Are industrial control systems the new frontline for cyber warfare?

This article is my thoughts around how warfare is likely to evolve in the digital age. It has been edited down and published as two different articles on various sites around the net. Following is the full (long) version … Warfare down the millennia has always been about brute force, whether that be the hand-to-hand…

Diving the Thistlegorm – one of the world’s top wreck dives.

It’s great when you can combine two of your passions into one activity. Well I love vintage motorcycles and diving. What do you mean, incompatible? Not actually true. There is a dive site you can see 1940s Norton and BSA motorcycles, the wartime wreck of the British supply ship the Thistlegorm. It set sail from…

Will the Internet of Things enable your kettle to steal your car?

Following are some of my thoughts around the impact of the Internet Of Things on security and how it has changed the nature of what we consider to be an “endpoint”.   Will the Internet of Things enable your kettle to steal your car? Barry Mattacott, marketing director at security specialist Wick Hill Group, looks…

My days as a biker and born again biker

Waaay back in the day I started my working life as an apprentice aircraft engineer with British Airways. In those days BA would take in 300 to 400 apprentices a year. They moved us in from the provincial airport towns to Heathrow for training. I was (mostly) brought up in a small village in South…