNet.

David Booth

August 14, 2026

Ransomware early warning: watching leak sites for your name, your clients and your suppliers

On 13 August the Clop ransomware group posted claims naming Shell and Philips, and both companies confirmed they had experienced a security incident once the claims were reported (NL Times). Philips called it an attempted attack on a specific server ...

#ransomware#threat-intelligence#incident-response#supply-chain#notifiable-data-breaches

in artificial-intelligence cyber-security

David Booth

August 12, 2026

An LLM-triaged SIEM: reviewing thousands of security events a day with a small team

Most health providers we talk to have the same shape of problem. Log sources everywhere, a security budget that funds part of one person's week, and an alert console nobody has opened since the fortnight after it was installed. The logs are being col ...

#siem#security-operations#llm#prompt-injection#health-it

in artificial-intelligence healthcare

David Booth

August 12, 2026

Practical AI in Cyber Security: the series

This series is about how a small senior team covers security operations work that normally needs a much bigger roster. Everything we write about comes out of a platform we built and still run: more than 100 scheduled checks, executing around the cloc ...

#cyber-security#llm#security-operations#essential-eight#monitoring

in artificial-intelligence healthcare

David Booth

March 28, 2018

Using Trello to manage tasks and issues in Software Projects

We use Trello in our software projects to help us better manage tasks and issues as well as to increase efficiency through better collaboration between the developers, BA, QA/testers and Project Managers. I'm going to share my experience with using T ...

#agile#project-management#scrum#trello

in it-support

David Booth

October 24, 2016

Cloud is changing the IT Professional's Skills

The shift from "traditional" IT to cloud IT is well and truly underway. Many public, private organisations and government agencies are moving a part or all of their IT systems into the cloud. The move to the cloud has resulted in a big change in the ...

#cloud-computing#devops#employment#skills

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David Booth

July 25, 2016

Some Tips for a smooth IT Transition into a new office

Having being involved in several office moves and projects to setup IT services in the new office, I have seen some moves that have gone fairly smoothly and some moves that have been very challenging. In this blog entry I will share some of my tips f ...

#it-project-management#new-office-setup#office-move

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