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Trends in security, defence and resilience, and the geopolitics shaping them.

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Insider Threat Without the Surveillance State

Most insider incidents are careless, not malicious — yet the tooling many organisations reach for treats the entire workforce as a suspect pool. What proportionate insider risk detection looks like instead.

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Security Culture Beyond Training Modules

A 98% training completion rate says people clicked through slides — not whether they’d recognise a real phishing attempt. What builds security instinct, and why it has to be visibly backed from the top.

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Where Should the CSO Report? The Structure Question Every Board Should Revisit

The reporting line shapes how much influence, independence and budget security has. Three common models, and the trade-offs most organisations inherited rather than deliberately chose.

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Your Perimeter Is Now Your Vendor List

A meaningful share of an organisation’s real risk now sits inside systems it doesn’t own, can’t patch, and often can’t even see. What building genuine oversight of vendor risk requires, beyond the annual questionnaire.

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Why Every Board Needs a Seat for Security and Resilience

Most boards still treat cybersecurity and crisis management as a twice-yearly briefing — with no one in the room able to independently judge whether the organisation’s resilience matches its risk. Two ways to close

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