A Bloke in a Pub

Tag: Collaboration

  • Social Construction

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    Peter Fagan
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    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…

  • Costs and Benefits

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    Peter Fagan
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    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…

  • Change is Hard

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    Peter Fagan
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    There’s a strong argument that security comes about through negotiation, rather than calculation. If so, then it might be more productive to see the process of arriving at the state of security as a discussion between stakeholders. However, the current situation isn’t so much a negotiation. It’s more a lecture. Having a single very loud…