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THE AI CHALLENGE - GOVERNANCE
Without sounding narcissistic, we’re often told we’re opinionated. Everyone is 100 percent correct. We are, and we will remain so. Not for ego. For rigour. If a proposition is weak, confused or stretching novelty beyond necessity, it should be challenged. Governance is a mature discipline. Reinventing it with diagrams and slogans helps nobody. Yesterday was a good example. A post appeared describing AI governance as a neat four layer staircase. I challenged it: "This is a per
Brian Couzens
Jul 162 min read


The Fortinet 73,932 Breach Wasn't a VPN Failure. It Was a Cryptographic Governance Failure.
The disclosure of 73,932 compromised Fortinet firewall URLs is not just another VPN incident. It is a cryptographic governance failure at global scale and a perfect illustration of why organisations must treat HNDL (Harvest Now, Decrypt Later) and HNFL (Harvest Now, Forge Later) as present-tense operational risks rather than abstract quantum-era hypotheticals. The incident was empirically documented by Volodymyr "Bob" Diachenko, who discovered the attacker-controlled server c
Brian Couzens
Jun 212 min read
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