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Dealing with AI Risk

Every few years, something new comes along and the infosec community collectively loses its mind. AI is no different. Businesses are moving fast, GRC teams are scrambling to catch up, and everyone is asking the same question - how do we manage this risk?

I've been in this space long enough to know that the answer is usually simpler than it looks.

Australian ASX Domain Security Report

I do a lot of work with Australian ASX companies, so naturally I've been inspired by Scott Helme's Crawler Ninja project to get a sense of where the security posture of all these companies sits. There's a ton of information that every website reveals about itself, so by simply looking at what they publicly tell the world, let's do a bit of a deep dive for the month of July.

Zero Trust for Applications

The Zero Trust methodology has been around for a while, and many organisations have been implementing Zero Trust principles. When considering applications deployed in an enterprise, organisations typically implement zero trust at the infrastructure layer, protecting access to and from applications and securing network communications.

Infrastructure-level protection is essential, but there's another threat vector: the application itself. While SDLC processes and security tools help secure code, there's an opportunity to implement Zero Trust principles directly within applications.

Reporting Tools Overview

As a Cyber specialist, I have had to develop quite a few security dashboards over the years. This has lead me down a path of data engineering, combining my expertise in Cyber engineering with data. While working with different reporting tools, I have come to know some of them quite well, and in this blog post, I will share some of my thoughts on the different tools, and give you a bit of insight to which one to choose for your next project.

HOWTO: Host your own reporting platform on AWS

Metabase and Grafana are both quite capable reporting platforms. Both vendors offer you the ability to run the software for free on your own infrastructure, so it's quite an attractive option for companies who would like to have some business intelligence capability without breaking the bank. In this guide, I will show you how can use the Cloudformation template to deploy these reporting tools on your aws environment.

Security is not Compliance

Some companies like to combine their Security and Compliance teams into one entity. I've worked in environments like that before, and I can tell you from experience that it is usually a bad idea to mix the two. Let's dig into it.