Crispin Lockwood-Fetch has built an impressive career in cybersecurity.
He has the qualifications. The job titles. The boardroom confidence. And a PowerPoint for every occasion.
There’s just one problem: he isn’t actually very good at cybersecurity.
**Certified in Sounding Official: The Accidental Rise of Britain’s Worst CISO** follows Crispin’s remarkable progress from IT support to the executive suite, propelled by confidence, corporate jargon and an uncanny ability to be standing near good work when somebody else finishes it.
Usually, that somebody is Lauren Barnell — the highly capable security professional whose private logs tell a rather different version of events.
When a serious cyber incident finally puts Crispin’s leadership to the test, twenty years of reassuring dashboards, strategic vocabulary and carefully managed appearances collide with reality.
A dry British workplace satire about cybersecurity, corporate life, management speak and the peculiar organisational talent of sounding considerably more competent than you are.
If you’ve ever sat through a meeting where the person presenting the work clearly wasn’t the person who did it, this may feel uncomfortably familiar.
