Blog by Benjamin Langrill

Ever since the beginning days of "the cloud" I have always been skeptical of using "someone else's computer" to do sensitive work. I realize the incredible security effort companies like Amazon and Microsoft put into their systems -- commensurate to their Security Energy -- but ...

The answer: yes

The recent Bybit hack is great example of a highly sophisticated cyber-attack motivated by highly liquid money. It underscores how crypto-related companies need to scale their security energy to account for higher risk. The attackers made off with 1.4 Billion dollars in Ether ...

Two notable examples are:

• Cyber training
• Penetration testing

In the former, you can say "spend money/time on this cyber training and you will be get more $$$ at your job." The key thing to note is that this is mainly targeted at individuals or academia. Once in a job, there is limit...

 You are the cyber operations manager for the nation of Gorgas.

The targeting analyst on the other side of the table slides a paper over to you. It details a risk assessment of a proposed operation that will advance your national objectives but requires using some high value bespoke capabilit...