Once a month.
Written by the person who signs it.

What is in it

• One thing that changed, and what it costs you. A regulation, a deadline, a breach pattern worth learning from. Written for the person who has to decide something, not the person who has to patch something.
• One thing everybody is wrong about. Usually something a vendor category has convinced the market is true. This is the section that will occasionally annoy people.
• One thing I got wrong. Mine, recent, and specific. Thirty-eight years of this is thirty-eight years of being corrected by production.
• What I would do about it. Concrete, and free. If the answer is “nothing, ignore this one”, that is what it will say.

Archive

The Dispatch itself has not shipped issue 01, so there is no back catalogue of it yet and I am not going to relabel old posts to pretend otherwise. What is below is the rest of the writing — published, searchable, and a fair sample of whether you want a monthly note from me at all. It is a looser voice than the Dispatch will be, and some of it is not about security. Read a couple and decide.