The Cybersecurity Consultant

How to shake off the security imposter syndrome?

Note: This is first quick draft – further editing needed. Most of newcomers to the security industry they tend have that security imposter syndrome, well I know it from first hand experience, as I was one of them.

Ransomware and your deep pocket?

A lot of companies big names are falling victims of ransomware and I am afraid most of organizations are not well equipped to fight these new waves of attack and ending up coughing €£$. Garmin felt victim to one of these attacks, and as a user of its services I was affected for a few days without sync my data to the right cloud services.

What can we learn from COVID-19 pandemic?

This post have been sitting on my draft inbox for about 3 weeks, when things werent bad as it is right now. The public data for UK, death numbers are in excess of 9500 as of 11th April 2020. No news of vaccine or way to contain the virus, but my hopes are high and to play my part I follow what the UK government advises us to do.

Will it make a difference if we do security for business sake?

The security departments and the business always crash when comes to justify security expenses in the context of business justification (why did you buy that NAC device for?)My idea is basically in everything that security department do, should be prefixed with the word business e.g. business cybersecurity , business security incident management , business penetration test (you get the idea).

Can you start building a security architecture without a foundation?

Ideally constructing a building (e.g. house), you start from 0 to 100, i.e. build a foundation, erect the structure then fit the windows, roof and finish off with the cosmetic tasks like painting, plumbing etc. While this kind of building up is ideally and feasible for physical construction of things like e.g.