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ERP? Done incorrectly? £££

£2.6m to £40m cost for West Sussex County Council. Same sort of issue as Birmingham. How many more are out there? Oracle Fusion rollout costs 15 times council’s estimatesNo it’s not Birmingham this time. West Sussex County Council ERP replacement price to hit £40MThe RegisterLindsay Clark I’

Adequacy in 2025

One for the risk register for 2025 if you do business across the UK/EU. Back in 2021 the EU adopted two data adequacy decisions which allowed the flow of personal data between the UK and EU. Europe warns of threat to adequacy agreementLIBE committee raises concerns about Data Protection

Big not always best

The reference to the lack of a ‘healthy marketplace’ is key. I will admit in the past, when under pressure, I have calmed Exec and Audits with “Don’t worry it’s on Big Provider™️ At Microsoft, years of security debt come crashing downCritics say negligence, misguided investments and hubris

Accidentally running for President

I’m not a user experience (UX) person. But I do have an interest in getting ‘Calls to Action’ correct in communications. We should all do. Anyway, this gave me a giggle. How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland? Quite easy (apparently) if people are only confronted with

LLM's and vulnerabilities

So the latest LLMs are better at exploiting one-day vulnerabilities according to a study. Much better at exploiting than finding. 87% success rate if the CVE has a description. That drops to 7% if there is no description. GPT-4 nutzte 87 Prozent bereitgestellter One-Day-Vulnerabilities ausEine neue Studie zeigt auf, dass

Help the Farmers

I don’t even know which Minister is in charge of this (I looked them up, 🤷‍♂️). I’m very fond of Farmers. Tough and entrepreneurial job and you need to be knowledgable in a lot of things. Quite amazing that only 34 of 101 services can be done online. But

People and process

When you’re having very exciting discussions about integrating AI into your business, do make sure you’re looking at the risk elements to your business (people and process) with as much energy. Ex-athletic director accused of framing principal with AI arrested at airport with gunBaltimore County Police charged Dazhon

Train your teams

A question or a challenge for anyone who has a security team in their org. It came off the back of a conversation about communication to Leadership and buy-in, and I don’t see it mentioned a lot. If you don’t have some sort of Selling/Marketing/Storytelling/Presentation