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May 29, 2018
Privacy, security and the impact of GDPR in NZ
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 companies, but the reality is that the security and privacy landscape is changing. Being left behind in the way that we treat critical business assets, like information, is no longer an option.
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December 18, 2017
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cyber Security
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 programmed. Computers use algorithms to learn from past data to predict what may happen (predictive analysis), and can adapt when exposed to new data.
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August 14, 2017
Cyber Security: targeting
“Only amateurs attack machines, professionals target people” Bruce Schneier
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June 29, 2017
Cyber Security: attack surface
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 couple of concepts that make it easier to focus our limited defences rather than trying to defend against all the threats all of the time. Cyber defence is a zero-sum game and time spent doing one thing means it can’t be spent doing something else.
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June 1, 2017
Cyber Security: let’s talk about terminology
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 organisations and discard any legacy terms to avoid confusion. No other government department had decided to implement a common framework for cyber security, let alone define a common language to be used. This was a bit of a first.
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April 10, 2017
Bake it in, don’t sprinkle it on – a holistic approach to cyber security
Jeremy Jones has recently joined Theta in a newly created role, Head of Cyber Security. In his first post in our new cyber security blog, he outlines his vision for cyber security at Theta.