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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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How networks affect us all is both intuitive and supremely unintuitive at the same time. GPG, rather famously suggested that people have key signing…
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This week has had a lot of cyber security pundits confused that their predictions of the coming cyber apocalypse haven't come true. They predicted…
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I'm going to start this week by explaining why I'm not talking about the situation unfolding in Ukraine. Everybody on the internet has shifted from an…
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It's nice to imagine a world with proper classifications and access control systems. You can read declassified US reports and see examples where every…
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Zero-trust is the new saviour of all of our security woes, but I suspect that the effort and impact of it is wildly underestimated by most people. It's…
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