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Chaos – Where Great Dreams Begin
Will Pelgrin writes about the creativity that comes from a disorderly, organic approach to business and security.
Brexit Means Information Security
Dave Brooks compares the sense of panic that has spread in the UK as a result of the EU Referendum with the dread that follows an InfoSec breach.
Minecraft
Ross Moore writes about the challenges and achievements in the world of Minecraft, and how they relate to the world of InfoSec.
JungleBook – Social Networking Before Zuckerberg
Dave Brooks uses The Jungle Book as the basis for a literary analogy. Are the dangers of the untamed jungle really behind us?
Lessons Learned From Trying To Keep Rabbits Inside Their Cage
Claus Houmann talks about pentesting and the ingenuity rabbits suddenly develop when faced with fences, like hackers faced with secure information.
The Perils of Self-Publishing
Slava Gomzin writes about DIY quick solutions versus the security of working with a team, as well as the importance of using assigned roles within a team.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
What the Elizabethans Teach us About Cyber-Security
The year is 1586. In the middle of England's Golden Age, Elizabeth I rules alone – confident, and yet in fear. The Tudor dynasty had been secured on the foundations of illegitimacy, intrigue and disloyalty. With ...
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 ...
Cleavage and Clouds
One thing up front: This is not, in case you were hoping, an attempt at adult InfoSec fiction. Rather, it should resonate with anyone using, or planning to use cloud solutions and anyone who’s seen or ...
Don’t Forget to Lock the Door
Are you in danger of locking the stable door after the digital horse has bolted? Leandro Bennaton looks at how we need to take the mindset of physical precautions into the digital realm.
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
People Hacking & Playtime
Could placing more trust in our employees create more secure businesses? Sarah Clarke looks at the balance of freedom and restrictions we place on our children and compares this to our employees.
God Save Me From My Friends. I Can Protect Myself From My Enemies
It’s often our friends and family that can hurt us the most. Yotam Gutman takes a look at how this often the case within our organisations.
The Placebo Effect in Information Security
Zoran Lalic encourages us to ask whether the security tools we’ve implemented are effectively inoculating against hackers, or whether they are just placebos to make us feel better.
Hotel Stories
Sarah Clarke uses an embarrassing hotel experience to explore incident management and how it could have helped the situation
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