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If the rats are after your cheese, keep the cheese safe
Jason Ha explores how can we prevent hackers from taking a bite out of our assets.
Is Your Security Framework Like a Smooth Saloon Car or a 4X4?
If we took the same approach to building a car as we did to our organisational controls and capabilities what would be the result? Jason Ha takes a look under the bonnet.
Waiting for Godot and a Data Breach
Indy Dhami joins Estragon and Vladimir and looks at what Waiting for Godot can teach us about the attitudes companies should adopt towards security threats
Lessons From the Pit Lane
Anne Wood takes inspiration from Formula 1, and discusses how understanding our environments is crucial to having the winning infosec strategy.
Digital Vampires
Dixie Newman lifts the coffin lid on the vampire, and how they can hunt and feed upon us in the digital world too.
The importance of the captain’s log…
How can we ensure our IT management is smooth sailing? Emmanuel Nicaise sails the infosec sea and considers how to steer clear of stormy weather.
Jurassic Park – Based on a True Story…
Yes, really!I was recently looking for a change of direction in my information security career and was invited to an interview at a local company. I was instructed to prepare a 10 minute presentation on ...
God Save Me From My Friends. I Can Protect Myself From My Enemies
This quote is attributed to many. In fact, most people believe it was first said by King David himself. Some attribute to the French philosopher Voltaire, and others to the French marshal Claude Louis Hector ...
Lessons from the Big Four – Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroes
I don’t know if the phrase “the bigger they come, the harder they fall” was around when Shakespeare was alive but it applies to his tragic heroes across the board. If we look at his ...
The Elephant and the Six Blind Men: What Does Information Security Mean to You?
The poem “The Blind Men and the Elephant” was written by John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887). The essence of the poem is that their reactions were: The first felt the side of the elephant and said: It’s ...
Don’t Walk on the Grass!
In a vain bid to keep fit, I go running. Sometimes. When the mood takes me. It’s one of those things that I know I should do - I understand the importance of exercise, but ...
Romeo & Juliet
In this famous play by Shakespeare Juliet, in an attempt to avoid an arranged marriage politically motivated to Paris, visits Friar Laurence for help. The Friar suggests to her a drug that will put her ...
Not At The Flick of a Switch
Reversing climate change is a difficult longterm challenge. Angus McIlwraith explores how changing cultural attitudes towards security can be equally complex.
How the Stuff in Your Attic Might be Hiding a Van Gogh
What do you keep in your attic? Martin Sugden looks at these often overlooked storage spaces and how we apply the real-world storage mentality to data.
Being Cute is not Enough
Angus McIlwraith looks at the failings of the Panda as a species and makes the case for adaption rather than specialism
Laboratory Monkeys – “This Is How Things Are Done Here”
Rafael Lachi looks at what behavioural tests with monkeys can teach us about the way we implement standards and best practice within our organisations
Rollen som analytiker
This is the Danish version of ‘The Role of the Analyst: Infosec Librarian and Curator’, first published on the 27th October. Looking at the role of Librarians and Museum Curators, Claus Houmann demystifies exactly what a Security Analyst is.
Call in Houdini
How was the world’s most famous escapologist like a modern day hacker? Dave Brooks looks at what we can learn from the world of escape and illusion.
