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The real enterprise risk is provenance collapse: AI can mix retrieved facts, user assertions and fabricated claims without telling you which is which. I spent twenty minutes last week watching…
For most of the history of software, code was expensive. If somebody had already solved a problem, you reused their solution. You downloaded the library, cloned the repository, installed the…
Most AWS accounts accumulate risk quietly. Nobody sets out to leave a broker with zero alarms, or to run two supposedly multi availability zone brokers in the same availability zone,…
There is an asymmetry sitting in plain sight in every retail lending book, and once you notice it you cannot unsee it. Some of the smallest, shortest and most frequently…
Read more →By Andrew Baker · Group CIO, Capitec Bank SQL Server 2025 quietly closed several of the holes that made Resource Governor unusable as a containment layer, and the one objection…
Every bank of any size runs on funds transfer pricing, and every bank of any size will tell you, if you catch someone honest in a quiet moment, that FTP…
The friction in using Claude Code has never really been the tool itself, it is the ceremony that surrounds starting it, because you have to open a terminal, remember where…
Read more →1. Fraud in context: the fraud to market share ratio Fraud numbers mean very little in isolation, because the bank with the most complaints against it is usually just the…
Why the hardest system I have ever tried to upgrade is myself Over the past three years I have been getting a lot of help with something far more important…
One of the easiest ways for a large organization to become bloated is to confuse an approved budget with an obligation to spend it. The pattern is familiar: someone arrives…
