Category: Social
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Optimism
The application of AI to cyber security seems obsessed with the idea that it’s all about technology. And yet what we seem to be seeing is that attackers, being more nimble and more forward-looking than defenders, are using AI to improve their success rate when it comes to persuading people to make particular decisions on…
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Tales From the Front Line
Mortality and all that… It was my birthday recently – a major one! Thank you. That’s kind. Being a dutiful Dad, as my tachograph creeps inexorably towards the ‘mandatory end of journey’ marker, I’ve been spending a lot of time and pulling out a few more grey hairs, trying to make sure that my children…
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Social Construction
If you’ve worked in Government security, you’ll be aware of the process of reviewing independent third party vulnerability assessments. Line item by line item, the report is reviewed and discussed, usually by the approval authority, the project and the test team. The test team may arrive with the objective of making sure that their commercial…
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Costs and Benefits
Getting to Zero Every so often, I see a post asking “How can we make [ransomware] [phishing] [cybercrime generally] (delete as appropriate) a thing of the past?” I very much doubt that you can. There are at least two reasons: So, Point One: there will always be cybercrime. There, I said it. Management Before asking…