Writing & Media
Most of what I write is an attempt to make one of two things obvious: that complexity is doing more damage than most attackers are, and that automation which cannot explain itself is not worth deploying.
AI Agent Governance: Secure Infrastructure Automation
Giving an AI assistant access to information is one thing. Letting it change production infrastructure is another — so identity, least privilege and human accountability have to be built in from day one.
MCP for Enterprise Infrastructure
What changes when AI stops only explaining a problem and starts investigating it across DNS, load balancers, security controls and telemetry — and what that means for running infrastructure.
SOC 2 Type 2 and Operational Resilience
Any provider can claim its platform is secure and resilient. The harder question is whether the controls behind that claim have been independently examined over time — and why that matters for mission-critical services.
AI-Powered Red Teaming Meets Cybersecurity Mesh: The Future of Offensive Security
How AI-assisted penetration testing, attack-path analysis and remediation can work alongside monitoring and response in one cybersecurity mesh — turning occasional assessments into continuous security validation.
AI-Powered Red Teaming Meets Cybersecurity Mesh: The Future of Offensive Security
What happens when offensive automation is pointed at a mesh architecture instead of a flat network.
SMEs Don't Need More Cyber Noise. They Need Self-Defending Businesses.
The argument that smaller organisations are sold more alerts when what they need is a system that acts.
Meditations on the Future of AI — AI-MED-001: Don't Be the Horse
When cars replaced horses, no one asked the horses for permission. A short meditation on adaptation.
Self-Defending Networks: Reality or Fiction?
How much of the autonomous-network promise is engineering, and how much is marketing.
Self-Defending Networks: Reality or Fiction?
Why APIs, AI and automation make coordinated network defence more practical today: connecting multi-vendor tools through central management, shared analytics and orchestrated incident response instead of isolated security silos.
Interested in learning how to become an ethical hacker and protect systems?
A practical starting point for people who want to break things professionally.
Cybersecurity Trends ePublication Q1Y22
A curated edition of security content, insights and thought-leadership from across the industry.
InfoSec Bites — SSL/TLS Offloading Explained
A short video explainer on where TLS offloading helps and where it quietly hurts.
Life's A Breach
PodcastCyber Fusion Distribution
IPSec VPNs have long been the backbone of secure point-to-point communication. In this Life’s A Breach conversation, we explore the quantum threat and how to stay ahead as secure communications evolve.
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Paroles d'Experts
InterviewSeason 2, Episode 5
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The more our society digitalises, the more critical the stakes: the internet and digital services sit at the heart of resilience, sovereignty, governance and even economic competitiveness. Cyberattack attempts have kept rising with the covid crisis and the war in Ukraine, and beyond their number and impact, the very nature of threats is evolving as attackers exploit the uncertainty and fears of organisations. In this episode we take stock of cybersecurity, particularly data sovereignty and governance, with Marco Essomba, CTO of BlockAPT, a central cybersecurity platform that protects websites, e-commerce sites, web portals and critical online business applications.
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TCBN Interview
InterviewTransatlantic Cyber Security Business Network
Andy Williams, Chair of the Transatlantic Cyber Security Business Network, interviews Marco Essomba, Founder & CTO at BlockAPT.
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InfoSec Bites
Training sessionMarco Essomba on YouTube
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A collection of tech bites videos covering network and cybersecurity topics. Marco Essomba, Founder & CTO at BlockAPT, is a Certified Application Delivery Networking and Cyber Security Expert with an industry-leading reputation, and the 2017 runner-up for the UK Cyber Security Awards Personality of the Year.
Watch on YouTubeWhere journalists, broadcasters and event organisers have asked for my view on cyber threats, AI and resilience.
Forbes
“Intel CPU security alert for millions of users as 'unfixable' crypto flaw revealed”
Computing
“Snoop vulnerability could enable attackers to steal data from Intel CPU cache memory”
Verdict UK
“Artificial intelligence and cyber security: a tech match made in heaven”
Paroles d'Experts (TV)
“Cybersécurité : enjeu de souveraineté et défi de gouvernance”
NS Tech
“Virgin Media breach: unprotected database was stored in the cloud”
teiss
“Virgin Media exposed PII of 900,000 users via unsecured database”
teiss
“Hacker groups pledge not to target healthcare organisations with ransomware”
National Technology
“900,000 Virgin Media customers in data breach”
Gurucul
“Virgin Media data breach affects 900,000 people”
Information Security Buzz
“Intel processors vulnerable to newly discovered 'Snoop' threat”
Information Security Buzz
“Visser data breach — supplier to Lockheed, Tesla, Boeing and SpaceX”
Information Security Buzz
“Multiple WordPress plugin vulnerabilities actively being attacked”
ANITH
“123 million records leaked by Decathlon”
Engati
“Top 100 global Twitter influencers to follow”
TCBN
“Transatlantic Cyber Security Business Network — interview with Marco Essomba”
CyberTalks
“In conversation with BeecherMadden on the challenges of end-to-end cyber security”
YouTube
“SSL/TLS offloading explained”
YouTube
“The basics of application security”
YouTube
“BlockAPT — imagine a quantum-secure communication channel”
KUDO Global Stage
“How to avoid going bust using cybersecurity”
Mediterranean Cybersecurity Congress
“Speaker — 1st Mediterranean Cybersecurity Congress, Sicily”
IAMTN Global Money Transfer Summit
“Speaker on cybersecurity — Dubai”
Cyber Security Talks & Networking
“Speaker & host — London”
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