The Man from Intrepid
I wanted to be a dress maker, not a code maker. The origins of Encrypting Democracy go back more than 40 years. It was 1980 and Neal O’Farrell’s first year at the College of Marketing in Dublin Ireland where he...
The Documents That Prove You Take Security Seriously Are Usually the Least Securely Stored.
Why compliance evidence deserves better than a shared drive – and what storing it properly actually looks like Ask most compliance officers where their organisation’s compliance documents live and the answer is rarely reassuring. A shared drive that everyone in...
The Fraud Hiding in Your Inbox
The Fraud Hiding in Your Inbox Why Business Email Compromise is the most expensive cybercrime most firms still aren’t taking seriously enough A finance director at a professional services firm received an email from a long-standing supplier. The branding was...
The Shared Link Is No Longer Compliant
What NIS2 and DORA mean for how your organisation shares documents and communicates externally Most organisations share files the same way they always have. A document is ready. A link is generated. An email is sent. The recipient clicks. Under...
The Commercial Risk Hiding In Your Inbox
The Commercial Risk Hiding in Your Inbox Why the general email inbox is the most commercially dangerous system in most organisations — and why contract negotiations are where that danger is most concentrated Your organisation’s most sensitive commercial information —...
AI Didn’t Create These Threats. It Just Made Them Unstoppable.
How artificial intelligence is turning familiar attack vectors into something businesses are not equipped to defend against – and what that means for how you share information externally The phishing email has been a known threat for thirty years. The...
The Data Room Was Built for the Deal. Not the Relationship.
The deal closes. The data room is archived. The advisors move on. And then, almost immediately, everyone goes back to email. The lawyers, the accountants, the counterparts, the new business partners – the very people who just spent weeks or...
Email Was Never Built for Client Confidentiality. Most Firms Use It for Nothing Else.
Why professionals are rethinking how they share, communicate, and collaborate A partner at a mid-sized accountancy firm once told me that their most sensitive client matter that year had been managed almost entirely over email. Attachments forwarded between staff. Draft...