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Following an article on Cyber Insurance in the Financial Times today ‘Growing threats prompt rethink over cyber insurance’ I felt a moment of déjà vu, as I reflected on a piece I wrote just over 10 years ago to the day Cyber Insurance – Let the dance begin. In which I predicted the disruption to […]
June 7, 2026
And so as promised, here is my piece on AI and transformation … Back in 2018, I wrote an article titled ‘Are You Digitally Transforming or Just Optimising?‘ The central argument was simple, many organisations claim transformation when they are really just making incremental improvements to existing ways of working. Eight years later, as organisations […]
May 20, 2026
I still live in hope, that 2026 will mark the point at which cyber security is no longer treated as a technical or compliance function, just a security issue but accepted in its true global economy role as a core pillar of trust, resilience and macro-economic stability a systemic risk. Helped in no small part […]
April 17, 2026
It feels a bit like we have crossed a cyber event horizon with the release of Anthropic’s latest Mythos AI, an LLM optimised for vulnerability detection. Much of the noise centres on whether it enables better hacking at machine speed, which I believe is a bit of a distraction from the practical impact. The more […]
March 21, 2026
Modern cities are no longer just places people live, they are data-rich environments continuously broadcasting intelligence. In an era of escalating geopolitical tension, including the current Iran-linked cyber activity observed across Western networks, that reality is becoming strategically dangerous. Since early February, Iranian state-linked cyber actors, most notably the group known as Seedworm (also tracked […]
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 […]
January 28, 2026
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 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 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 […]
December 9, 2025
An interesting question concerning the trustworthiness of technology, or perhaps more accurately those who control it, was raised out of my last missive, ‘Is Trust The Strategic Asset Democracy is Neglecting?’ that got me thinking. To start with let me lay that thinking out so you get the context, I am postulating that the defining […]
November 23, 2025
Once upon a time, building trust at work was simple. You turned up, made eye contact, remembered someone’s birthday, nodded sympathetically at the printer and occasionally bought doughnuts. Trust grew through shared oxygen and shared irritation. You did not need an operating model, you just needed a desk and a kettle. Then remote work arrived […]
November 11, 2025
This week it was the turn of Cloudflare to have an outage enforcing a self-imposed denial of service on its customers that included OpenAI and Twitter. This follows AWS and Microsoft in recent weeks, events raising an increasingly urgent question – Do we now need a framework for Globally Systemically Important Technology Corporations, a G-SiTec […]
October 18, 2025
I wrote about Cyber Security as the new business operating model back in 2017 – Cyber Security – The new Operating Model and it has continued to reinforce itself ever since, growning into an economy grade question. In today’s digital-first economy, cybersecurity has moved from the boardroom now to the heart of policy makers economic […]
October 12, 2025
The weekends news has been full of the doom-mongers gurning at the AI boom or should we call it a bubble? Which got me thinkng, we have been here before have we not? When inflated expectations, fuelled by investor FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), surge to irrational heights before the inevitable correction. Then comes the […]
July 30, 2025
Following my last missive, I had some interesting feedback on a term I used in reference to compliance, that of ‘Theatre’. So to elucidate a bit on that theme … In boardrooms and audit committees across the world, the term cyber compliance gets thrown around like a magic talisman, invoked to satisfy regulators, reassure investors […]
July 20, 2026
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