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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 […]
September 26, 2025
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 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, […]
August 23, 2025
Once upon a time, companies got by with a tight C-Suite (CEO, CFO, CTO and CSO/CISO), maybe a CIO and COO in larger enterprises or the more adventurous. Fast forward to 2025 and the executive floor resembles a royal court, where C- titles are minted faster than NFTs (non-fungible tokens). The latest entry in this […]
August 13, 2025
For a party that insists it is on the side of the people, the current UK Labour government shows an increasingly uncomfortable tendency to treat privacy and personal freedom as optional extras, privileges to be granted when convenient, rather than rights to be protected. Recent policy moves reveal a temperament that blends centralised control with […]
August 6, 2025
Not for the first time, I have finished reading a report and instead of remembering the message, I am left wondering which AI model wrote it. Fifteen minutes of polished nothing. Like being served a three-course meal made entirely of rice cakes, technically food, but utterly forgettable and lacking any nutritional value for the effort. […]
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 […]
July 26, 2025
Because who needs actuarial models when panic will do? In their paper Fear, Not Risk, Explains Asset Pricing (May 2025), Rob Arnott and Edward McQuarrie upend a core assumption of financial theory, that risk and reward are tightly linked. Their data shows otherwise, reward often correlates weakly, or not at all, with conventional measures like […]
June 27, 2025
For many organisations, investing in a new or upgraded Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platform feels like a milestone, an architectural cornerstone in the cybersecurity journey. The logic is sound, greater visibility, faster incident detection and centralised control. But while SIEM solutions have matured significantly, too many implementations still fall short of expectations and […]
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 18, 2025
In a world saturated with phishing simulations and tired security awareness slideshows, is your cyber awareness program really up to muster? Let me walk you through a Red Team scenario that takes the human attack surface cyber threat to a whole new level by orchestrating a symphony of Artificial Intelligence (AI ) agents to perform […]
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 6, 2025
We live in a digital global economy shaped by ever-evolving technology, none more complex than the global logistics systems underpinning modern supply chains. These networks connect commodities to consumers through a web of intermediaries and interdependencies, all orchestrated in real time to maximise efficiency. None is more symbolic of the connectedness of these supply chain […]
October 12, 2025
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