Tag: awareness

Locard’s Exchange – The Principle every Security Operations Analyst needs to know!

An organisation can have all the security tools in the world. SIEM, UEBA, SOAR, you name it. Ultimately those tools will end up as shelfware if there isn’t a human being looking at the output. Sure, “AI” (or Machine Learning for non-Marketeers) can do a lot of the heavy lifting if properly configured. BUT at some point,…
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Operation CYGNUS – Was the UK’s Coronavirus response a failure based in assumption…?

So much has been discussed about the Tier One Command Post Pandemic planning exercise of 2016. For those who haven’t been part of the discussion, the Public Health England, on behalf of the Department of Health delivered a pandemic planning exercise between 18 to 20 October 2016. The exercise was primarily aimed at assessing high-level…
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Security Awareness Training Dies. My 2020 Prediction

My prediction is that 2020 will be the year security awareness training dies…and not before time…

GDPR – 7 Things encryption won’t solve

There are lots of reasons to use encryption and other cryptographic techniques when it comes to mitigating the risks associated with protecting the rights and freedoms of Data Subjects under GDPR. There are however a lot of things that encryption won’t solve too. In this brief article, we will look at 7 of those things encryption is just never going to solve.