On ‘Socialised’ Medicine – Or How Healthcare has Worked for me in the UK

Image from makeandsee.com. So as you may have read yesterday, I’ve had a recent medical issue which has been most unpleasant. The way healthcare works in the UK is that you have to first see your GP for everything (except emergencies), and once you’ve done that, s/he’ll either solve the issue or send you along […]

On Medical Issues

Picture from brainmind.com. So for those of you that read this blog, you may have noticed that I’ve not actually composed anything in a while, and my habit of daily blogging has definitely gone by the wayside. There are two good reasons for this. The first is that I was in the US for two […]

Cybersecurity Trends for 2014 – Trend 6 – Big Data Becomes Huge Data with Things like SSL Visibility

Image from cxotoday.com. Cross-posted to the Blue Coat security blog. Apologies for the delay in getting this last post in the series out, but I recently got married! We’ve looked at five precious trends for this year and what they’ll mean in the Cybersecurity landscape: botclouds not botnets: the idea that physical machines are becoming […]

Cybersecurity Trends for 2014 – Trend 5 – 3rd Party Security Requirements Increase

Image from ctvnews.ca. Cross-posted to the Blue Coat security blog. In the previous post, I discussed how the Deep Web was starting to surface. One of the things that shows that this will occur was the Target breach. The malware found in the Point-of-Sale (PoS) systems in the Target breach was using Tor to transmit […]

Cybersecurity Trends for 2014 – Trend 4 – The Deep Web Surfaces

Image from hackernews.com. Cross-posted to the Blue Coat Security blog. You know something has become popular when you see it on the Netflix series “House of Cards”. There is an episode in Season 2 where one of the characters gets onto the Deep Web in order to try and trap the protagonist. In the end […]