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Rick's First Principles Newsletter

Rick Howard

I study cybersecurity strategies that buy down business risk.

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Latest Issues

Before Volt Typhoon, There Was Breakpoint

Some thrillers age badly because the technology moves on; Breakpoint ages badly because the technology caught up.

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There is a lot to love in this novel. Richard A. Clarke, whom the Cyberse...

5 days ago

The Alan Berry Risk-Reduction Paradox

The first few cybersecurity tools may save the company. The sixty-fourth may just give the team something else to patch, tune, monitor, and explain.

For those who don’t follow me routinely, I wrote a book about Cybersecurity First Principl...

9 days ago
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Everyone Is Performing in Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen’s great trick is not asking whether Elizabeth and Darcy will fall in love. It is asking how anyone can judge character when charm, manners, money, and reputation are all unreliable evidence.

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12 days ago
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Zero Trust, Zero Citations

A white paper with no authors and no sources isn't a white paper. It's a commercial. Anthropic just published a glossy one.

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Anthropic released a white paper recently called Zero Trust for...

16 days ago
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A Man Called Ove, Surrounded by Complete Twits

“Men are what they are because of what they do. Not what they say.”

Readers could dismiss this story as a familiar trope: a lonely old man lives by himself, hated by the neighborhood because he is mean, ornery, and persnickety. But beneath...

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