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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 ...
Overdue Maintenance
Painting over the cracks is one way to cover up a failing paint job. As Daan Stakenburg found out to his cost, however, that rarely solves the underlying problem.
The Elephant and the Six Blind Men: What Does Information Security Mean to You?
Eduardo Gelbstein examines John Godfrey Saxe’s poem “The Blind Men and the Elephant” and looks at how the lack of a holistic view of information security leads to confusion and weak governance.
What the Elizabethans Teach us About Cyber-Security
Father and Daughter team Jonathan and Juliet Armstrong look at the Tudor use of espionage and what this can tell us about protecting our modern day networks
Don’t Pin Me Down
Bennett Arron explores how we keep our accounts and information secure, and the multiple uses of the PINs
Many Bands Make Light Work
The original Band Aid was successful because Bob Geldof and Midge Ure recruited the best musicians of the time together for the greater good. Dan Raywood looks at whether this could provide a similar blueprint to help further the InfoSec cause.
Was Brian Clough the Greatest Security Manager of all Time?
Love him or loathe him, it was difficult to not have an opinion about Brian Clough. Brendan Byrne looks at his legacy and asks if he wasn’t just a great football manager but also the greatest security manager of all time.
