Cyber security blog

There have been plenty of privacy and security discussions about the potential reach and impact of GDPR in NZ. It may feel like privacy regulations in Europe are a distant concern to New Zealand compa…

Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that provides computers – or in the case of Mr Burns, monkeys (see clip below) - with the ability to learn without being explicitly programm…

“Only amateurs attack machines, professionals target people” Bruce Schneier

In my last post I discussed some of the wider aspects of cyber security in an attempt to abstract the discussion from pure IT security. This time around I thought it would be helpful to delve into a c…

A few years ago I was on the team that developed the UK’s Cyber Doctrine for the Ministry of Defence. One of the first tasks was to agree on a common lexicon, then map similar terms across different o…