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137 - Taking your daily exercise
We don't exercise enough.
136 - It’s about ethics in cybersecurity
How should we respond to unethical actions in cybersecurity, and where is the line anyway?
135 - How to tell truth from fiction
Supermicro. Remember them? That story from Bloomberg that there was chinese malware in SuperMicro motherboards that could entirely compromise computers from below the operating system for which there was a lot of very strong denials from almost everyone involved.
134 - Whose device is it anyway?
End User Devices are one of the roots of trust in any modern system. We might worry about attackers getting into our servers or networks, but it doesn’t matter how much encrypted fairy dust we apply to the data, once it reaches the end user device, it has to be decrypted to be shown to the user.
133 - The lies our brains tell us
It remains to be seen what will happen to QAnon now that Biden is president and many of the “facts” and predictions remain totally unfounded.
132 - New year, new resolutions, and new lessons to learn
It's hard to believe that we're already at the end of the second week of 2021. For some us, our resolutions will already be broken, especially in the face of a continuing global pandemic and the sheer sense of apathy that everyone I speak to has.
131 - Protecting the cloud
I hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year!
130 - Solarwinds Special
I was going to have a nice relaxing holiday and take a few weeks off from writing a newsletter and news roundup!
129 - Even cyber companies get breached
Remember that term "assumed breached", well if FireEye can get breached, then you should assume that pretty much anyone can.
128 - What makes a good strategy?
I think that a lot of us spend a lot of our career believing that somewhere at the top of the organisations we work for, despite all the evidence, someone knows what they are doing.
127 - Secure your platforms
Security isn't just about one thing. Security people cover physical threats, cyber threats as well as information risks and often data protection concerns as well.
126 - More secure in the public cloud
You know, I never really thought the MOD would be the organisation to be the first HMG organisation to say it, but yes, they have. You can be more secure in the public cloud than you might be in your on-premise data center.