Euan - Cyber Discord

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Euan

Scot Secure West 2025

Scot Secure West 2025

I am presenting at the Scot Secure West Conference in Glasgow. Titled "AI and Its Integration Problem". I have attached the slides from the conference here as well as a blog post accompanying the conference talk. AI and Its Integration Problem: Why I Built My Own Think about

Nomad - Threat Intelligence Framework

Nomad - Threat Intelligence Framework

I have been working on a new project for a while. The biggest issue I have is the amount of data that is produced on products, breaches, leaks, latest news, the newest exploit code. There is a lot, and if you a re reading this post you probably already know

It's not vibe coding it's solution coding.

It's not vibe coding it's solution coding.

The "vibe" coding phenomena has taken off with the likes of lovable, cursor and Claude Code appearing on the scene. While I think asking an LLM to do all the coding for you is tantamount to disaster with the security aspects of applications. I have been building on

Experiment: Gathering cyber attack information

Experiment: Gathering cyber attack information

For about a month now I have been ingesting the cyber breaches reported by the European Repository of Cyber Incident (EuRepoC). I have an automation that every day takes the RSS feed from the EuRepoC that details cyber attacks and feeding the content into a vector store. I have been

AI in Cybersecurity: My Thoughts on the Double-Edged Sword

AI in Cybersecurity: My Thoughts on the Double-Edged Sword

I've been thinking and working with quite a bit about AI lately. While everyone's talking about AI transforming various industries, its role in cybersecurity is particularly fascinating - and somewhat concerning. The Good Stuff: AI as Our Digital Shield Let me break down how AI is

The Bias of GenAI

The Bias of GenAI

OpenAI just launched their new model o1-preview. As a ChatGPT pro user, I have the privilege of accessing it directly from launch. The first thing I tried was to simply explain the three lines of defence model (for a future essay I am writing). The reasoning ability was quite impressive,

Font of all reading

Font of all reading

I am dyslexic. I used to see it as something to hide when I was at school and in higher education, but as I entered the workforce and started to learn that being neurodivergent compliments the rest of a team. My dyslexia is more dyscalculia which is “a learning disorder

Time to think

From the moment I start my work day I am on the go, working across multiple time zones means my day starts early. At times I go from meeting to meeting, which is exhausting as my brain never gets time to actually process the events of the previous meetings before

Should I buy Perplexity Pro?

Should I buy Perplexity Pro?

I have been on somewhat of an AI drive of late. I have been trying to not just use AI in the sense that people are using as a chatbot, but I'm using AI to augment my work, to speed up my comprehension, make things easier to digest.

The Browser Choice

I am a child of the early Internet browser. Nothing will replace my beloved Netscape Navigator. It was the first browser that I ever used. Although, the all powerful Internet Explorer all but wiped it from the face of the Internet. There was something that to me is nostalgic about

Generative AI

I have been exploring the uses for generative AI across a few areas of my work. Due to the nature of my work it is not possible to send documents to ChatGPT, or others for that matter, to ask it questions. While I can use internal GenAI tools that are

Journey to the CISSP

Journey to the CISSP

It was never my intention to pursue the CISSP certification. However, in 2019, I considered obtaining the SSCP as a stepping stone towards CISSP. At that time, I was deeply entrenched in a technical role, dealing with the daily intricacies that justified my need for the SSCP. Despite my initial