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Chris Horsley
Chris Horsley
Chief Technology Officer
Prue Owen
Prue Owen
Project Coordinator
February 21, 2024

Cosive’s Tips for Making a Happy and Productive Remote Team

As COVID-19 spreads globally, and employees are asked to work from home for the first time, we’ve seen many people looking for tips on managing a remote team. So, we decided to distill a few lessons we’ve learned at Cosive about how to make a cohesive remote team work well.

Sid Odgers
Sid Odgers
Software Development Lead
Tash Postolovski
Tash Postolovski
Technical Marketing Manager
February 21, 2024

Why Rust is Worth the Struggle

The Rust programming language sent ripples through the programming community when it was first released in 2015, promising the blazing speed of lower-level programming languages without the accompanying sharp edges. Four and a half years on, many programmers still view Rust with a mix of intrigue and trepidation due to its appealing premise and notoriously difficult learning curve. We sat down with one of Cosive’s Senior Developers, Sid Odgers, to talk about why he believes more programmers should take the plunge and learn Rust.

Kayne Naughton
Kayne Naughton
Co-founder & Contract Principal
February 21, 2024

Don't Shoot The Messenger: Security.txt and Collaborating Effectively With Security Researchers

Security.txt is an effort to make life easier for security researchers and incident responders, and to increase the likelihood that the right people will get notified about security issues. The premise of the idea is that organisations add a ‘security.txt’ document under the ‘.well-known’ directory of websites so that people concerned about your organisation’s security know who to contact. Generally, this will be coupled with a ‘security@’ email address which goes directly to the person or team responsible for security. Here are reasons why adding a security.txt file to your website is probably a good idea.

Kayne Naughton
Kayne Naughton
Co-founder & Contract Principal
February 21, 2024

Watching Them Watching You: Opsec for Security Investigators

This post is about how to protect your identity and cover your tracks when conducting security investigations. The recommendations here are part of on operational security (opsec) approach, conducting investigations in a way that denies your targets information about you and your activities and, ultimately, helps to keep you, and others, safe.

Terry MacDonald
Terry MacDonald
Managing Director
February 21, 2024

How to Keep Executives Safe from Malicious Actors with an “Executive Protection Program”

Keeping executives safe can be one of the biggest challenges for CISOs. Without a deep knowledge of security risks, executives may see efforts to keep them safe as onerous rules and restrictions that reduce their efficiency. These rules are often seen as pushing the balance too far in favour of security at the expense of usability and convenience. This can ultimately result in non-compliance which puts the executive, and the organisation, at risk.