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In cybersecurity and technology governance, we spend endless hours dissecting frameworks, controls and certifications. We argue over Zero Trust architectures, resilience models and assurance seals. Yet there is a much deeper, more uncomfortable layer to the story, one that no encryption algorithm or multi-factor authentication or audit can patch or detect. Our digital trust is […]
September 24, 2025
“The future arrives not with a whisper, but with an echo of mistakes we chose not to imagine.“ A storm is gathering in the world’s supply chains. Its name is Agentic AI (Artificial Intelligence). These autonomous systems, tasked with sourcing, negotiating, routing and optimising without human pause, are being heralded as the next great leap […]
September 16, 2025
In today’s democracies, facts are no longer neutral. They have become weapons. A statistic pulled from context, a story exaggerated beyond proportion or a meme sharpened into a blade can now be deployed as artillery in political trench warfare. The battlefield is not foreign soil, it is our own timelines, group chats and dinner tables, […]
September 14, 2025
Are you outraged by the endless stream of digital crimes, or have you become numb to them? The latest in a long line of global victims being the Jaguar Land Rover breach that has thrown its supply chain into turmoil, threatening small businesses and livelihoods, while at the same time KillSec ransomware has been reported […]
August 31, 2025
The trust theme in my last blog got me thinking about the pedestal Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being placed on. When Alan Turing proposed his famous Imitation Game in 1950, he asked a deceptively simple question, paraphrased as – “If a machine’s responses are indistinguishable from a human’s, should we call it intelligent?” For decades, […]
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 29, 2025
How to Lose a Generation (and Your Cyber Credibility) … In a move that truly showcases the digital finesse of a damp teabag, Parliament has blessed us with the UK Online Safety Act 2023, yet another stroke of cyber brilliance, mandatory age verification on adult websites. Because nothing screams ‘we understand the internet’ like a […]
June 26, 2025
In this missive I’m addressing the digital economy’s elephant in the room, an idea sparked in conversation with a few esteemed colleagues (you know who you are 😉). It got me thinking, most of what’s being packaged as ‘cyber risk’ today is more traditional business risk with a flashy makeover. It’s fraud, theft, sabotage, espionage, […]
June 13, 2025
The European Union’s proposed Business Wallet ID, part of the broader European Digital Identity Framework, has been marketed as a voluntary, privacy-respecting tool that empowers citizens and businesses alike. But as with many digital identity initiatives cloaked in the language of convenience and choice, coercion is not only predictable, it’s inevitable. At face value, the […]
June 12, 2025
It was a pleasure and a privilege to be invited representing NCC Group to speak at the recent European Business Registry Association (EBRA) conference in Milan. I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to engage with such a forward-thinking and collaborative audience. As a small gesture following our Cyber Security session, I’m pleased to share the starter […]
May 3, 2025
In the chaotic, caffeine-fuelled trenches of cybersecurity, there’s a quiet paradox that haunts even the most seasoned professionals. It’s the kind of irony that sneaks up on you at 2am while you’re patching something critical… again. Despite all the firewalls, zero-trust architectures and AI-powered threat hunters, we must confront an uncomfortable truth: sometimes, the real […]
April 11, 2025
Donald blinked first with his 90 day tariff reprieve for most but China get a further hit from 104% to 125%. If the world thought there was any parity of treatment then that veil has fallen for sure. The 125% uplift lights the afterburners on the U.S. <> China trade war, Beijing is no doubt […]
January 12, 2025
Some time ago I wrote about the challenges (AI Regulation – Like Platting Fog!) The West has with Artificial Intelligence (AI) development with its greater respect for privacy and more robust regulatory data governance versus China for example. AI Regulation – Like Platting Fog! | Nigel Gibbons ~ Welcomes you This should not be misinterpreted as […]
December 15, 2024
Fraud prevention is a core discipline in more than just finance and in an era where the digital economy increasingly dominates every facet of daily life, the issue of digital / Cyber fraud has understandably taken centre stage. Whilst headlines frequently spotlight identity theft, phishing scams, ‘Mule’ accounts amongst many other sophisticated cyber-attacks, which collectively […]
October 19, 2024
To all you good people of the modern surveillance state, that which you are more familiar with in its curated form as ‘the information age’! This missive is addressed to honour our unsung hero: publicly available data, the ultimate gift that keeps on giving… to cybercriminals. Imagine a world where you can impersonate someone using […]
September 26, 2025
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