Anyone working in Cybersecurity can tell you that there are endless fields of specialisation. For example, helping R&D through AppSec, hacking companies through red-teaming, or responding to incidents in a CyberSecurity Incident Response Team (CSIRT). Regardless of speciality, there are skills you will have mastered, and ones you haven’t. In addition to the skills there are knowledge, ways of working etc. connected to each field. We as cybersecurity professionals need to be better at leveraging this diversity of skills and knowledge to our advantage....

Security Champions is a concept that gets more and more attraction. The function might go under another name, such as Security Masters, but the concepts are the same. In this post I will dig into what this role contains and how it can be applied to improve the security posture of an organisation. My experience with Security Champions is in Research and Development organisations, so my views are anchored in RnD....

I’ve previously written about the difficulties of keeping up to date with the current privacy policies of products one is using. Not only are they updated regularly, they are also long and complex. Here Mozilla, the non profit organisation behind Firefox among other things, have created Privacy not Included to help. Privacy not included is a tool where experts investigates the privacy of different products, and gives clear information both what is said in the policy and what data it collects (permissions, sensors on the device etc....

In today’s connected world every little store or office needs internet, and the usual way to implement that is by setting up a WiFi. There are endless products that allow for a plug and play experience for the less tech-savvy users. However, there are some common traps that someone inexperienced might fall into when setting up a network. In this post I will discuss some of these traps and what risk they might impose....

When people are talking about cybersecurity they are often talking about IT-security, but there are also OT-security. But what are the difference? Most people in tech know what IT is, the tech that handles information. The focus is on handling data, collecting, modifying or providing it. OT (Operational Technology) on the other hand is focused on the tech that impacts the real world. An example could be a control-system that manages the indoor climate in an office....