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A Forgotten Certificate Just Broke Email for Millions. That’s the Real Story.

On Monday evening, Outlook and Exchange Online stopped working. Not for one company, for a meaningful slice of the world. People couldn’t log in. Messages ...
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Screenshot of Manchester Airport Group's customer email notifying passengers that car parking, lounge, Fast Track and WiFi data was accessed in a cyber security incident.

I can change a password. I can’t change my number plate.

I got an email last week that a lot of people reading this will also have had. Manchester Airports Group wrote to tell me my ...
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A darkened open-plan office at night, every desk empty and unlit except a single row still working under lamplight, city skyline visible through the windows.

Minimum Viable Company: What’s Actually New Here?

A term with real momentum, four different definitions, and a decade-old cousin nobody mentions. Ask four different advisers to define “Minimum Viable Company” and you’ll ...
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The most predictable risk in resilience planning is also the most ignored one

Look at the last few days. Heathrow spent part of last week warning passengers off the roads after flooding closed access to two terminals. A ...
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An upward trending graph line behind the figure $4.99 million, representing the rising average cost of a data breach.

The Real Cost of a Breach Just Went Up Again — Here’s What the Number Doesn’t Tell You

IBM published its Cost of a Data Breach Report last month, and the headline figure is the one everyone will quote: the global average cost ...
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A disposable barbecue left on a patch of scorched, tinder-dry grass, illustrating the wildfire risk behind the government's emergency alert.

The Wildfire Alert, and What it Raises

I was in Croatia when the alert went out. The first I knew about it was a flurry of messages from friends back home, then ...
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