In both design and function, the A-10 is the ugliest aerial beauty to behold. Practical considerations manifest in the planning, it offers examples we can apply to our organisations' operational resilience/ continuity of business/ cyber security design and implementation. When failure is a given rather than an option, look no further.
Author: Steven Landes
On Dangers of Standing Alone
We call on one another's accountability, often recognising the courage required to stand up for right despite challenges. Assuming a stakeholder or leader faces these alone miscasts notions of organisational dynamics and isolation. In some regards we are alone - understand it defies the definition of leadership.
Cyber War and Peace for Boards
Boards need to know how to prepare organisations for dealing with cyber crime by asking questions in "peace-time" which may help during a cyber incident - aka "war-time".
Ransomware, Malpractice, and Impact Dynamics
The distortions created by cyber incidents and the challenge of handling cyber incidents are amplified with the introduction of liability. However, the imposition of death - an irreversible and undesirable impact - shows we need to sort it.
Uncovering Possible
This is the 52nd Tuesday post, closing in on a year of writing. Reflection is standard practice for such a marker, and the term is uncovery. Why this term? So many bits of life are mislabelled; attributed to discovery as something new (or at least new to us). We often look to explore the edges of the map, thinking newness is found in the fog on the horizon. Clausewitz was half right. We are often wrong.
Threat Versus Risk in Cyber
Looking at the distinctions between Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) and cyber risk - both with similar elements with supportive properties, but often misunderstood. Offering definition to aid practitioners, auditors, regulators and boards.
Money Laundering and Cyber Crime
Challenges to the blending of Cyber/Fraud/AML spaces in financial services gives cybercrime more room to maneuver. Criminals find monetisation advantages in victim organisational separations, with innovative solutions based on careful observation and rapid growth in operational maturity. This post uncovers difficulties financial services encounter in cybercrime-monetisation.
On Responding to Complexity
Issues - regardless of scale - often acquire similar responses when the systems are complex. This post looks at components of complex system issue response and reasoning behind it.
Building with Fire
Some things are bent to suit. Some are broken in process. Some things just have to burn. The following are considerations for metaphorical implications.
Need-to-Know Versus Need-to-Share
At opposite ends of the intelligence spectrum, need-to-know (limited audiences) and need-to-share (expansive audiences) vie for dominance. Here we define these practices, associated concerns, and circumstances where one approach is likely preferable.
Maelstrom Advantage 