Your email is going into a black hole

Something is broken in the land of email Everyone relies on email, and organisations probably even more than individuals. Marketing and Communications teams in particular are hugely reliant on email to reach their audience. But …

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Humans are the weakest link

This is the trope which just won’t die. Despite some great work from people like EmmaW and the Socio-Technical Group at the NCSC, the ISACA and Angela Sasse’s team at UCL, the list of vendors …

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A park with a winding path which everyone has shortcut leaving a 'desire path' (HT Robert MacFarlane)

Designing security for people

The challenge Cyber security is always a careful balancing act between usability and security, and there are consequences to allowing the seesaw to swing too far one way or the other. Developing people focused cyber …

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Cyber security is a seatbelt

One of the things which still annoys me after 20+ years in IT is when I hear an organisation wanted to do something, but the outcome was “security says no“. This behaviour causes business and …

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