Simple Steps to Make Your Code More Secure Using Pre-Commit

Simple Steps to Make Your Code More Secure Using Pre-Commit

Build Smarter, Ship Faster: Engineering Efficiency and Security with Pre-Commit In high-velocity engineering teams, the biggest bottlenecks aren’t always technical; they are organisational. Inconsistent code quality, wasted CI cycles, and preventable security leaks silently erode your delivery speed and reliability. This is where pre-commit transforms from a utility to a discipline. This guide unpacks how …

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Oracle Cloud Breach Is a Transitive Trust Timebomb : Here’s How to Defuse It

Oracle Cloud Breach Is a Transitive Trust Timebomb : Here’s How to Defuse It

The Oracle Cloud breach didn’t just expose 140,000 tenants, it revealed the silent danger of transitive trust across SaaS ecosystems. This post analyses the breach, outlines what could’ve been done, and offers a practical response guide for engineering and security teams. Featuring tools, trust graphs, and lessons for the road ahead.

JP Morgan’s Warning: Ignoring Security Could End Your SaaS Startup

JP Morgan’s Warning: Ignoring Security Could End Your SaaS Startup

The AI-driven SaaS boom, powered by code generation, agentic workflows and rapid orchestration layers, is producing 5-person teams with £10M+ in ARR. This breakneck scale and productivity is impressive, but it’s also hiding a dangerous truth: many of these startups are operating without a secure software supply chain. In most cases, these teams either lack …

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Trump’s Executive Order 14144 Overhaul, Part 2: Analysis of Post Quantum Cryptography Clauses

Trump’s Executive Order 14144 Overhaul, Part 2: Analysis of Post Quantum Cryptography Clauses

While Part 1 explored how the amendment reinforced a sanctions-led approach and repositioned AI policy within the broader cybersecurity doctrine, this second instalment shifts focus to its most understated move — the cryptographic recalibration. Executive Order 14144’s treatment of Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) may appear procedural at first glance, but in its omissions and realignments lies …

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Trump’s Executive Order 14144 Overhaul, Part 1: Sanctions, AI, and Security at the Crossroads

Trump’s Executive Order 14144 Overhaul, Part 1: Sanctions, AI, and Security at the Crossroads

Trump’s latest Executive Order 14144 marks a strategic pivot in U.S. cybersecurity policy—narrowing sanctions, revoking digital ID initiatives, and mandating standards for AI and software security. In this first part of a two-part analysis, I unpack the deeper shifts beneath the headlines and highlight what practitioners, policymakers, and tech leaders need to watch.

Why VCs in Europe Are Looking at Compliance Startups Now

Why VCs in Europe Are Looking at Compliance Startups Now

IntroductionEurope’s compliance landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. With the proliferation of AI-driven products, tightening regulations such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, and PCI DSS, and the growing complexity of digital operations, businesses are under unprecedented pressure to stay compliant. Compliance automation and RegTech startups are rising to meet this challenge, infusing artificial intelligence and …

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AI in Security & Compliance: Why SaaS Leaders Must Act On Now

AI in Security & Compliance: Why SaaS Leaders Must Act On Now

We built and launched a PCI-DSS aligned, co-branded credit card platform in under 100 days. Product velocity wasn’t our problem — compliance was. What slowed us wasn’t the tech stack. It was the context switch. Engineers losing hours stitching Jira tickets to Confluence tables to AWS configs. Screenshots instead of code. Slack threads instead of …

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How Policy Puppetry Tricks All Big Language Models

How Policy Puppetry Tricks All Big Language Models

Introduction The AI industry’s safety narrative has been shattered. HiddenLayer’s recent discovery of Policy Puppetry — a universal prompt injection technique — compromises every major Large Language Model (LLM) today, including ChatGPT-4o, Gemini 2.5, Claude 3.7, and Llama 4. Unlike traditional jailbreaks that demand model-specific engineering, Policy Puppetry exploits a deeper flaw: the way LLMs …

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InfoSec’s Big Problem: Too Much Hope in One Cyber Database

InfoSec’s Big Problem: Too Much Hope in One Cyber Database

The Myth of a Single Cyber Superpower: Why Global Infosec Can’t Rely on One Nation’s Database What the collapse of MITRE’s CVE funding reveals about fragility, sovereignty, and the silent geopolitics of vulnerability management I. The Day the Coordination Engine Stalled On April 16, 2025, MITRE’s CVE program—arguably the most critical coordination layer in global …

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Innovation Drain: Is Palantir Losing Its Edge In 2025?

Innovation Drain: Is Palantir Losing Its Edge In 2025?

“Innovation doesn’t always begin in a boardroom. Sometimes, it starts in someone’s resignation email.” In April 2025, Palantir dropped a lawsuit-shaped bombshell on the tech world. It accused Guardian AI—a Y-Combinator-backed startup founded by two former Palantir employees—of stealing trade secrets. Within weeks of leaving, the founders had already launched a new platform and claimed …

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