RISK & CYBERSECURITY

I suspect I’m not the only former or current financial markets technologist that sees parallels between the world of high frequency / algorithmic trading controls and what is needed for appropriate deterministic guardrails around our, mostly, non-deterministic agentic AI systems. As we transition from chatbots to systems of agents, that don't just talk but act, we are entering a regime of automated risk that the financial markets have navigated, mostly successfully, for decad

I first wrote the original of this post over 4 years ago. Having seen a new spurt of discussion about organization politics in various on-line and in-person forums I thought it was time for an update. At every stage in your career and in every part of your role you are going to have to deal with organizational politics. People often construe such politics as inherently negative. Yes, there are some organizations that have toxic cultures where organizational politics looks mo

As we talked about in the last post , a world going through a massive AI-driven transition means speed becomes vital. This is the speed of adapting to change and the speed of dealing with a world of threats, who are themselves moving ever faster. It’s easy to say go faster but this has to be more than just wishful thinking or a line in a strategy document. You actually have to go do some things. You also have to push back against some of the defeatism that permeates a lot of

It’s not often that a force appears that totally re-orients everything in security. This is what we are facing with AI. 12 months ago I had an incrementalist view of the cybersecurity impact of AI. Specifically, that it will be very significant but things will change progressively and we’ll adapt to adversarial use while also using it to improve defenses. Now, I’m coming to a view that this will have a bigger negative impact than even our worst assumptions. But at the same