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A collection of 12 issues

Just call me Gandalf

I’ve given this advice a few times on career progression in Tech: there comes a time when you face a fork in the proverbial road. You either specialise or go down the leadership route. With the leadership route there’s a really good chance you’ll lose ‘hands-on’ technical

Some good questions

It’s Cyber Security Awareness Month (The WORST acronym…ever, Marketers are eye-rolling and weeping. If they aren’t, somebody needs to have a quiet word) Strangely I’m interested in seeing where the marketing does go on this. ‘It’s [I’m not typing it again] so be aware

AI gets carried away

If you’ve ever had to introduce processes into an SME or high growth business, you’ll know it’s never universally embraced with joy. Change control, asset management, risk registers etc. “Why? We’re doing fine” When it all goes wrong - that’s a great learning moment. Not

TFL with a lot of password resets

It took a while for this to hit a news site. I don’t like posting things if I can’t link to something. TfL requires in-person password resets for 30,000 employees after hack Transport for London (TfL) says that all staff (roughly 30,000 employees) must attend in-person

Open source and Cyber Essentials Plus

“What if you wanted to run open source software, but gain or maintain Cyber Essentials Plus?” That was an interesting question. Especially in the context of having potential alternatives to Big Player software. My initial thought was surely it’d be bloody painful and just not worth it? NCSC seem

Why do AI projects fail then?

Good article by Jürgen Geuter: Why “AI” projects fail“By some estimates, more than 80 percent of AI projects fail—twice the rate of failure for information technology projects that do not involve AI.” – The Root Causes of Failure for Artificial Intelligence Projects and How They Can Succeed A study

Always about costs

Tech is cool, but It’s always about costs. Often missing from a lot of conversations. Salesforce eyes pricing per AI conversationBenioff sees ‘very high margin opportunity’ in bid to ‘monetize’ productivity gainsThe RegisterLindsay Clark Investors concerned efficiencies will result in fewer seat sales. Benioff (CEO) likes PPC (‘Pay Per

Crowdstrike RCA is out

In incident response, security and GRC I’ve often asked the question “How do we train people without the pain?”. There’s no better teacher than experience. But sometimes that comes with trials and tribulations. The longest time I spent managing an incident was 27hrs straight. The dark hours were

RTO mandates aren't worth it

RTO mandates aren’t worth it. It must be true as it’s Gartner. You can’t point at a quadrant and then just dismiss other things. I’ve been a multi-country and multi-site manager for a long time. No chance you’re all going to be in the same

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