Seen near Holborn Station, on the route of the Unite the Kingdom rally. By the artist Frank Riot.

The poster says it better than most speeches:

When the scapegoats are gone, the borders are fortified, and the hatred has done its damage, the cost of living will still rise, the NHS will still be dying, and corporate vultures will still be picking our lives apart.

Who will they blame then?

What will they have gained?

A badge for barbarism against a backdrop of decay.

Local saint St. Brendan's feast day today, so here's an illustrated line from the Prayer Of St. Brendan The Navigator, who is said to have travelled from Kerry in Ireland to America a thousand years before Columbus made his journey. Trust in the darkness ⛵

Prints: https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/i-will-trust-in-the-darkness-a4-and-a3-fine-art-prints

#Art #MastoArt #MastoDaoine #Ireland #FediGiftShop

It's time to meet. 250 CISOs wrote the "AI-storm"-ready security program strategy paper over a weekend, now imagine what we can achieve together when we meet. And, we are: introducing The CISO Summit Series.

We are starting with three expedited strategy summits this coming month, the first of which announced here, is in San Francisco, hosted by Salesforce, followed by New York, with Google, and DC, with Microsoft.

The first summit, at Salesforce is hosted by:
- Iain Mulholland, CISO of Salesforce.

The summit series is chaired by:
- Gadi Evron, founder & CEO of Knostic, and CISO-in-Residence for AI at the Cloud Security Alliance.

SF summit facilitators are:
- Jen Easterly, CEO, RSAC
- Heather Adkins, CISO, Google
- Jason Clinton (J C), Deputy CISO, Anthropic
- Fouad Matin, Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI
- Jim Reavis, CEO, Cloud Security Alliance and CSAI Foundation
- Sounil Yu, CTO, Knostic, former Chief Security Scientist, BofA
- Jason Lish, CISO, Cisco
- Maarten Van Horenbeeck, former CISO, Adobe
- Jason Woloz, CISO, TransUnion
- Mike Johnson, CISO, Rivian
- John Yeoh, CSO, CSA

Participating organizations:
Cloud Security Alliance, Sans, [un]prompted, RSA Conference, FIRST Knostic

Register:
- SF summit, 29 May (Salesforce): https://luma.com/rnc4iy70
- NYC summit, 8 June (Google): https://luma.com/kn2djk5v
- DC summit, 9 June (Microsoft): https://luma.com/jzr25473

Original paper:
https://lnkd.in/dSzexGMP

Note on attendance approval:
The event is limited to CISOs, CSOs, and Chief Risk Officers managing the security program and the budget for the organization.
Space is limited, register soon.

See you there!

"The poor and the middle class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the very rich pay lawyers - and the ultra-rich pay politicians".

#Quote #GeorgeMonbiot #wealth #Inequality #Influence #Politics

"... the upcoming "Tech Sovereignty Package" (TSP) might bring to the cloud computing market. US cloud giants such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google could be restricted in their ability to process specific data types on behalf of public organizations, including financial, judicial, and health-related data."

#Privacy #DigitalSovereignty #TSP #GDPR

https://www.techspot.com/news/112362-europe-may-restrict-microsoft-amazon-google-handling-sensitive.html

What counters ransomware threat actors best, and at what cost? Cybercrime expert Max Smeets details fresh efforts to track four attributes of disruptions — severity, scope, longevity and reversibility, signaling value — advanced by Virtual Routes and RUSI.

Because as their framework notes, "Impact is not unambiguously positive. Interventions do not merely suppress activity. They reshape the ransomware ecosystem."

Check out our interview* here 👉 https://www.databreachtoday.com/wielding-disruption-strategies-to-counter-ransomware-evolve-a-31662 📺

*includes a transcript for anyone who loves to read along