Category: Hype
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L’enfer, c’est les autres
AI and cyber… yawn… Inevitably I guess, the hype around AI and security focusses on technology. Assessing networks for inherent vulnerabilities, analysing incoming traffic for threats, (and again, inevitably) searching for possible phishing emails, thereby taking the unreliable human out of the loop, and in the process, further reducing their chances of learning from experience.…
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Response to the Response to Panorama
It’s been suggested that the media are to blame for mythologising cyber security. I don’t think so. The myths and distorted narrative start with an industry that presents the practice as something to be conducted solely by magicians – “It’s a dark art – most people won’t understand it”. And it is indeed a dark…
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Tall Tales and Long Tails
Keeping the Business Fed Mark Neocleous, in his book “Critique of Security” (brilliant book, by the way), points out a couple of things relating directly to the business of cyber. Chief amongst them is the idea that once you’ve set up an industry to sell people the concept of security, the last thing you should…
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Evidence and the case for cyber doom
I was told not that long ago, that taking an evidence-based approach to cybersecurity was not possible, because there was no evidence to be had. I disagree. There’s plenty of evidence available. What’s missing is the will to look for it. Tall Tales and Long Tails