Pancakes & CyberSecurity

On June 5, 2013, the Guardian began publishing reports on confidential documents supplied to them by Edward Snowden, a private contractor for the National Security Agency. Throughout his career in the NSA, he became aware that the NSA’s bulk monitoring violated US and international law, with the transgressions hidden from public scrutiny by secrecy restrictions imposed and enforced by the US government (Lyon, 2015). His revelations revealed a secret universe.…

I’ve been talking about Black Mirror with my flatmates recently, and it’s made me want to rewatch the episodes. I’m a huge fan, and I’ve seen the episode at least three times and still don’t grow tired of it. So, first and foremost, I would advise everyone to watch this tv show. It’s fantastic and shows a futuristic society in which technology is central to our lives. It enables us…

What is Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI)? In recent years, CTI has been a hot issue in Information Security, however the absence of a literature study on defining the idea, as well as the tendency for corporations to adopt their own definition to differentiate their product, may lead to some uncertainty. There are numerous alternative meanings for this concept. As ambiguous as it may be, CTI can be defined broadly as…

We now hear a lot about ‘cyber diplomacy,‘ a term that blends ‘diplomacy‘ and ‘cybersecurity.’ To comprehend this term, let us first take a step back and define these concepts independently. Diplomacy is the effort diplomats conduct to serve the interests of the governmental institutions they serve, including representation and negotiation. Cyber security refers to the set of procedures put in place to protect physical assets against cyberattacks. In the…

NATO Defense Ministers agreed on NATO’s first-ever Artificial Intelligence strategy on October 21st, 2021. Why a strategy on AI? It is not necessary to look far to observe how Artificial Intelligence, or the capacity of machines to execute activities that would normally need human intelligence (Stanley-Lockman 2021), is revolutionizing the international security context in which NATO functions. Because of its trans-nature, AI will offer a wide range of international security issues, affecting both conventional military capabilities and the domain of hybrid threats, while…