Products built on artificial intelligence and post-quantum cryptography are entering regulated markets at a pace that governance has not kept up with. Data sheets carry performance assertions. Pitch decks promise protection against threats that have not yet materialised at scale. The claims are confident. The evidence behind them, in too many cases, does not exist. This is a vendor-side problem, and it is one the market will correct. Where the Assurance Layer Should Be The de

Claude, AI Watermarks and the New Battle for Digital Trust AI-generated text is becoming impossible to distinguish reliably from human writing. Anthropic has now decided that the answer is to mark it. That sounds simple. It isn't. There is a bigger question underneath Anthropic's decision to embed invisible watermarks into Claude-generated text: Can we build meaningful trust in AI-generated content through provenance, or are we simply creating another signal that will eventua

The sensational headlines surrounding Anthropic’s AI work on HAWK reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of how global cybersecurity actually operates: cryptanalysis is not a panic event; it is the continuous quality-control engine of the digital world. The framing that "AI broke post-quantum security and everything is collapsing" is pure noise. Here is the reality. 1. This Is an Ongoing Discipline Run by Dedicated Teams Cryptanalysis isn't something that happens once in a blu

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

𝐈'𝐕𝐄 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐀𝐈 𝐆𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐈𝐒. Codswallop. Absolute codswallop. - NO YOU HAVE NOT 𝐀𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐩. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐩. 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐠𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫, 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐬. Eve

𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐍'𝐓. 𝐅𝐅𝐒. Every few weeks someone announces the next revolution. AI Governance. Quantum Governance. Sovereign Intelligence. Machine-Layer Authority. Algorithmic Governance. No. You've discovered a new technology, a new risk profile or a new application. You haven't discovered a new discipline. So let me ask one question. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡