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What would you consider your main sport and highlights? My main sport is Ironman triathlon racing. An Ironman includes a 2.4 miles swim, 112 mile bike ride and a 26.2 mile marathon. I love it because it requires 100% commitment in order to do well. In training, you need to balance three sports, family life, […]

What would you consider your main sport and highlights? Motorsport has always been my sport. And always will be. My father raced (not Nigel), I had a go kart at the age of 4. My father’s still racing at the age of 55 – and doesn’t look like he’ll stop anytime soon. In fact we’re

I was privileged to be asked to present at the Information Age Security Leadership on the 12th March. Whilst I have a significant responsibility for security, I’m also conscious that when presenting to an audience who have chosen to attend a security event, I’m usually in the presence of far greater expertise than I can offer. As a

Individually, we simple humans find risk a hard concept to manage. And if that’s true of individuals, it’s also true of groups which explains just why selling increased security or DR budgets to your executive Board is hard, and why actuaries are so well paid. Bruce Schneier’s excellent post on perceived and actual risk is a great place to begin exploring how

Passwords really are awful. I could write an entire post about what an awful concept the password is to base our entire security paradigm on. Yet, still they persist, in the face of constant and public evidence that they don’t really work. They are particularly flawed because they are just not designed for people to use –

“The subway rider should be given only information at the point of decision,” proclaimed the designers. “Never before. Never after.” Back in 1970, Massimo Vignelli and Bob Noorda were commissioned to design a set of guidelines, the Graphics Standards Manual, to help people navigate New York’s mass transit system, and the result was a stunningly precise

This article originally appeared on reed.co.uk’s news site I was recently asked by Clare McDonald (@ClareEllenMcD), at Computer Weekly if I could help with some opinions and figures about recruiting for technology roles, especially in the light of the upcoming A Level results in the UK. As seems to always happen if I’m given the chance

A quick visualization of the gender bias in certain subjects, as found in the 2013 UCAS admissions data which I dug out for my previous post. Computer Science (87% male), Engineering (87% male) and Technologies (85% male) show a woeful imbalance. Education (86% female) and subjects allied to Medicine (81% female) show an almost equivalent

From the book Born to Run, I remember a quote from Caballo Blanco: “Think Easy, Light, Smooth, and Fast. You start with easy, because if that’s all you get, that’s not so bad. Then work on light. Make it effortless, like you don’t give a shit how high the hill is or how far you’ve got