A departure from normal posts in honour of World Mental Health Day. Anyone, no matter how seemingly professional, positive, strong-willed and ‘together’ can suffer from depression. It can be situational; caused by […]
Depression – The Age, Gender, Strength, Intelligence & Determination Agnostic Disease.
Security GRC Challenges: System Assessments – Security Vs Delivery
First of what may turn into a series of GRC day job related posts. Here I’m highlighting challenges for anyone involved with system security audits or assessments. This isn’t about merits of various […]
Are You A Peeple Person?
It’s a tough trick to put gut reactions in a box, but that’s what I’m trying to do (a tidge unsuccessfully). I’m not now claiming some intellectual high ground, just pausing […]
Boy That Snow(den)balled – 500K Followers In Four Hours
At about 7pm I noticed a bit of a kerfuffle building on Twitter. Then I saw this tweet: Edward Snowden himself taking the Twitter plunge and like iron filings to an industrial […]
Period Cybersecurity Drama: Fear, Uncertainty & Downton
An old fashioned tale of reporting lines impacting effective communication, missing due diligence, disgruntled insiders, social engineering, technical risk blinkers, political incident response and risk owners not being armed with the information they need.
Diary Of An InfoSec Kid – Mindfulness, Moshi Monsters & Minecraft
A journey from first internet encounters to Minecraft mods, while mindful of the risks and benefits of online adventuring
Cybersecurity G&T – Investing yourself in engagement and education
This isn’t about getting your staff drunk on tonic infused Hendricks, Bombay Sapphire, or Beefeater (depending on your office-hours drinking policy), this is about putting a face to security, then building knowledge and […]
Back To The Cyber Risk Future – Responding to new threats and vulnerabilities
The cyber headline says ‘JUMP’, do you say ‘How high?’ Here we suggest turning red-teaming on it’s head to raise awareness of the defence status quo and build confidence in the response to new nasties.
