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Gary Shewan

Gary Shewan

📍 UK

Repeated mistakes

When you have an incident and do a Root Cause Analysis (RCA). The ‘What?’ and ‘How?’ are usually easy to determine. Usually. But the most important question that rebuilds trust and shows that you and your teams are in control, is ‘Why?’. You need to understand and communicate the ‘Why?

It's the kids

Security vendor presentations - hooded figures hunched over a laptop. Talk of nefarious technically superior worldwide gangs, nation states and the potential scourge of unstoppable AI. Meanwhile a 17yr old from Walsall in the West Midlands for the lolz with a convincing phone manner. UK cops arrest teen suspect in

State of Ransomware - Sophos

Sophos report on the state of ransomware in critical infrastructure in 2024 here The State of Ransomware in Critical Infrastructure 2024275 IT/cybersecurity leaders from the energy, oil/gas and utilities sector share their ransomware experiences, providing new insights into the business impact of ransomware.Sophos NewsPuja Mahendru Only 31%

New Bills

The new Government seem all very sensible, professional and boring so far. Let’s hope that continues. I did see the following Bills in the Kings Speech: ‘Digital Information and Smart Data Bill’ and ‘Cyber Security and Resilience Bill’ My blood ran cold at the mention of that first one

It's Gartners opinion

Interesting analysis from Gartner. Yes, things have been incredibly slow, but do CIOs really have ‘change fatigue’? Gartner nudges down global IT spending forecastMeanwhile, software vendors are left paying the GenAI ‘tax’ as users yet to see valueThe RegisterLindsay Clark “IT services spending is now projected to rise 7.1

ERP Projects always a disaster?

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. Same for ERP projects? Far too many cliches in the below. Practically a case study in what not to do. Who cares what the business or users want/need, we have a system to

AT&T pays hacker

In the space of three(ish) days I’ve linked to articles where hacker payments total almost $25.4m. The latest is $370k paid by AT&T to ‘delete’ the enormous amount of data that was stolen. Proof, apparently, was a video of the data being deleted from Cloud

We should be worried about the AMOC

Sustainability is not just about producing CSRs, or it shouldn’t be. It’s why I can get quite fervent about the impact of technology and solutions. Looks like a second study has been released predicting the collapse of AMOC before the turn of the Century (2050 mean in this

CISA Red Team report

This is a very good read for security teams. CISA’s Red Team report on how they breached a Federal organisation. CISA Red Team’s Operations Against a Federal Civilian Executive Branch Organization Highlights the Necessity of Defense-in-Depth | CISACybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA

Big Tech Carbon Neutral?

Amazon claims 100pc renewable energy target reached, seven years earlier than planned. That’s very good. Albeit with a teeny smidge of ‘Trust us’. Does matched = offset? Amazon claims breakthrough with ‘100pc’ renewable energy target reached for data centresAmazon claims that it “matched” its operations’ entire electricity consumption with renewable