For whatever reason, senior leadership in Policing often seems to become toxic and difficult. This isn’t the first bullying claim against senior officers. It’s like they get some kind of superiority complex and then start fighting with one and other to prove they are important.

Good morning form a sunny, but soon to be rainy, Edinburgh ☀️🌧️

How (and why) do people read anything on these "news" sites. It's literally just a screen full of ads, with single sentences of 'story' in between (and most of the time, it's click-bait nonsense anyway, not actual news).

My annual “Black Friday email subscription” purge has taken place. Emailing me about Black Friday? Unsubscribed. A yearly refresh of all those websites you forgot you signed up to 😂 I even delete the “Hide my Email” I used to sign up for each one. 🤓

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Good Morning…

A few London councils, with shared IT services, currently dealing with a “cyber security incident”. No firm details yet, but one to watch to see if anything comes from this in the coming days, firstly threat intel and IOCs, secondly for lessons learned.

#AWSOutage #InternetOutage #DigitalResilience

This is a developing story, and again highlights how much of the internet relies on a few key infrastructure providers. Many organisations will be monitoring this closely. Stay up to date: https://t.co/GAoySCtOgt #AWS

I don't know the full details of what has caused todays incident, but Amazon said in one of its updates earlier that the issue "appears to be related to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1".

As you will all know, AWS provides the cloud computing services that power many popular websites, apps, and platforms. This outage appears to be worldwide, with reports of services like Signal, Snapchat, Roblox and more being affected... Roblox offline during the Scottish school

It looks like a major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is causing widespread problems online right now...

Instagram just introduced a “share your location with friends” feature. It’s an interactive map where you can see real time locations of people you follow, and they can see where you are too. How is that a good idea? Why would anyone enable that? I know apps like apples

If you’re tackling AI usage control, identity‑first security, or resilience of your organisation, I’d love to compare notes, especially in public sector environments. #CyberSecurity #AIGovernance #IdentityFirst #ZeroTrust #CloudSecurity #CryptoAgility #Resilience #GartnerSEC

🏃 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗮𝗻. An incident is a matter of 'when', not 'if'. What matters is how quickly you recover. Practice failure scenarios with your third parties, measure your response times, and fix the weak links.

🔑 𝗖𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗼-𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆. New regulations and post-quantum standards are coming. We need to be able to swap algorithms and rotate keys without breaking things. If you can't do that now, it's time to start planning.

☁️ 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗱-𝘁𝗼-𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆. You need visibility, permission controls, workload protection, and pipeline checks. Think of it as a single process from code to runtime, not four separate tools that don’t talk to each other.

🏗️ “𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻” 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘀 “𝗯𝗼𝗹𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝗻.” The simplest way to be safer and faster is to use standard, pre-approved designs for common tasks. It cuts down on arguments, speeds up reviews, and prevents one-off exceptions from becoming tomorrow's incidents.

🆔 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲. With messy networks, who is doing what matters more than where they are. This means: • Making strong, phishing-resistant authentication normal. • Treating privileged access as temporary by default. • Using

🤖 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. People are now letting AI touch real data and systems. To keep this safe, the rule is simple: the more autonomy an AI has, the stronger your guardrails must be. Start with discovery and an acceptable use policy. For