The CyAN Blog
Cybersecurity Advisors Network’s blog is a forum for CyAN members and friends to present their work and analysis to the broader information security community.
Python Didn’t Bite, the Supply Chain Did by Michael T. McDonald
There’s a particular kind of failure in modern software that doesn’t announce itself with alarms or outages. No flashing dashboards, no immediate disruption. Everything appears to be working exactly as expected. Until, quietly and without ceremony, it isn’t. A widely used Python package, pulled in …
Signals Over Substance: Navigating the Attention Economy
In a recent article (see link in the comments below), I revisited a framework I developed more than a decade ago while writing Flat World Navigation, Collaboration and Networking. At the time, I was trying to make sense of what felt like a shifting economic …
Livre Blanc CyAN – Loi 05-20, ISO27001 et Résilience Cyber – Mars 2026 by Gilles Chevillon and Aymane Nasser
You can download this PDF by clicking the three dots icon on the far right and selecting Download PDF File. For the best reading experience, we recommend enlarging it by clicking the fullscreen icon, which is the third icon from the right. Loi 05-20 et …
Parents and companies need to act against social media harms by Shireen Vakil
Platforms often introduce safeguards only after problems emerge rather than building protections into their systems from the start. This places an unreasonable burden on children and parents Parents and companies need to act against social media harms Source: The Indian Express Read the full article …
Partnership signed with National Law University, Jodhpur, India
Cybersecurity Advisors Network (CyAN) signed on 23 March 2026 a Memorandum of Understanding with National Law University, Jodhpur, which is consistently ranked among the top 5 National Law Universities in India. This partnership marks the first institutional collaboration of its kind between a National Law …
Please Welcome Our Strategic Advisor for Europe from Netherlands, Sarah Jane Mellor
The very first European Deep Tech Week is taking place in Paris this week, aimed at bringing ecosystems closer and building Europe’s technological competitiveness. Cybersecurity will be among the verticals in the spotlight and our very own Sarah Jane Mellor will moderate the panel on …
From a Flat World to Neo Symbolic Capitalism: Revisiting the Digital, Attention and Collaboration Economies
A few days ago I was reading a thoughtful piece by Om Malik about what he calls Neo Symbolic Capitalism. Halfway through the article I had one of those slightly strange moments of intellectual déjà vu. I realised I had been thinking about these same …
