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The CISO of one: cybersecurity in the rest of the economy
Forty million customers. £600m through the apps. Half the website traffic is teen hackers. The Nando's CISO has no direct reports. The board paper has…
May 25
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The player-coach CISO: how AI rewrote the security leader's job in eighteen months
Three senior UK security leaders rated the change in their roles at eight, eight, and nine out of ten. The job description has been rewritten — has…
May 20
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Amer Altaf
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Trust is the growth engine: Vanta's bet that the annual audit is finished
On 7 May 2026 in London, Vanta unveiled an agentic trust platform built around a continuously updated trust graph. The architecture is the right one.
May 18
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Amer Altaf
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Trust the agency, not just the agent: a conversation with Vanta's Khush Kashyap
Episode 06 of Amer Altaf's Studio — Vanta's Senior Director of GRC on agentic governance, the talent pipeline, and the Trust Is the Growth Engine series…
May 14
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The Equipment Chokehold: ASML and the end of the allied exemption
A Dutch lithography company in a small town called Veldhoven has become the single most important instrument of American economic statecraft — and the…
May 7
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Amer Altaf
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DeepSeek V4 and the death of two monopolies
Two monopolies died on 24 April: NVIDIA's grip on launch-day silicon, and the assumption that frontier-like performance was worth the closed-source…
May 6
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Amer Altaf
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The equipment chokehold: ASML, the MATCH Act, and the end of the allied exemption
A Dutch company in Veldhoven has become the most important instrument of American economic statecraft — and the free market that built it has nothing to…
May 1
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Amer Altaf
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April 2026
The Metal Floor: why you cannot procure sovereignty on imported metal
Aluminium pot lines cannot be cold-started. Helium cannot be synthesised. And the EU Chips Act has not yet costed the physical layer underneath it. Part…
Apr 24
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THE METAL FLOOR: why you cannot procure sovereignty on imported metal
Aluminium and helium are the supply chain layer that cannot be digitised. Neither the EU Chips Act nor UK industrial policy has yet costed an honest…
Apr 20
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Amer Altaf
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Four Chokepoints: The Fortnight That Made European Technology Sovereignty Unavoidable
Solo episode — Part 1 of the Four Chokepoints series
Apr 17
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Amer Altaf
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Four chokepoints: inside the fortnight that made European technology sovereignty unavoidable
From the Strait of Hormuz to ASML in Eindhoven, four supply chains failed in fourteen days and the board papers being written this month still treat it…
Apr 15
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Amer Altaf
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Anthropic Built a Model Too Dangerous to Release. Then It Gave It to 12 American Companies.
Yesterday, Anthropic announced Project Glasswing — a cybersecurity coalition built around Claude Mythos Preview, a frontier AI model so proficient at…
Apr 9
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Amer Altaf
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