Tag Archives: Threat Intelligence

No Cyber Idea: Why I Built Cyber Tzar (and Why I Don’t Buy the Consulting Model)

Cyber risk has become an exercise in interpretation rather than reduction. The industry has over-optimised for modelling, scoring, and explaining exposure, often driven by consulting-led approaches that rely heavily on subjectivity and narrative. This piece argues that the real problem is upstream: data acquisition, normalisation, and comparability. Cyber Tzar was built to industrialise that problem, collapsing the time between discovery and action, and shifting organisations away from “bean counting” risk towards actually reducing it. The distinction is simple: attackers exploit exposure, not models.

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The Virtuous Triangle: Rethinking Risk at Scale

This article introduces the Virtuous Triangle as a strategic framework for understanding cyber risk through the combined lenses of vulnerability assessment, threat intelligence, and contextual risk analysis. It argues that meaningful risk assessment only emerges when these components are integrated and automated at scale. Drawing on decades of experience, the piece reflects on the limitations of standalone data and the necessity of systems thinking in cybersecurity.

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Driving Cyber Resilience in the Defence Supply Chain: Summary of Key Actions and Recommendations and Some Thoughts

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has issued a call to action for Defence industry CEOs and Defence Leads, underlining the critical importance of enhancing cyber resilience across the Defence supply chain, “Letter from the Second Permanent Secretary, DG Chief Information Officer and DG Commercial to Defence industry CEOs/Defence Leads“. The letter, signed by Paul Lincoln, Second Permanent Secretary; Charles Forte, DG Chief Information Officer; and Andrew Forzani, DG Commercial, stresses the heightened global cyber threat landscape and the need for immediate and robust action to safeguard the UK’s Defence capabilities.

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