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An article that should not be ignored at any level of leadership – ‘Russia stepping up hybrid attacks, preparing for long standoff with West, Dutch intelligence warns‘. Whilst it talks to the current state of national Hybrid threats predominantly from Russia it has lessons for Organisations of any size operating in today’s digital threat landscape […]
February 27, 2026
As the market this week reacts to recent volatility in public cybersecurity stocks, many commentators are anchoring confidence in a familiar thesis: agentic AI expands the attack surface and therefore guarantees long-term growth for security vendors. It is appealing in its simplicity. It echoes every prior technology cycle, more software, more surface area, more risk, […]
February 23, 2026
Following my blog 2 weeks ago on ‘Cyber Tail risk‘, an interesting comment in response to the LinkedIn post for the blog spun off a side thread I felt worth tugging. To rebase the parallel theme I used in that earlier piece, before 2008, financial leaders were not short of warnings of what we now […]
February 21, 2026
In my experience, few organisations procure cybersecurity as a coherent service. They buy fragments of it. A detection platform here. A testing engagement there. A compliance assurance cycle to keep auditors quiet. Cyber becomes a shopping list of services and tools, each optimised in isolation but disconnected from how the organisation actually governs risk, makes […]
February 15, 2026
I have drawn parallels between finance and Cyber in pursuit of insights to risk and I lean on that once again following a discussion with a CEO of a financial services organisation on ‘tail risk’. I drew the picture that before 2008, banks believed their risk models, diversification, liquidity resilience strategies and controls were sufficient. […]
February 7, 2026
The weekend has started with some novel phenomenon being reported in the news, a social media site designed exclusively for AI agents. Yes you read that correctly, AI agents have their own social media platform, wetware permitted at their peril. Apparently we can expect platforms like Moltbook to go viral as thousands, nay millions of […]
February 1, 2026
To ban or not to ban, that is the question. Australia has lead the way with its ban on social media for under 16 year olds and opened minds to the detrimental impact of our poorly regulated digital society. Where the digital corporatocracy governs for commercial gain, through engineered distraction without boundaries, I believe they […]
February 28, 2026
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