I don’t know about you but during my career I’ve railed against security controls more than once. An odd thing for a cybersecurity professional to say but I’d be very surprised if any honest person, especially one who’s worked in cybersecurity, would say any different. Some control was imposed that curtails your ‘freedoms’ and you…
Use Your Vendors
When you’re looking to tackle a problem that is going to be solved outside of your organisation, the best advice I can give you is to make full use of your vendors. And by vendors, I mean anyone providing services or products, in particular when looking at cybersecurity. Your vendors are experts in their particular…
Cybersecurity Business Continuity Planning
Cybersecurity gets a bit of a bad rap. From being called “The Work Prevention Team” to simply being an afterthought, it’s seen as a necessary evil by many. In my career I’ve sat around a few boardroom tables and heard the phrase, “Didn’t we do cybersecurity?” spoken with some destain, float across them. In most…
Shameless plug
While this is a shameless plug, I am somewhat shamed that it’s the first actual post (after the obligatory “What this blog is about” post) but it is at least on-topic for the blog. Earlier this year, I and two colleagues completed “Cloud Attack Vectors” published by Apress. This is the 4th in the ‘Attack…
…and so it is!
For many years I’ve written blog posts and articles under the banner of my employer. I’ve also contributed to press pieces and spoken at conferences across the globe but, like so many, neglected my own content production as a result. I’ve had a lot of roles over the years in many areas of IT through…