France’s Macron announces creation of a new space force command
“Gentlemen, start your [meme] engines.” I foresee many cartoons of space troopers (some in red shirts – and we all know what that means) clashing in orbit with one side […]
Opinion
India’s Response to China’s Cyber Attacks
If you’re attacked with a stick and all you have to respond with is a gun, what would you do? Reading this article makes me think that physical, ‘kinetic’ war […]
Microsoft’s new OneDrive Personal Vault ups your cloud storage security
I’m cautiously welcoming this. Generally, it’s a good idea to keep important stuff in a secure location. For example, keep your important physical documents and valuables in a small fire […]
The Perils of Automatic Updates
I tend to bang on about the balance of risk between updating everything automatically, and running the more traditional ‘Dev > Test > Stage > Production’ method of introducing change. […]
The encryption wars are back, but this time it’s different
ZDNET’s take on moves by western governments to insert themselves into your private conversations. Just to be clear, this is a BAD idea…: […] Until recently there was, for most […]
Google’s Sundar Pichai says privacy can’t be a ‘luxury good’
Compare and contrast these utterings with Mark Zuckerberg‘s statements on privacy. No matter how well-meaning the CEO is, the business model of both companies currently relies on hoovering data. I’d […]
The NIST Privacy Framework Is More Needed Than Ever
In the world of information security if you compare ISO270001 with NIST CSF, ISO is a framework of sets of principles and CSF is much more a set of rules […]
Britain strikes an artful compromise on Huawei and 5G
An opinion post from The Economist. One thing not often mentioned is that the 3G and 4G core are currently in a large part from Huawei so we should already […]
The end of ‘Detect and Protect’ cybersecurity measures
Not exactly “the end of” more “can’t be totally reliant on”. My view is that you need a range of measures, starting with an understanding of the threats your business […]
NATO at 70: Where next?
Note the consistent 4th domain theme of cybersecurity…: As member nations gather to celebrate NATO’s 70th anniversary this week, POLITICO asked experts to forecast what the military alliance will look […]