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.
Weather Or Not?
Dave Brooks explains that, just like weather warnings can be ignored, security warnings can have unintended consequences unless we can present them in a meaningful way.
Public Wi-Fi Networks Are Like Mushrooms
This is the English translation of a French analogy originally posted on the 30th of July 2015. Fabrice de Paepe says looking for wild mushrooms, much the same as public Wi-Fi networks, can be very useful but may also harbour dangers for the unwary.
The Wisdom of Networks – and the Lessons of Wikipedia
Philip Reitinger explores if crowdsourcing could be the answer to defending our networks.
Horrible Security
Brendan Byrne recounts some horrible historical security blunders, and describes how simple vulnerabilities need simple security solutions.
Безбедности Информација је Потребна Cтратегија од Александра Великог
This is the Serbian Cyrillic translation of an analogy originally posted on the 29th of February 2016. Zoran Lalic discusses adapting info defense to your present threats, using the Battle of Gaugamela as an example.
