Security & Threat Intelligence · 25.07.2026, 15:29 UTC
Close Encounters of the Human Kind
| Schweregrad | info |
|---|---|
| Kategorie | Security & Threat Intelligence |
| Quelle | Cisco Talos ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 25.07.2026 UTC |
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Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter. I love a Spielberg summer. His ability to imbue a sense of wonder, awe, curiosity, and connection means he’s in a league of his own. Granted, I haven’t felt that from him in a while, but when he hits? Oof. I feel like I need somebody to reach across and take off my sunglasses. So, Disclosure Day then. A group of friends and I visited a thankfully packed-out cinema at the weekend to bear witness to Spielberg’s latest dalliance with extra-terrestrial beings. Thar be no spoilers here, but I do want to touch on one of the film’s central themes: the idea that a group of people (let’s call them “the government”) believes they can predict how humanity will react to world-changing information based on historical data patterns. We often assume that information influences behaviour. Surely, if people have the right information, they'll make the right decision? If people understand the risk, they'll act. However, the older I get, the less convinced I am that human beings are rational creatures. Organisations know they should patch. People know they should use MFA. Leaders know they should practice an incident before it happens for real. And yet. Life is messy. Life, uh, finds a way. Most people aren't making decisions in a vacuum. They need to contend with limited budgets, workloads, competing business priorities, and a hundred other things demanding their attention. "Knowing" what they should do is the easy part. The hard part is finding the time, resources, urgency, and collective will to actually do it. As one of my …