"I told you so!"
I used to be head of cyber security for a store that sells peanuts. Well, it wasn't peanuts, but for the sake of this story and several confidentiality agreements I've signed over the years, let's go with that. Every month or so, all of the cyber security peeps from the peanut stores all around the country would get together and share stories. It was cathartic in a way: one would say "last month I lost nearly half a million dollars in peanut sales to cyber fraud!" and all would commiserate and offer to buy drinks at the pub that evening for the unfortunate soul who'd lost the most. Importantly though, we'd also share intelligence. We never discussed what sort of peanuts we each sold, or what new and amazing flavours our store would be introducing in the coming months, but we would certainly share details about the types of cyber fraud we'd observed in our stores recently. This elevated the cyber security resilience of all peanut stores , without giv...