On Thursday 22 October 2026, in the middle of the biggest web security emergency in years, the BBC’s live coverage carried a line about its cyber correspondent, Joe Tidy. He said he hadn’t known PHP existed until the morning before and called PHP one of those things...

Tall poppy syndrome is an old problem with an ugly modern habit. It describes what happens when someone stands out, achieves something, or simply says something worth hearing, and the response is not well received. It is criticism, exclusion, or a quiet campaign to...

Intent, Impact and the Tone Underneath the Words A thought occurred to one of our Ambassadors while reading the Glossary of Terms page, particularly the entry on intent versus impact. It is one of the most useful ideas on the site, and it goes further than most of us...

Often the challenging we do happens in public. It plays out on LinkedIn, in comment threads and in the group chats where a lot of people are watching and quietly forming a view. That raises the stakes. A pile on does real harm, and a good point made badly can still...

Most of us have watched something happen at work that did not sit right and said nothing. A comment that went too far. Someone humiliated in a meeting. A pattern of one person being talked over. Speaking up feels risky, and staying silent feels safer in the moment....

by Lisa Ventura MBE FCIIS, Founder of Cyber Kindness If you are new to cyber security, there are a few things I wish someone had told me at the start. Consider this the letter I did not get. You will not know everything, and you never will. The field is enormous and...