Google Workspace has become the de-facto collaboration suite of choice for many a startup, and for good reason. It’s easy to get started. You can scale up your users and features as you grow. …

If there is one thing any Slack user needs more of, it’s messages, and in this post we’re going to be looking at how to get more messages. Specifically, messages transmitted from the flight deck of nearby aircraft into your favourite productivity and GIF distribution tool, Slack. I recently built…

We’re in this strange ol’ time where it feels like so many aspects of our lives are maintained by ubiquitous, real-time connectivity to the internet — yet, the stability and trust in that connectivity, and the services that provide it, is slipping away at an alarming rate. We’ve seen, over…

You’ve may have heard of the book “Extreme Ownership”. It’s written by a couple of former Navy SEALs — Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. In addition to being a New York Times bestseller, it holds what is perhaps a higher distinction: it’s a business and leadership book that I’ve read…

Before I get into this, I should probably explain. This has been a pet peeve of mine for a while, and I get extremely wound up about it. Having written this, it sounds a little ranty, and for that I apologise, but please understand I am British and like to…

When you think of the term ‘critical infrastructure’, what comes to mind? Well, typically, it’s things that are required for our modern lives to function with some degree of normalcy. Water, power, transportation, food, healthcare, communications, for example. …

You can outsource the function but not the risk, and that’s why we (should) all do SaaS vendor risk assessments. Vendor assessments can of course be time consuming affairs, both for the assessed and the assessor (you don’t wanna know how many times I spell checked both of those words). …

As a British person, nothing motivates me quite like getting annoyed by a thing, and I’m extremely annoyed at the moment. I’m annoyed that so many good, hard working people in our industry (and others, of course) are faced with the anxiety of being laid off and having to scramble…

The Blue Team is charged with defending an organization against an array of technical security threats. The Blue Team Diaries allow the reader to ride along with the Blue Team at Syntatic, a Seattle-based cloud company, who are charged with keeping millions of customer records safe. Based on the author’s…