Author: The Attributer
The Attributer’s Blog – Quantum Ready
Quantum Cryptography Revolution Are you ready for the quantum revolution in secure communications? OK, so you’re not ready. Don’t panic, it’s still a long time coming. However, it is useful to be cognizant with the latest cryptographic developments and to get a glimpse of what is coming over the horizon. These developments will change the way we do things in […]
The Attributer’s Blog – Threat Modelled
The Attributer has become aware that threat modelling is enjoying some popularity at the moment. However, most of what is written and said about it makes little sense. It’s not the role of this column to ‘name and shame’, but if you doubt what is said here, just type the words ‘threat modelling’ into your favourite search engine and read […]
The Attributer’s Blog – Fake Protected
Selling fake goods is nothing new. It dates back to the beginning of commerce. Making fraudulent claims about patent medicines was very common in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the 20th and 21st centuries regulations and laws started to limit the possibilities. The emergence of a consumer society during the late 20th century led to a vigorous trade in […]
The Attributer’s Blog – Trustable Execution
The recent revelations of the Meltdown and Spectre attacks on hardware CPUs brings us back to something that The Attributer has addressed in previous articles: emergent properties of complex systems. (See IB2 in 2016: the attribute Emergent). For those readers who might have missed that article, highly complex systems exhibit unexpected and unwanted behaviours that are the result of component […]
The Attributer’s Blog – Cyber Secured
Two years ago, in the last article of 2015, The Attributer previously published this same title. So why choose the title again? That previous article examined the global geo-political threat landscape and the reasons to take it seriously. In the final paragraph of the article The Attributer wrote: We need to shift into a different gear in our thinking and […]