And it’s not just the new kids on the block that need a helping hand to get started, get momentum, or find their balance. I’ve been struck more and more recently by how cloud migration, change management in IT, and the shift from Waterfall to Agile is not actually dependent on the technology, products, or platforms — but on a deeper cultural shift within organisations. We’re moving from environments where expertise was built on physical systems — coax, cabling, server rooms,

You've been brought into a new Security Function, you're faced with a vulnerabilities backlog expanding 4 years and running in the thousands. It's more than tempting to throw your army of security engineers or cloud platform engineers at critical CVSS scores. The burning question is, will this actually improve your security in reality. What are you trying to achieve. Companies are often chasing the remediation of CVSS critical scores, like a race against the clock, trying t

I went off radar last weekend, unplugged and completed the Mourne Mountain Marathon, a 45km Mountain run/orienteering/survival test over 2300m in ascent. This isn't your average mountain run, completed over 2 days in teams of 2, carrying mandatory tent, stove, kit and rations for 2 days on the mountain. The course planner is renowned for a possessing a sadistic side that involves him pitting his course against the competitors, the more retirees, the better he did! This man

We've all been there, and hopefully we hated it so much we changed our ways and sorted out a decent log parsing and analysis system! I know I did. So you've done it! You've built the perfect logging and monitoring system. You've done the data analysis and have your alerting on your baselines, you've got your max/min thresholds set, you've done your averages and CPU, hooked in your Cloudwatch and alerting. You are set! Well Done you! Except you weren't expecting this 3 hour