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Gary Shewan

Gary Shewan

📍 UK

Crowdstrike RCA is out

In incident response, security and GRC I’ve often asked the question “How do we train people without the pain?”. There’s no better teacher than experience. But sometimes that comes with trials and tribulations. The longest time I spent managing an incident was 27hrs straight. The dark hours were

Delta CEO speaks

I don’t like watching video, I prefer reading. But somebody recommended watching this. Delta Airlines CEO Ed Bastian talking about Microsoft and CrowdStrike. Yes, the commentary has been done to death at this stage. But everybody in Technology should listen to this. This is a MAJOR customer who’s

Check the superusers

When someone with any kind of authority or access leaves an organisation, it should trigger a review of accounts. Execs, System Owners and Super Users. You should be doing that at least once a year anyway. But also asap when someone like that leaves. To justify this in the past

ICO report on Electoral Commission breach

Sometimes I like to share these kinds of things as they’re good to learn lessons. The ICO has released their report on the breach of the Electoral Commission. Cyber-attack on UK’s electoral registers revealedThe Electoral Commission warns the public to be vigilant for unauthorised use of their personal

Ferrari deepfake scammer

I’ve posted about this kind of thing before, but it’s really interesting as it’s happening more and more. You can’t buy a solution to prevent this. It’s about people and process: Ferrari exec foils deepfake attempt by asking the scammer a question only CEO Benedetto

Show me the other money

This is a long but good read. Zitron really researched this. How Does OpenAI Survive?Throughout the last year I’ve written in detail about the rot in tech — the spuriousness of charlatans looking to accumulate money and power, the desperation of the most powerful executives to maintain control and

Can it forget?

Interesting. This might be why a lot of tools aren’t currently being released in the EU? Pesky ‘Right to be forgotten/erasure’ eh? Making AI models ‘forget’ undesirable data hurts their performance | TechCrunchA new study finds that making generative AI models ‘forget’ information hurts their performance on other tasks,

Model collapse again

Ah ‘Model Collapse’ is rearing its head again. So the problem still stands. I haven’t seen anything recently on ‘Temporal Degradation’ - but they keep releasing new versions. ‘Model collapse’: Scientists warn against letting AI eat its own tail | TechCrunchIf the models continue eating each other’s data, perhaps

It can't summarise

This is the kind of thing I like to see. Somebody with multi-domain knowledge putting the work in and checking claims. In this case ‘Can ChatGPT summarise a document?’ And then looking at it from an unbiased point of view: When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind.

EDR's can save you

EDR’s have probably been questioned a bit over the past couple of days. “Do we really need them?” kind of questions. This is a good example of how they can save your skin: “We sent them their Mac workstation, and the moment it was received, it immediately started to