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While looking into IT Service Change Management, and primarily in accordance with ITIL, there was one thing that stood out. There seems to be a disconnect between the the development point of view and how change management is implemented by operations. With that I mean that the implementations I have seems to be more applicable for finished product than with software developed in house. The change management processes works when a change is either adding a new product or installing a new version....

In the world of cybersecurity there is a lot of specific definitions, a type of insider lingo that we assume that everyone agrees on the definition of. However, herein lies the problem. We assume, without discussing. I have ended up in multiple discussions that occurs due to different interpretations of a definition. In this post I’ll give my view of one of the biggest differences of definition that I have seen, namely what we include in the term cybersecurity....

As security professionals working with software components it is not always easy to prioritise what security raising actions should be prioritised. According to most security standards (such as ISO27000) require a risk based security approach. Regardless if we are building our own applications, or we are installing third party software in our network we need to understand what threats there are to our environment. After understanding what threats there are, we prioritise them and thereby also prioritise what actions we should take to minimise the risk....

Lately there has been an increase in discussions about the use of end-to-end encryption for consumers. The most blatant attack on privacy I have read about is the so-called EU Chat Control. But there are other regulations as well, such as the UK Online Safety Bill. Chat Control (EU) Let’s begin with the European Union, and what is usually called Chat Control. This regulation aims to protect children from abuse by forcing both hosting and communications services to reduce the risk of the service being used for Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) by...

It has recently been reported by The Guardian that Saudi Arabia has taken serious steps to influence the information available at Wikipedia. The investigations began after two volunteers at Wikipedia were put in jail for “swaying public opinion” and “violating public morals.” Since then Saudi Arabia seems to have stepped up their efforts to influence the public view. An internal investigation at Wikimedia showed that all of their administrators in the country were government agents....