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What is “Cyber Assurance”?
This is something I’m often asked about. The literal answer is simple, but not terribly helpful: it’s the process of providing assurance that an organisation’s digital assets are secure from threats. So what is “Assurance”? I tend to describe it thus: “Assurance is the difference between thinking you know something, and actually knowing it –
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Novel Training Techniques: Public Key Exchanges
I’ve run a few training courses with novel techniques for getting memorable lessons across. Here’s another. Nancy Pierpan: You trust me. Why on earth would you trust me? Johnny Worricker: Because that’s the job. Deciding whom to trust. That’s what the job is. — Page 8 Knowing whom to trust is difficult. If it wasn’t,
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“Mine is the last voice that you will ever hear. Don’t be alarmed.”
Ongoing events in supply-chain subversion involving high explosives, coupled with other world events, have awakened many Cold War memories for me. And here’s another one that has bubbled up to the surface: the quotation that is the title of this article. It appeared on some of the (many) mixes & remixes of Frankie Goes To
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Supply-Chain Subversion
How well do you know your supply-chains? It was only a couple of days ago that I was commenting online about supply chain assurance. And now, today, we have a real and dramatic demonstration of what a supply-chain attack can achieve. Maybe it will encourage some better consideration of supply-chain risks throughout industry. All sorts
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Novel Training Techniques: The “Remember” Command
“Experience varies directly with equipment ruined” was a useful mantra for getting through undergraduate physics labs. And it can be applied in other areas too. Back in the 1990s I ran a few classes to teach people about Linux. They needed to rapidly understand that with power came immense destructive capability, so with each student
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Scary Times; Cold War lessons from History
Those of you lucky enough to currently be younger than mid-30s may have missed out on some fairly scary times in the 1960s/1970s/1980s. It might be a good time for the younger amongst us to get at least a glimpse into what those times were like. And also a good time for those of us
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