Leadership

The cost of resetting a password

If someone asked you how much the cost of a task is, I bet you would struggle to given them an accurate response, the default position of most people is to underestimate a cost of doing something (but estimation science show’s us that it tends to vary based on role e.g. project managers are risk averse, engineers think they can solve things faster than they can and executives often just want it to be cheaper for the sake of it being cheaper – Parkinsons Squeeze I think that is called)

Years ago I stared looking at total cost of ownership (TCO) and Return on Investment modelling (I mean a lot of years ago….) and I’ve created a range of models for organisations for:

  • Sales Estimation
  • Business Cases
  • Budget Planning
  • Project Planning
  • System Optimisation Analysis
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Threat Intel

Shiny Hunters / Scattered Spider Alleged Victims

Shiny Hunters/Scattered spider have published a leaked download site (DLS)/extortion site etc.
This is a fast publish with content mainly generated using an LLM (GROK). This appears to relate to victims who have been victims of social engineering, it does not appear to be related to the Salesforce, SalesLoft Drift breach: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=005134951&type=1

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