Cyber & Risk
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You Start Coding, I’ll Go Find Out What They Want
There is an old industry cartoon where a development manager stands before a room of engineers and says: “I’ll go up and find out what they need. The rest of you, start coding.” For decades, that was a good punchline. It represented the height of mismanagement and the guarantee of a failed project. But as
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The Ghost in the Machine: How Your Unseen Data Will Come Back To Bite You
Your security strategy is only as good as your inventory, and right now, most of us are flying blind. The recently released IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025 highlights a shift that requires the full attention of both tech leadership and the Board. We love to talk about Zero Trust and Al-driven defence,
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When AI Starts Acting: The Governance Gap in Singapore’s (actually quite good) New Framework
Over the last 18 months, we’ve witnessed a fundamental shift in the AI landscape. We have gone from asking models for information to giving them the keys to our systems. This move from “Generative” to “Agentic” AI is not just a technical upgrade; it is a massive change in our organisational risk profile. The Singapore
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Why Manual Oversight is Now Your Greatest Systemic Risk
I’ve spent a lot of my career looking at the friction between how we want to work and how we actually deliver, and I have noticed a recurring issue that has nothing to do with the quality of the applications we build. We are hiring incredibly talented engineers to write high quality code, but we
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Scaling Governance for AI
I keep hearing the same dismissal from technical leaders and executives when the topic of AI in the development cycle comes up. They point to issues with code quality, the introduction of security vulnerabilities, or logic that simply doesn’t hold up under pressure. They claim that because a Large Language Model currently performs like a
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The Governance Blindspot: Mistaking Recklessness for Speed
If there is one mantra that has defined the last decade of tech, it is “move fast and break things.” And looking at the Australian ecosystem right now, we are certainly moving fast. But I worry we are about to break the wrong things. There is a dangerous disconnect playing out in our sector. On