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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Forecasting Like a Turkey
Euardo Gelbstein looks how a popular story, thinking about the future like a turkey, draws some interesting parallels with the way we try to predict risk.
Security and Superheroes
Not all Superheroes rely on super powers. Raj Patel looks at what we can learn from Batman’s approach to being a hero.
Dutch Deltaworks
Daan Stakenburg looks at the lessons the dutch learnt to protect the country from flooding and asks if the same lessons should be applied to Information Security.
Christmas Dinner – It’s All In The Gravy
What will you be thinking about over Christmas Dinner? James Gosnold will be thinking about how your meal could represent a modern computing enterprise with the gravy representing Cyber Security, and he invites you to do the same.
CISO Impossible
Secret agents in the TV series Mission:Impossible worked wonders to defend their nation from attack. Yosam Gutman explores how the life of CISO can feel much the same sometimes…
InfoSec and the Great British Bake-Off
Who wouldn’t want to find a winning recipe for information security? Dave Brooks thinks a baking contest has more to do with InfoSec than just a Technical Challenge.
