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Self-Awareness and Cognitive Fitness to Increase Performance

Bec McKeown discusses the importance of cognitive fitness, which involves agile thinking and cognitive techniques for decision-making. She emphasizes the significance of self-awareness, recognizing one's strengths, weaknesses, and development needs. In a team, this self-awareness helps individuals focus on their strengths and collaborate effectively, acknowledging that nobody excels in everything. The challenge lies in fostering interest in self-awareness among people.

How to Discover and Secure Open Port Vulnerabilities

Open port vulnerabilities pose a significant security risk to your organization. If left exposed, ports are a gateway for hackers to breach your network and steal your data. But what are open ports, why are they a security risk, and what can you do to close open port vulnerabilities? Let’s answer your open port questions.

Cyber Threat Modelling

Do you model Cyber Threats, depict likely attack scenarios via Attack Trees and provide those findings back in a succinct manner to those responsible for the risk(s)? Surely that’s for the proviso of large companies, with big budgets and oodles of staff? I hear you say… Perhaps, but any organisation large or small can start to model their Cyber Threats. Why?

2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: API10:2023 Unsafe Consumption of APIs

Welcome to the 11th post in our weekly series on the new 2023 OWASP API Security Top-10 list, with a particular focus on security practitioners. This post will focus on API10:2023 Unsafe Consumption of APIs. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the impact and what you can do about it.

Human Psychology on Immediate Threats | Bec McKeown

Bec McKeown explains how the brain prioritizes immediate threats by filtering out irrelevant information. She discusses how various situations, such as sudden realizations or encountering a ransomware attack, trigger physiological reactions like palpitations, sweating, and a sense of dread. Bec McKeown also mentions how during intense moments like a car accident, the brain's cognitive processes make time seem to slow down as it focuses solely on the threat, excluding all other details. This phenomenon is referred to as cognitive narrowing.