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I can't really believe that I've managed to write 200 of these, and that people continue to subscribe week after week. This has been a somewhat…
Michael Brunton-Spall
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How do we learn stuff? There's a lot of different theories about how people learn. One of my teacher friends always gets quite frustrated at the common…
Michael Brunton-Spall
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Identity and Access Control forms the basis of almost all security as we know it. It doesn't matter whether we are talking about using passes to enter a…
Michael Brunton-Spall
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It's incredibly difficult to legitimately measure our effectiveness at cybersecurity. Security is one of those things, where if you spend money and…
Michael Brunton-Spall
“Just log more” is the advice that we see most often from cybersecurity defenders and cyber talking heads (which reminds me of Max Headroom). But…
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Betteridge's law should tell you the answer to this! Of course the answer here is no. We almost certainly do not understand our supply chains, and I…
Michael Brunton-Spall
Happy sunday on a gloriously sunny day. Some of you might have noticed that I didn't send a newsletter last week, and I'd love to have a good excuse…
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How you deal with vulnerabilities is critical to your organisations approach to security. In far too many organisations, there simply isn't any defined…
Michael Brunton-Spall
We sometimes talk about "securing the software supply chain" as if it will prevent bugs and issues, which isn't quite accurate. The increasing number of…
Michael Brunton-Spall
Humans are funny creatures, we're afraid of flying but drive cars on a daily basis despite one being the safest form of travel and the other being the…
Michael Brunton-Spall
Zero trust is the architecture we talk about where there is zero trust in the fact that the requests are "coming from inside the network". But in fact…
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I’ve referred before to the excellent XKCD cartoon that reminds us that huge amounts of modern commercial systems and code rely on a library maintained…
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