Cybersecurity & Risk
Threats, best practices, security investments and risk management for Algerian organizations.
Cybersecurity & Risk
The Phishing-as-a-Service Economy: How $50 Buys a Cyberattack in 2026
Cybercrime Has a Customer Success Team In 2015, launching a phishing campaign required technical skill. You needed to register a convincing domain, build a credential-harvesting web page, configure an email server, craft a convincing lure, and figure out how to receive and use
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OT/ICS Security: Hacking Power Grids and Water Systems in 2026
The Infrastructure Nobody Thinks About Until It Fails On a February morning in 2021, operators at the water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Florida, observed the remote cursor on a control screen moving on its own — adjusting the concentration of sodium hydroxide (lye) in the
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The Insider Threat Crisis: Why Your Biggest Risk Is Already Inside
The Call Is Coming from Inside the Building While organizations pour billions into firewalls, endpoint detection, and zero-trust perimeters, their most dangerous adversary already has a badge, a laptop, and access to the crown jewels. Insider threats — security incidents
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Open Source Security: Supply Chain Attacks and the Growing Crisis
Introduction In March 2024, a Microsoft engineer named Andres Freund was investigating unexplained CPU usage on a Debian Linux server when he stumbled upon one of the most sophisticated software supply chain attacks ever discovered. A malicious contributor who had spent two
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Zero Trust Is No Longer Optional: The Enterprise Security Architecture for 2026
Introduction "Never trust, always verify." The zero trust security model, articulated by Forrester analyst John Kindervag in 2010, spent a decade as a security philosophy more discussed than deployed. The 2020 SolarWinds attack — where trusted network access and trusted
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AI-Powered Cyberattacks: Deepfakes, Social Engineering, and the New Threat Landscape
Introduction For decades, the human element has been the weakest link in cybersecurity. Phishing emails trick employees into revealing passwords.
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The Quantum Clock Is Ticking: Why Every Organization Must Act on Post-Quantum
Introduction There is a countdown happening that most organizations are not tracking. Quantum computers capable of breaking today's widely-used encryption algorithms — RSA, Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman, Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm — are not a certainty, but
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Ransomware Every 19 Seconds: The State of the Global Ransomware Crisis
Introduction By Q3 2025, a ransomware attack was occurring somewhere in the world approximately every 19 seconds. Not every 19 minutes.
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Salt Typhoon: The New Era of State-Sponsored Cyber Warfare
Introduction In late 2024, American officials made a stunning disclosure: Chinese government-linked hackers had infiltrated at least nine major US telecommunications companies — including Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Lumen, Spectrum, and others — and had maintained persistent
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Digital Sovereignty and Cybersecurity: How Algeria Is Building an Independent Cyber
Digital sovereignty — the principle that a nation should control its own digital infrastructure, data, and technology destiny — has become one of the defining policy preoccupations of our era. The European Union is building GAIA-X to reduce dependence on American cloud providers.
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Cybersecurity Compliance for Algerian Startups: A Practical Checklist for 2026
For Algerian startups, cybersecurity compliance can feel like a problem for later — something to worry about when you have paying customers, a real product, and enough runway to think beyond next month's burn rate. This instinct is understandable and almost always wrong.
