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Dial up the drama

The drama always gets turned up to eleven* for things like this. I suppose ‘MoD hacked!’ is a better headline than service provider breached. MoD data breach: State involvement cannot be ruled out in armed forces hack, says Grant ShappsThe details of serving Army, RAF and Navy personnel are involved,

Underwater Bitbarns

Fun fact: my Masters degree is in Marine Science. I once hand fed a shark, that was quite cool. Undersea datacenter biz offers 90-day trialTesting platform for those ‘unfamiliar with the subsea environment’The RegisterDan Robinson I’m fascinated by these underwater data centres. It’s been talked about for

Marriot held to account?

Remember the Marriot breach back in 2018? Details of 500 million guests were exposed over a period of four years. I remember it because I’d been a Starwood guest during the time so after a lot of swearing I did some checks to see what card details I would

Crazy email

You see a lot of memes about the EV Fella on LinkedIn. Visionary, disruptor etc (some might say…) I read the below and thought of working transformation projects or PE carve outs. Imagine getting an email like that? Cue emergency meetings and a lot of ‘Wth?’ thinking. Read the wild

Microsoft push on security

This is quite good from Microsoft - what was needed after the CISA report. Especially the ‘six prioritized security pillars’. Nadella put out a pretty good memo as well. Read Satya Nadella’s Microsoft memo on putting security firstNadella doesn’t want Microsoft employees making security tradeoffs.The Verge The

AI and Bias

A good few years ago I put a job description I’d wrote through a tool to analyse the gender bias in the words and narrative. One of the guys in HR suggested it as he’d been using it. I can never remember the name of the tool, but

ERP? Done incorrectly? £££

£2.6m to £40m cost for West Sussex County Council. Same sort of issue as Birmingham. How many more are out there? Oracle Fusion rollout costs 15 times council’s estimatesNo it’s not Birmingham this time. West Sussex County Council ERP replacement price to hit £40MThe RegisterLindsay Clark I’

Adequacy in 2025

One for the risk register for 2025 if you do business across the UK/EU. Back in 2021 the EU adopted two data adequacy decisions which allowed the flow of personal data between the UK and EU. Europe warns of threat to adequacy agreementLIBE committee raises concerns about Data Protection

Big not always best

The reference to the lack of a ‘healthy marketplace’ is key. I will admit in the past, when under pressure, I have calmed Exec and Audits with “Don’t worry it’s on Big Provider™️ At Microsoft, years of security debt come crashing downCritics say negligence, misguided investments and hubris