Resilience or Regulation? Europe’s Digital Transformation at a Crossroads
07/01/2025

Resilience or Regulation? Europe’s Digital Transformation at a Crossroads

As Europe introduces the NIS2 Directive and the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), the continent faces a pivotal question: Are these regulatory frameworks merely a defensive response to rising cyber threats, or are they a foundation for a more resilient and innovative digital ecosystem? This article explores how these initiatives intertwine regulation with resilience, shaping Europe’s role in the global digital landscape.

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by Gilles Chevillon
New Podcast: China’s Cyber-Range Exercises
06/12/2024

New Podcast: China’s Cyber-Range Exercises

Mei Danowski and Eugenio Benincasa join us for an in-depth discussion about Chinese cyber-range exercises, on our Secure-in-Mind video/podcast channel

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by Cyan Staff
16 Days of Activism – Against Gender-Based Violence
04/12/2024

16 Days of Activism – Against Gender-Based Violence

CyAN member and VP Kim Chandler McDonald has published several articles under the “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence” campaign.

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by Cyan Staff
21/11/2024

Europe: Prepare for (Cyber) War…

Si Vis Pacem… A recent article published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ – soft paywall) about Germany’s “Operationsplan Deutschland” (English version of the informational brochure here), or OPLAN DEU, has drawn media attention to escalating tensions between the EU and aligned countries, and Russia, …

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by John Salomon
Offensive AI Against Disinformation
12/11/2024

Offensive AI Against Disinformation

This 100% entirely dead-serious (pinky promise) article proposes the use of artificial intelligence as a scalable, economic, and effective counter to disinformation.  

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by John Salomon
Faking GitHub Commits – What Could Go Wrong?
07/11/2024

Faking GitHub Commits – What Could Go Wrong?

Found: a tool creating dummy GitHub source code commits to help programmers game job evaluation mechanisms. This illustrates a deeper issue with how badly designed incentives can have serious security consequences.

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by John Salomon
Keep an Eye on the United Nations Cybercrime Convention
29/10/2024

Keep an Eye on the United Nations Cybercrime Convention

The proposed United Nations Cybercrime Convention creates several provisions to enhance international cooperation in the fight against digital crime. Unfortunately, it also contains numerous flaws that could seriously undermine individual rights and privacy.

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by John Salomon
Subsea Cables Part II – Mind the Sharks
24/09/2024

Subsea Cables Part II – Mind the Sharks

Join us for the second episode of our two-part discussion about subsea cable communications.

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by Cyan Staff
Subsea Cables – A Crunchy Target
10/09/2024

Subsea Cables – A Crunchy Target

In the latest State of (Cyber)War episode, Hugo Tarrida and John Salomon discuss the history and current situation surrounding the world of undersea comms infrastructure,

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by Cyan Staff
29/07/2024

Security is everyone’s responsibility : Crowdstrike and Microsoft

In recent event of global outage caused by Crowdstrike update resulting in BSOD ( Blue screen of death) as security professional and as operations head it’s important to learn the lesson and reduce the changes of this. Otherwise, we have for sure larger catastrophic failures …

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by Prabhat Pathak