You won't hear most cyber attacks. The ones that hit the news are the tip of the iceberg. And they're hitting the news more and more. Funny that.
Did you know that supermarket shelves in the Netherlands are empty, and they're exploring emergency food reserves... because of a cyber attack on Albert Heijm?
Did you know French supermarkets have lost millions in spoiled food... because their refrigeration system was hacked?
Were you one of the thousands of ASOS customers to receive a notification declaring that hackers have "fully compromised the snowflake instance"?
This is just the last 2 weeks!!! And these are the ones that are impossible to cover up, we can see the impact. There is no denying or minimising it.
Some people in my security network are worried that AI can do their job for them, that they're redundant... but OMG they are so wrong.
We need cyber security more than ever. Right now!
Not old-school manual triage and acceptable risk, but hands on engineers who understand defence in depth. The folks who know that MTTR and cycle time are more important metrics than CVE counts.
What worked yesterday, won't work tomorrow. It's not working today, clearly. These headlines are just the tip of the iceberg.
if you're interested in bootstrapped startups, AI, cybersecurity, community building or just shenanigans. I'll be posting from the eye of the storm for the 8 weeks as I try to achieve the impossible and have a bloody good time doing it. This is day 18.
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