November 1, 2025

The definitive account of Stuxnet, read here as an operational case study: how attackers crossed an air gap, borrowed trusted credentials, and made a control room see normal.

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October 1, 2024

Two German volumes on cyber conflict, written from Berlin rather than Washington. Gaycken's argument: for European industry the threat is patient theft of technical intellectual property, not spectacular disruption.

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March 1, 2024

Fred Kaplan's history of cyber warfare finds the threat was foreseen almost immediately and repeatedly deprioritized. Your organization probably has its own version of that pattern in a filing cabinet.

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December 1, 2023

A seventy-five-cent accounting error at Berkeley in 1986 led Clifford Stoll to a KGB-linked intruder. The founding text of intrusion investigation, and still the best argument against ignoring small anomalies.

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November 1, 2023

Jenny Radcliffe is hired to break into her clients' buildings, and she rarely touches a lock. People Hacker shows why the human layer is the one nobody tests.

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August 1, 2023

Joel Brenner, a former NSA inspector general and head of US counterintelligence, argues in “Glass Houses” that cyber exposure is structural rather than a failure of controls: the networks that carry commercial, governmental and personal life were built for reachability, not confidentiality.

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July 6, 2023

Tobias Jaeger, Founder of Falcone International, recently shared his expert insight in a Forbes article authored by Senior Contributor and &Simple CEO Francois Botha about cyber-threats and how family offices can protect themselves against them.

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May 11, 2023

FIRAv2 is Falcone International’s online risk assessment for business leaders who want to identify and measure their own exposure before someone else does. This guide covers how to work through it, how to read the score that comes back, and how to turn the result into something your team can act on rather than a document that gets filed.

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March 20, 2023

FIRA v2 is a free 25-question self-assessment. The on-screen score and area breakdown reflect the answers selected and provide a starting point for discussion and further verification.

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February 23, 2023

Phishing and pretexting work because they target people rather than systems — and the people they target most successfully are the ones with authority to move money or grant access. No amount of security spending closes a gap that opens when someone helpful is asked a plausible question. This piece covers the main forms these attacks take, what they cost, and the defenses that hold up in practice.

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