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This is my personal site where I write about my research into systems thinking, decision making, cyber security, visualisation, and risk management. I am interested in how technology can support decision making within the cyber domain to improve security.
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Cyber-security and the vexed question of global rules
This report offers a global snapshot of current thinking about the cyber-threat and the measures that should be taken to defend against it, and assesses the way ahead.
FiReControl Final Postmortem reveals an “Extraordinary Failure of Leadership”
The United Kingdom National Audit Office’s (NAO) report on the UK FiReControl Project, which was intended to integrate fire department control rooms into nine regional centers, labelled it a “comprehensive failure.”
Internet packets could so have emotions
What if the internet could be given emotion to allow us to see how it is feeling? This framework could be used to express the emotions of a sentient stack.
UK Police launch more cyber e-crime hubs
The UK police capability to tackle the growing threat of cyber crime was strengthened today with the announcement of three regional policing e-crime hubs
Creating a Common Operating Picture in Cyberspace
Successful cyberspace investigations require an ability to piece together disparate technical and contextual data sources to develop a comprehensive picture of an adversary and their methods of attack.
Mikko Hypponen on the three types of online attacker
A great introduction about the behaviour of the East German state that required a sample page from each typewriter to ensure that they could trace which was used to produce any critical articles of the state
Systems Thinking in Circles about Obesity
We cannot and should not rely on intuition alone in managing our bodies. Our bodies don’t work in straight lines!
China Eagle Union
China Eagle even composed a theme song for their organization titled Power of the Night.
Rise of the Ingineer
By the very nature of their jobs, engineers are highly-skilled and technically-minded people.






