Remote working on a boat How do you work from a boat with no conventional broadband connection, which might not even be in the same place from one day to the next? How do you work in a 39m^2 (420ft^2) space with no spare room,…

The Fairphone 5 5G Being a geek with a gadget problem I've been using handheld tech longer than the average user. My first handheld computer was an early 90's Psion Series 3, followed by a Compaq iPAQ, then my first real smartphone, an...

WTF 2024?! I don't think I'm alone in thinking 2024 wasn't the best year. For me it's been pretty hectic. In the 14 months since I last blogged I've changed jobs, bought a puppy, moved house and our daughter started secondary school. In...

If you had to explain it to someone outside cybersecurity, they wouldn’t believe you, but organisations including one of the world’s biggest banks and largest defence contractors have been compromised because they were too slow to apply...

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 something...

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 and commentators trotting out this rubbish is...

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 security is about the...

I’ve not blogged for over a year, because in that year we moved into our much anticipated new home and four months later I started a new job, so I’ve been a bit busy. The new home hasn’t gone as expected (that’s a whole other…

As an industry we’re not particularly good at talking to people about cyber security in a way which is helpful for them, rather than in a way that either triggers a visceral reaction, a sale or just mystifies people so they stop reading....

Often driven more by regulation and legislation than by any real desire to change behaviour, information security policies are seen by author and reader alike as a tick box exercise. Organisations either forget or don’t care that a...