A Bloke in a Pub

Tag: Research

  • 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…

  • That’s why they call it research…

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    Peter Fagan
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    Research, at least as far as the cyber industry is concerned, seems to take a limited number of forms. For the most part, it seems to be about looking for technical vulnerabilities. Sometimes it appears as a sentence starting “Research proves that…”, usually in a message from a cyber company with kit to sell. Occasionally…