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Edward Targett

Edward Targett

Ed is co-founder of The Stack, He previously edited the late Computer Business Review, and earlier, Roubini Global Economics. He left school at 15 and has made a living asking "but why/how?" since.

insider threat risks

"In every insider threat case, there is a combination of network activity and employee behaviour. The malicious activity crosses both physical and electronic modalities..."

cloudflare sales layoffs

"When we’re doing performance management right, we can often tell within three months or less of a sales hire, even during the holidays, whether they’re going to be successful or not..."

Pre-auth RCE zero days in Ivanti VPNs are being exploited by a Chinese APT and there won’t be a patch for weeks. Buckle up.

Attackers re-write JavaScript loaded by the VPN login page for the Appliance to capture credentials; also grabbed Veeam credentials, moved laterally for full SYSTEM control.

Patch Tuesday brings lots of chaff, a little buggy wheat too. Some CVE highlights to review.

One vulnerability bears a striking resemblance to an 0day that was actively exploited in the wild in November 2023.

“We have our low latency stream which goes into MongoDB; we have our main engineering pipeline, which goes to S3 and gets encrypted for GDPR purposes. Then we have a Spark stream, which pulls the data into Delta Lake..."

Disclosed ransomware attacks hit two-per day in December: The real figure is ~500% higher

"Simulate and exercise breach readiness, especially abilities to reduce blast radius of a cyber attack. Involve top leadership, the board, and customers in separate cyber war games, as often as practical..."

The Big Interview: Very Group Chief Data Officer, Steven Pimblett

"If you get a good grip on that, happy customers, happy shareholders. If you get it wrong, you are sat on millions of pounds-worth of stock in a warehouse that you have to write off..."

As “Mr Bates” stirs police over Horizon, Post Office burns £31 million on failed cloud migration

Cloud migration "impairment" writes off the equivalent to 81% of the Post Office's annual restructuring costs.

The Big Interview: Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha on going from no running water, to running a $500m business

On Magic Quadrants, deal size, changing approaches to cyber-resilience and learning from his father.

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