Kathy is one of four directors-general at SIS, each of whom reports to the chief, known as "C". For the first time, three of them are women. They work in the most important and rapidly evolving areas of spycraft. Kathy is director of operations. Rebecca is the chief's deputy, who oversees strategy. The most storied MI6 job of all belongs to Ada, who is the head of technology, known as "Q" after James Bond's mastermind gadgeteer. I have spent six months interviewing them about how they reached the top in a traditionally male career and trying to understand what the life of a female spy is really like.
Good managers thrive in ambiguity. To good managers, the world isn't good or bad - it's complicated. Good managers find a way to have great outcomes without relying on simplifying models of people and the world around them.
FBI officials on Tuesday dropped a major bombshell: After spending years monitoring exceptionally stealthy malware that one of the Kremlin's most advanced hacker units had installed on hundreds of computers around the world, agents unloaded a payload that caused the malware to disable itself.
All organisations waste a huge amount of time believing that they are making progress on decisions, when in fact they're just involved in the theatre of decision making. This happens through indirect actions that feel like progress is being made, but in fact contribute nothing to it. Small changes can speed up progress dramatically.
In 2022, CISA conducted a red team assessment (RTA) at the request of a large critical infrastructure organization with multiple geographically separated sites. The team gained persistent access to the organization's network, moved laterally across the organization's multiple geographically separated sites, and eventually gained access to systems adjacent to the organization's sensitive business systems (SBSs). Multifactor authentication (MFA) prompts prevented the team from achieving access to one SBS, and the team was unable to complete its viable plan to compromise a second SBSs within the assessment period.
Wow. Very impressed by the transparency shown in this report by the CISA red team. More of this, please.
The U.S. State Department is going sans serif: It has directed staff at home and overseas to phase out the Times New Roman font and adopt Calibri in official communications and memos, in a bid to help employees who are visually impaired or have other difficulties reading.In an akward bit of news, Microsoft announced a successor to Calibri just 7 months later.
For the fourth time since 2007, an internal audit shows the Department of Homeland Security isn't deactivating access cards in the hands of ex-employees, leaving its secure facilities vulnerable to intruders.
How the downfall of one intelligence agent revealed the astonishing depth of Chinese industrial espionage.
After five years of fighting legal battles to prevent this undesirable outcome, Meta has finally agreed to ask Instagram and Facebook users in the European Union for consent before targeting them with highly personalized ads, a Wall Street Journal report has revealed.
Over the years, eagle-eyed cereal munchers have also noticed an important error in the uniform of one Cap'n Horatio Magellan Crunch: The gold stripes on his sleeves are below his rank.