I recently wrote an article for Banking Technology that has been generally well received, I’ve decided to include it here on the blog for future reference. I’ve enjoyed working with Banking Technology and thoroughly recommend the editor David Bannister who has clearly been around the block enough times and has a…
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Competing Innovations in Cyber
I have had a series of productive discussions with a colleague over the last year about the differences in adopting new innovations between cyber attackers and cyber defenders. His interesting, and itself innovative, contention is that a key problem in cyber security is created by the differently shaped innovation adoption curves…
Pitfalls of Cyber Data
I jointly presented with Ernest Li at 44con Cyber Security on April 28th 2015 discussing how we use public cyber data and some of the problems we have run into. My presentation is on slideshare below: Pitfalls of Cyber Data
We need to talk about IT
It has long been a truism of security practitioners that security is not an IT problem. This is an attempt to lift the gaze of the security team from technology to the wider business. A laudable and useful goal. However, IT is a security problem.
Misinterpreted policy?
A couple of months ago I was home ill from work and frankly a little bored. While idly reading my twitter feed I reflected on a challenge I had been facing at work; a very technology-focused, agile, team that seemed to move faster than the security team could handle. I had…