I was reviewing egress logs last month and noticed a file sharing domain I did not recognise getting a steady trickle of traffic from one department. Not a flood. A trickle, which is worse, because a
A banknote carries several small features that are easy to miss until you look for them. There is a thread in the paper, a faint image that appears when you hold it to the light, and ink that changes
Almost every office building has cameras in the lobby, the lift lobby and the back corridor. Nobody watches them all day. They exist so that when something goes wrong, someone can go back and see what
The meeting invite said "security alignment session." I have learned that when the title sounds like that, the first ten minutes are going to be people explaining why the last control broke their work
A Protocol Document With Nine Addresses A clinical-stage pharmaceutical company once prepared a regulatory submission and discovered that its flagship trial protocol existed in at least nine materiall
Opening thesis The clipboard is the cheapest exfiltration channel on a desktop, and it is also the one most likely to be overlooked by network controls. Content moves from a protected application to a
Opening story hook The pumping station sat at the end of a gravel road, and the engineer who serviced it kept the current drawings on a laptop that lived in the vehicle. Updated versions arrived by em
Opening story hook A research consortium studying coastal water quality assembled observations from four partner institutions across two countries. Each partner contributed sensor readings, field note
The Inventory and Reality Drift Apart I’ve opened a lot of asset inventories that looked clean on paper and fell apart the moment you walked around the office. Rows neatly filled in, owners assigned,