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Light-headed and sleep-deprived, sitting in Hong Kong (China) en-route to Osaka with three hours to kill, I found myself people-watching rather than sleeping. Around me was a familiar modern tableau, executives clutching the latest smartphones, a few stubborn laptops still in evidence, all of us quietly tethered to our digital lives. A question surfaced that […]
January 19, 2026
After years sitting with business leaders discussing cyber risk and supporting boards through the rollercoaster of incident responses, you start to notice patterns. Not technical ones human ones, that our minds quietly work against us, making cyber risk is as much about engineering around that as it is the technology and controls. Many of you […]
January 16, 2026
I am starting to believe that ‘Sovereignty’ is becoming one of the most misused words in modern technology discourse. As digital infrastructure becomes geopolitical, vendors increasingly promise Sovereignty as a Service. The phrase is reassuring and often wrong. Let me start by providing some clarity, we need a clean and simple taxonomy. In the absence […]
January 10, 2026
Following the two age related posts I have recently done, notably ‘The Most Expensive Bias in Business …‘ and ‘Practical Insights into Activating Cognitive Superpowers‘, a repeated question that has come up is in pursuit of examples that bring to life the generic references I have made. To which end and none better a subject […]
January 3, 2026
In yesterdays Financial Times interview, AI pioneer Yann LeCun made waves by declaring that current large language models (LLMs) are a ‘dead end’ for achieving true machine intelligence, what he terms Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) rather than mere generative pattern completion. While LLMs like ChatGPT and META’s Llama have transformed search, writing and creative tooling, […]
January 2, 2026
As 2026 opens, many organisations will review their progress on culture, risk and resilience. Cyber security often appears in these discussions as a defined topic, important, well-documented and supported by policy. Yet experience continues to show, backed up by a long list of failures in 2025 by flagship organisations who should know better, that cyber […]
January 1, 2026
HAPPY NEW YEAR … The papers are full of the usual headline grabbing alarmism in the annual post mortem roll-up of opinions on the economy amongst other themes. For me areas of the social balance sheet that are being ignored include where Britons may be getting poorer include Privacy, Democracy and Justice. For the purposes […]
January 28, 2026
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