Ciaran Martin

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1.7K

Account age

3 yrs

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“In the end, the Ten Commandments are nothing more than a non-binding, voluntary code of practice. But as a set of guidelines as to how to conduct yourself, they’ve proved pretty effective and enduring. So we shouldn’t always belittle voluntary non-binding efforts to establish norms in cyberspace”
Thus spoke David Koh, head of the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA), whom I had the privilege

8 views “In the end, the Ten Commandments are nothing more than a non-binding, voluntary code of practice. But as a set of guidelines as to how to conduct yourself, they’ve proved pretty effective and enduring. So we shouldn’t always belittle voluntary non-binding efforts to establish norms in cyberspace” Thus spoke David Koh, head of the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA), whom I had the privilege

📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

0.4%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: I don’t have a strong view on the culture war over working from · 15 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.18 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

19×

Follows 90 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

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🔥 Top post I don’t have a strong view on the culture war over working from home. I do however think that the stuff being pushed (been asked about it by several journalists) that wfh played a role in the M&S cyber attack & that wfh orgs are more vulnerable than others is unsupported by any… ★ 15

Sorry not to have been on here much lately. Inspired by reading the responses to @GossiTheDog ’s request for feedback as to whether or not defenders in the trenches are using AI, I thought I’d share a new post from my hitherto moribund sub… ★ 6 Another new episode of the SANS Institute Cyber Leaders podcast! This one has Ross McKercher of Sophos talk to me and James Lyne about one of the most audacious private sector counter cyber operations of all time, against a Chinese threa… ★ 7 This looks like a significantly richer dataset than that at issue with Marks and Spencer and the Coop https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgr5g4pv2l0o ★ 9

“In the end, the Ten Commandments are nothing more than a non-binding, voluntary code of practice. But as a set of guidelines as to how to conduct yourself, they’ve proved pretty effective and enduring. So we shouldn’t always belittle volu… ★ 8 Completely missed that last week France - the last holdout - has started publicly attributing cyber attacks https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/country-files/russia/news/2025/article/russia-attribution-of-cyber-attacks-on-france-to-the-russ… ★ 5 Only two days till I welcome the great David Koh to Oxford! Here’s how to sign up, if you want to come in person or remotely https://go.bsky.app/redirect?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bsg.ox.ac.uk%2Fevents%2Fsingapores-cybersecurity-playbook ★ 1 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002bvd2 The UK’s hackashopathon rumbles on. I was on BBC Breakfast TV trying to explain helpdesk social engineering to gain access to privileged user accounts at about 31 minutes and 40 seconds in ★ 7 UK NCSC advice on advanced encryption gets a positive review from Bruce Schneier https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/05/ncsc-guidance-on-advanced-cryptography.html ★ 14 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4grn878712o ★ 3 My attempt to make sense of the hackashopathon in the UK this week, for BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, can be found just a few seconds before the 1hr50 mark here https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002brpd ★ 5 The Oxford Cyber and Tech Policy Programme is thrilled and honoured to announce our third event! Having had a brilliant kick off from Richard Horne, and then a tour-de-force from @troyhunt, we can now proudly host one of the world’s most i… ★ 1

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

infosec.exchange

A cybersecurity & infosec server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.

On Mastodon since

Nov 2022

Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.

👁️Averages 7 views per post.

📤Posts about 0.2× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

66/100

Good Credibility score

89%

Real Real audience

Low Fake-follower risk

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Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Engagement (~0.4% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
Established account (3+ years old).

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Former/founding head of UK National Cyber Security Centre. Now prof at Oxford University; working with various cyber companies too

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