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Historically organisations had years to adapt governance and risk management to technological change, AI is compressing those cycles into months. For me the blind spot for C-Levels I speak to is understanding the most important impact of AI, is not intelligence, it is speed. The challenge for leadership teams is that governance, procurement, compliance and […]
June 20, 2026
Are you getting tired of the language used to describe artificial intelligence (AI) that is subliminally softening the reality of what these systems are actually doing? I certainly am … We are told that models are not perfect, as though they are accurate mirrors of reality with a few defects. In truth, an AI model […]
June 10, 2026
Following on from my last piece, which explored the difference between transformation and optimisation, I have found myself reflecting on another word that appears repeatedly in discussions about change, notably ‘strategy‘. It is a word used with confidence and frequency, often as the organising discipline for transformation. Yet in an environment shaped by exponential AI […]
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 […]
June 6, 2026
We are starting to see in research coming out indicators of the truth of where the value proposition in AI is likely to sit. For much of the AI revolution, success appeared to be a race towards ever larger and more expensive models. However, recent research demonstrates that the greatest economic value may not lie […]
June 2, 2026
Cybersecurity was built around a fundamental assumption, humans remained at the centre of decision making. Humans interpreted alerts, approved actions and constrained the speed at which systems operated. That assumption is collapsing. We are entering an unmanned era where AI collides with multiple exponential forces simultaneously, hyperscale compute, autonomous systems, robotics, satellite networks, edge sensors, […]
May 26, 2026
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 […]
June 26, 2026
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