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Organizations struggle to balance usability and security in digital environments, often facing a "pendulum effect" where stringent security frustrates users, leading them to ignore rules. This creates vulnerabilities. The solution lies in user-centered design, continuous feedback, and cultivating a security-conscious culture to enhance both security and usability effectively.
Eavesdropping poses significant risks across corporate, government, and military sectors. Unauthorized access to private communications can compromise strategies, steal sensitive information, enable further attacks, and erode trust. Protecting critical conversations demands a multi-layered approach including encrypted communications, secure environments, rigorous training, and comprehensive policies to mitigate potential threats.
The text discusses the threat posed by malicious insiders within organizations, emphasizing that they can cause significant harm through actions like sabotage, theft, and espionage. It highlights the importance of recognizing behavioral red flags, implementing strategic defenses like least privilege access, and fostering a security culture to mitigate these risks effectively.
Cybersecurity hinges more on human behavior than technology, with 82% of breaches resulting from human error. Effective frameworks like NIST and ISO 27001 require organizations to foster a security-focused culture. Training is crucial to reducing risks, as demonstrated by successful interventions in companies like British Airways and Google.
China's rapid advancements in drone technology are reshaping global security dynamics. With AI integration and market dominance, China's military drone capabilities threaten Western powers. Their strategic use of drones in conflict and control over the global supply chain raises significant geopolitical concerns, prompting adaptations in defense and military doctrine worldwide.
Explore the critical role of Emotional Intelligence (EI) in building trust for effective international relations and diplomacy. Discover how AI presents both opportunities and ethical challenges in this complex field.
Military AI drones are changing warfare and creating a psychological minefield. This blog post dives into the psychological impact of drone warfare on soldiers and civilians, revealing PTSD, anxiety, moral injury, and community trauma. Explore the ethical implications of AI making life-or-death calls and the urgent need for more research and support systems.
Well folks, if you haven't been paying attention to who's winning the global drone race, allow me to enlighten you: China isn't just ahead—they're so far in front that Western drone makers need binoculars just to spot their damn dust trail. China's Drone Domination: The Numbers Don't Lie (They Just Hurt Our Feelings) Let's not … Continue reading Dragon in the Sky: How China is Absolutely Crushing Everyone in the Drone Game
Cyber terrorism is the use of computer networks and technology to disrupt, damage, or destroy critical infrastructure or cause widespread fear and panic among the general population. This can include attacks on government websites, power grids, or other critical systems, as well as the use of viruses or other malicious software to damage or disrupt … Continue reading What is Cyber Terrorism?
As advances in artificial intelligence (AI) continue to accelerate, many people are wondering how AI will impact the world of cyberwarfare. While it is difficult to predict the exact ways in which AI will be used in this context, it is clear that it will play a significant role in shaping the future of cyberconflict. … Continue reading AI in Cyberwarfare
For over two decades I was a member to a voluntary fire department, the better part of this time as a battalion chief. This inevitably made me a part of numerous exercises including epidemic/pandemic scenarios. Together with other international best practices, the knowledge I have gained therein have become a part of my work as … Continue reading COVID-19/Coronavirus – Reducing risks to your organisation.
That an increasing amount of corporations were pressing users, and corporations to move to what is now known as the cloud. Back then the associated services were referred to as software as a service/ S a a S. Even 10 years ago this was not the most clever solution to vet your company's existence on. … Continue reading Your cloud software solution should have an offline version for business continuity purposes
The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of the internet and its advancement is that we should have done a much better job in securing it against… well pretty much anything going amok today. But then you start thinking of a famous remark that the internet wasn’t invented with security in … Continue reading Lessons learned from the internet: from creation to finish, what what not to implement into autonomous driving and the smart grid
More often than not when I walk into a building I will see RJ-45 network outlets in the wild. Without having done exact calculations I was able to hook up my laptop to this outlet, and have full access to the network. This goes for supermarkets, public administration buildings, and even military installations. What’s particularly … Continue reading Why a detailed network documentation is essential?
When it comes to security risks for networks, hardly anyone will think of a printer as an existential threat to an organization. However, multiple cases proving that printers, and other IOT devices can act as Trojan horses have surfaced over the last couple of years. There are probably multiple reasons why this is happening, and … Continue reading Printers should be segregated from the rest of the network
You know how you walk into an office building, and the machines standing around have stickers on them with their IP address clearly visible to the general public? Well, thank you for that! You just saved me a ton of work figuring out which printer I want to attack to get access to the rest … Continue reading Why it’s a bad idea to have your device’s IP address publicly visible!
n fact, they do! Unless you are set in a very dynamic environment, where a lot of changes to files in operational Infrastructure happens You have probably follow the trend, and have a cloud-based back up system in place. And that is a good thing to have! The benefits are obvious… Affordable colocation Of your … Continue reading Do encrypted cloud backups have benefits I’m missing?
One of the most problematic issues that is going to strike us in the near future is the cross infection of systems. Currently there are no sane arguments to support insisting on a totally isolated the violin from the cloud storage provider, but the future in cyber security is always very exciting, and surprises us … Continue reading The data you store in the cloud must be segregated from that of other clients
And another blog post from the recent past I outlined why a patch policy and an update policy maybe critical for survival of an organization. On rare occasions, and actually more often than desirable critical software upon which the organization relies to operate cannot be updated or patched simply because this piece of software has … Continue reading Why you should isolate un-patchable, end-of-life software
Justifiably you have the questions poking around in your head about why you should limit physical access to data? The answer is quite simple::: first of all let’s start with a definition of what I actually try to express with this statement. Physical access refers to any one of your employees being able to plug … Continue reading Physical access to data is restricted?