I have been taking, running, and eventually creating cyber security courses for a while. I have had both my Homer Simpson moments and increasingly frequent bright moments. I will try to share them here in two parts, first the D’ohs and then the Dons, and what Dons got to do with this. — “People are the weakest link” myth It is easy to talk about human beings being the weakest link, “people don’t care about security”, ”people can’t handle it”, “people don’t get it” and so on. Is there any other industry or skill area in the worklife where you intentionally downplay the humans while still employing them to…

I exercise, and I like to track it. If I’m not careful, others might suffer a security breach because of it. How is that possible? One of our jobs at badrap.io is to provide simple explanations to (sometimes) complex security issues. This time we are going to take a look…

Our use of security information is far from efficient. Security researchers generate masses of security information, but at the same time, easy-to-fix issues discoverable by third-party security reports go unnoticed, causing havoc and dismay. badrap.io wants to change that. Case in Point Bob Diachenko just revealed Veeam’s marketing database, containing hundreds of millions…

When it comes to isolating networks, DNS servers require special attention. DNS servers may leak information from isolated network by proxying queries all the way to the Internet. At worst, a malicious actor can smuggle secrets out. A few days ago, I detected a +2dB increase in conversation volume somewhere…

If you live in Finland, there is a good chance you will get a warning if your networked devices are in the hands of the criminals. If you work for a critical enterprise your infosec team may get warnings from the government or their threat intelligence vendor. …

Occasionally we celebrate the achievements of Scandinavian ABC startups by picking a new background picture to the scanabc.com webpage. This post tells the stories behind the first three pictures. Next story → 2017–03 — Full Speed Ahead SensorFu is founded. Time to go at full throttle! The day this picture was taken, @Turmi0 gently engaged…

Å, Ä, and Ö met E(stonia) — Occasionally we celebrate the achievements of Scandinavian ABC startups by picking a new background picture to the scanabc.com webpage. We pick the picture from the archives of our entrepreneurs. The inside scoop is here. This time we celebrate Badrap, the last born of Scandinavian ABC companies. And honourable mentions go…

Proper testing of network isolation is getting close to impossible. But in this episode we meet Ossi and Sebastian, who are doing something about it. This blog post is the fourth in the series about SensorFu’s product teaser campaign. Why Scalable Deployments Are Important Proper testing… what does it mean? 1) It happens all the…

You can test drive a car. But you can’t test drive your life. That got us thinking… We invest in inspiring innovations driven by true entrepreneurs. But how to find them? Security Startup Test Drive is one way. >Read more.