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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 ...
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 ...
How the Deming Cycle can Reinforce Safety
– for Information Systems and Divers The Deming cycle (Plan - Do - Check - Act) forms the foundation of continual improvement principles in a wide range of management systems such as ISO9001, ISO20000, ISO22301, ISO27000,… The ...
The Anxious Ant and the Lazy Grasshopper
An English translation of Jean Loup-Richet’s ‘La Fourmi Soucieuse et la Cigale Paresseuse’ analogy, Jean looks at Aesop’s Fable, “The Grasshopper and the Ant” and weighs up whether an individual or group response to Risk Management issues is the most effective approach.
The Case For Security Driving Prosperity
Bruce Hallas explores how confidentiality affected the way Switzerland operates it’s banking system and driven economic growth.
Seeing Isn’t Believing…
Adrian Davis takes a look at ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ and explores what security professionals can learn from the fictional heist
A Familiar Story With An Icy Edge
The story of the ‘unsinkable’ ship and the iceberg is over 101 years old, but what Information Security lessons can the sinking of the Titanic teach us? Andrew Bycroft takes an indepth look.
Maturing Information Security and the Musical World
Learning to play an instrument takes a lot of hard work and time. David Scovetta looks at what we can learn from this process when developing our own security practices.
Don’t Walk on the Grass!
Mike Carter looks at exercise habits and park planning to open up ideas about security behaviours and creating security policy.
