Pegasus is a powerful and controversial spyware developed by the Israeli cyber-intelligence company NSO Group. It has become a symbol of the growing power and secrecy behind state-sponsored surveillance. This blog post explains what Pegasus is, how it works, and the impact it has had on cybersecurity and privacy around the world.
The ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia has not only reshaped global geopolitics but has also deeply affected the cybersecurity landscape. From the first days of conflict in 2014, and especially since the full-scale invasion in 2022, cyber operations have become a central feature of the war. These operations have targeted critical infrastructure, governments, private businesses, and civil society across Ukraine, Russia, and far beyond.
I have been doing this a while now, security, infrastructure, cloud, almost the whole IT-world.
Some days I feel sharp and useful. Other days... I am just tired.
In the spring of 2025, global conflicts and power struggles are redrawing the map of cyberspace. Cybersecurity has escalated into a high-level strategic concern as geopolitical tensions that flare from Washington and Moscow to Sanaa, Beijing and Brussels. Political upheaval in the United States, a drawn-out war in Europe, regional instability in the Middle East, and showdowns in East Asia all contribute to a volatile environment. For CIOs, CISOs, CEOs and the wider security community, this means navigating a new reality in which global crises and digital threats are inextricably linked.