Publication note: This article was written many months ago but was only published today, following a very valuable meeting. The chapter about Moldova was written today. Why modern organisations cannot adequately protect what they do not fully understand Cybersecurity has traditionally been presented as a problem of protection. Organisations deploy firewalls, identity platforms, endpoint protection, vulnerability scanners, cloud-security products, monitoring systems, configuration databases, ticketing platforms, and many other specialised tools. Each one protects or observes a particular part of the environment. Despite this investment, a fundamental problem remains unresolved: Most organisations do not possess a continuously maintained and trustworthy model of what their digital environment actually is, how its components depend on one another, and what would happen if something changed, failed, or were compromised. They possess inventories, alerts, logs, dashboards, diagrams, ...
Monday, 24 August 2026 There are moments when life does not change dramatically from one day to the next, but something inside you changes because a period of uncertainty has finally come to an end. Today feels like one of those moments. After months of paperwork, questions, documents, appointments, waiting, and uncertainty, my residency in Moldova has finally been approved . It is difficult to explain how important that feels. Not because a residence permit magically changes everyday life. Tomorrow there will still be bills to pay, things to organise, projects to work on, problems to solve, and an endless list of things that need my attention. But one fundamental question has finally disappeared: Can I actually build my life here? The answer is now yes. From Moving to Actually Living When we decided to move to Moldova, I knew that it would involve a period of transition. Moving from one country to another is never simply a matter of putting your belongings into a car, driving across E...