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light from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
“What that means on a day-to-day basis
is that I check the activity of hacker groups
and develop ways to detect and track
that hacking activity. Companies will
generally approach us to ask us to audit
their cybersecurity and help them protect
their systems.
“You find that firms will realise that they’ve
been hacked and quickly want a solution.
So that’s something I get pulled in to,
helping to work with firms to see where
the weaknesses are in their systems and
where the breach is.”
John left Framlingham College a few
years ago to go straight to Bath University
to study Maths, where he excelled, before
JOHN SOUTHWORTH (R06-13)
taking an internship at PwC cybersecurity
which sparked an unexpected fascination
‘It’s sometimes a bit like detective work’:
with the sector. He says: “I kind of
OF John Southworth on his senior role in
stumbled into this. I feel quite lucky to be
the fast-growing cybersecurity industry.
honest. When I was at university, I was
It’s always a clear sign that you’re
applying for all kinds of internships at
interviewing someone interesting when
traditional financial service firms and then
they have to gain clearance from their
I saw PwC were recruiting for interns in
employer to speak to you.
their cybersecurity team. The internship
was great for me as I realised, completely
“I work as a Senior Threat Intelligence
by accident really, that this was something
Analyst,” John Southworth says at the start
I was interested in.”
of our virtual call, once he’d got the green
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