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Seamus O'Leary

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Practical security writing for small teams without a big budget.

Seamus writes about getting solid security in place on a small budget, with an eye for the low-cost changes that remove the most risk.

His starting question is always the same: what is the cheapest thing you can do today that an attacker would hate.

1 article by Seamus O'Leary

My Cyber Insurance Wake-Up Call: Why Your Insurer Should Be Your First IR Phone Call

My Cyber Insurance Wake-Up Call: Why Your Insurer Should Be Your First IR Phone Call

Right, so I'll be honest. Six months ago, I thought cyber insurance was just another checkbox on the compliance list. Pay the premium, tick the box, hope you never need it. Then Noel challenged me to actually read my policy and treat my insurer as an incident response partner. What I found changed everything. Turns out my €10,200 annual premium wasn't buying risk transfer. It was buying a specialist IR team, forensics support, tabletop exercises, and gap assessments I'd been trying to budget for

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