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Kate O'Flaherty

Kate O'Flaherty

Kate O'Flaherty is a freelance journalist with 15 years' experience covering cyber security and privacy for publications including Wired, Forbes, SC Magazine, IT Pro, the Guardian, the Observer, Infosecurity Magazine and the Times.

The $0 CISO: Driving change on a shoestring

You've heard of the 10x engineer. What about the $0 CISO? Here’s how to drive change as a CISO with limited budget using processes, culture and open source tools.

Was this DEFCON eBPF bug talk hallucinated?

Updated at 2:26 p.m. on October 15, 2025 to remove an incorrect reference by Chris Wyosopal to kernel structs and verifier hooks in the presentation example code. In August, a relatively unknown security researcher named Agostino “Van1sh” Panico gave a talk at hacking conference Defcon. The 45-slide deck

“The first question customers asked was, 'has any of my data been taken?'”

CEO of fleet management firm Microlise, Nadeem Raza, shares the inside story of the October 2024 cyberattack

Are CISOs overlooking mobile security?

How are security professionals evolving their strategies in line with the growing mobile security threat and what issues should be on CISOs’ radars?

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