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161 - How to make a difference

It's really easy to criticise, in fact I do it on a weekly basis, but it's much harder to create.

160 - Competent adversaries and us

I think I've said this before, but we're really not good at visualising or understanding risk.

159 - The rise of commercial spyware

(Joel) Hi folks, Joel here.

158 - It always depends on the context

We can easily be the victim of binary thinking in cybersecurity and digital.

157 - A radical focus on users

Security has for many years been the purview of a rather niche set of people.

156 - Celebrating diversity

This week has seen my twitter feed filled with people in bikini, tank tops, naked in some cases, and showing off their bodies.

155 - Making decisions with data

It's easy to say that if you had more data then you'd be able to make better decisions.

154 - 2021 is the year of ransomware

I've been saving a few of these articles for weeks. I've talked before about the fact that I don't generally do "news" here. I like to have time to read a number of perspectives and let the initial excitement die down so that I can get a good grip of the facts.

153 - Learning from failure part 2

Last weeks post turned out to be somewhat prescient as this week we had a significant outage that affected the UK Government, BBC, Guardian, Financial Times, Independant, New York Times, The Verge, Amazon, Boots, Paypal, Deliveroo and many others.

152 - Learning from the best

I learn best from my mistakes.

151 - Bringing light to shadow IT

Generally speaking, users don't break security protocols on purpose.

150 - Shifting security left

Shift security left is one of those mantras that sounds great, but in reality, struggles to deliver on the promise.