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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer simply another technology cycle. It is becoming an exponential accelerant acting upon every other domain it touches. Unlike previous waves of transformation that largely evolved in isolation, AI is creating connective tissue between disciplines, systems and industries that were never originally designed to converge. The result is not linear […]
May 4, 2026
The conversation around AI agents is accelerating but so is a fundamental misconception. Following a recent IDC dinner, one theme stood out in an AI Agent discussion, a conflation of AI agents with IoT. They are not the same thing. IoT senses and acts, AI agents decide. That distinction matters. AI agents are not devices, […]
April 29, 2026
Following a series of stimulating discussions with IDC last week, I have been reflecting on the intersecting themes of sovereignty, cloud platforms and AI (Agentics, projection of 1.2B serving over 217B daily actions by 2029) issues now firmly at the top of Europe’s strategic agenda. The conversation, however, is often framed in terms of ownership, […]
April 27, 2026
The traditional Security Operations Centre (SOC) has been built around alert-driven firefighting ingesting signals, triaging noise, and responding to incidents after conditions have already degraded. This model assumes that compromise is a detectable event. In practice, modern environments are in constant flux, where risk accumulates gradually through configuration drift, identity sprawl and unvalidated change. From […]
April 22, 2026
Further to my earlier post following the arrival of Mythos class AI capable of surfacing vulnerabilities and weaponising them by chaining them at machine speed. I would like to explore further and more explicitly how this has reset the baseline for organisational accountability and risk, whether this is acknowledged yet by some is only a […]
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 […]
April 15, 2026
For most of the 20th century, intelligence appeared to be rising. The so called Flynn effect saw IQ scores climb steadily across the Western world, driven not by genetics but by environment, education, nutrition and critically, the spread of literacy and abstract thinking through books. That trend has now reversed. A large Norwegian study of […]
April 11, 2026
For most organisations and even those in the Cyber security industry itself, they still imagine their digital adversary as a system intruder. Firewalls are hardened, endpoints instrumented, identities wrapped in layers of conditional access and on and on … Yet the majority of losses are not coming from breached systems, they are flowing through human […]
April 8, 2026
Following on from my last missive (From Zero-Day to Zero-Hour, How Cyber Defence Lost Time) and responding to some of the comments that it has stimulated, particularly on how AI is rapidly extending our capacity to act. I agree, it accelerates decisions, automates complexity and compresses what once took teams of experts into the output […]
March 14, 2026
Following on the theme from my last missive, I believe the real prize in AI infrastructure is not datacentres, it is the orchestration layer. An orchestration layer built on a single foundational principle I have written about extensively – trust. Which is why Europe has a genuine opportunity to build the trust fabric for Artificial […]
March 8, 2026
As an avid fitness enthusiast, the modern ability to access personal metabolic and activity data has fascinated me ever since I first began exploring it more than 25 years ago. Anyone else remember the bulky Garmin Forerunner 101? How things have changed since then. With nearly half a lifetime of training data, now enriched by […]
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 […]
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 […]
May 26, 2026
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