I really enjoyed the opportunity to present to the TAFE teachers of the Western Sydney Insititute recently about social computing and its implications for education. Slides follow and more detailed notes will be posted shortly.
Ukraine has shown that modern war is increasingly software-defined, data-dependent and commercially entangled. Salt Typhoon reveals what this means in peacetime: adversaries are mapping telecommunications, infrastructure and digital ecosystems long before a crisis begins.
Most cyber breaches aren’t driven by advanced AI - they’re caused by basic failures like exposed cloud storage and poor data governance. It’s time to refocus on cybersecurity fundamentals.
AI and data teams are heading into a period where hardware scarcity, longer lead times, and rising costs are no longer edge cases but operating conditions.
AI is changing the risk profile of cybersecurity, turning data minimisation from a privacy nicety into a frontline defence. The less data you hold, the less there is for AI‑enabled attackers to exploit.
