Rik Ferguson
@rikferguson.com
Immigrant. VP Security Intelligence @Forescout, Co-founder @RespectInSec. Board @vaultree, Cybersecurity Futurist, Researcher, Award-winning writer/producer. He/Him. Pussy in bio.
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Rik Ferguson
@rikferguson.com
· Nov 8
Reposting this tweet from Oct 2017, so I can pin it here too.
Public note: If you ask me to sit on any public panel I will decline if there are no women on the panel. I can’t do much but I can do this.
Public note: If you ask me to sit on any public panel I will decline if there are no women on the panel. I can’t do much but I can do this.
Would you buy it? Or at least pick it up and read the blurb? I’d record the audiobook myself :)
July 24, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Would you buy it? Or at least pick it up and read the blurb? I’d record the audiobook myself :)
Is it just me, or has the #HuggingFace incident ended up giving OpenAI exactly the kind of “our models are terrifyingly capable” narrative that Anthropic has been owning recently?
July 24, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Is it just me, or has the #HuggingFace incident ended up giving OpenAI exactly the kind of “our models are terrifyingly capable” narrative that Anthropic has been owning recently?
So, it’s a Bin versus a Has-bin…
July 8, 2026 at 9:53 PM
So, it’s a Bin versus a Has-bin…
Why? Why would we do this? Outsourcing the most precious moments in parenting? Handing off the love, trust and emotional bedrock of childhood to tech? So we can do more what? Work? TV? TikTok? Doomscrolling? Anyone who uses this needs their head examined.
“The feature uses a combination of bedtime stories, relaxing sounds, and guided meditations along with scheduling and customization options accessible only to adults.”
Amazon’s Echo speakers can now help kids wind down and fall asleep
Amazon wants to make bedtime less of a struggle.
www.theverge.com
June 11, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Why? Why would we do this? Outsourcing the most precious moments in parenting? Handing off the love, trust and emotional bedrock of childhood to tech? So we can do more what? Work? TV? TikTok? Doomscrolling? Anyone who uses this needs their head examined.
Love you @shadowserver.bsky.social
Heads up! New report going out daily: the Initial Access Broker Report shadowserver.org/what-we-do/n... on compromised hosts likely under control of IABs
Data thanks to collaboration with anonymous researchers &
SpyCloud - thank you!
Check your free daily reports from us!
Data thanks to collaboration with anonymous researchers &
SpyCloud - thank you!
Check your free daily reports from us!
June 11, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Love you @shadowserver.bsky.social
This idea started at a panel in 2017. Today it’s a doctrine.
Meet Assume Autonomy: a new approach to cybersecurity for the autonomous era. Operationalised in a way Assume Breach never was.
Proud of this one.
Meet Assume Autonomy: a new approach to cybersecurity for the autonomous era. Operationalised in a way Assume Breach never was.
Proud of this one.
Assume Autonomy Whitepaper
Assume Autonomy is Forescout's security governance and architecture doctrine for defending against AI attacks and other autonomous systems.
forescout.com
June 3, 2026 at 9:09 PM
This idea started at a panel in 2017. Today it’s a doctrine.
Meet Assume Autonomy: a new approach to cybersecurity for the autonomous era. Operationalised in a way Assume Breach never was.
Proud of this one.
Meet Assume Autonomy: a new approach to cybersecurity for the autonomous era. Operationalised in a way Assume Breach never was.
Proud of this one.
A project I had never envisaged is becoming real.
4 chapters into my memoir. 101 book-sized pages, & I’m still only 11. Summer holidays have ended, when I wake up, it’ll be day 1 at comp.
Amazed I’ve found so many stories. It’s an incredible exercise I feel like I am really capturing the 70s/80s.
4 chapters into my memoir. 101 book-sized pages, & I’m still only 11. Summer holidays have ended, when I wake up, it’ll be day 1 at comp.
Amazed I’ve found so many stories. It’s an incredible exercise I feel like I am really capturing the 70s/80s.
May 14, 2026 at 9:47 PM
A project I had never envisaged is becoming real.
4 chapters into my memoir. 101 book-sized pages, & I’m still only 11. Summer holidays have ended, when I wake up, it’ll be day 1 at comp.
Amazed I’ve found so many stories. It’s an incredible exercise I feel like I am really capturing the 70s/80s.
4 chapters into my memoir. 101 book-sized pages, & I’m still only 11. Summer holidays have ended, when I wake up, it’ll be day 1 at comp.
Amazed I’ve found so many stories. It’s an incredible exercise I feel like I am really capturing the 70s/80s.
Scotland once again appearing to demonstrate they are the only home nation without a giant population of Brexiteering, bigoted, brainwashed.
Lang may yer lum reek
Lang may yer lum reek
May 8, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Scotland once again appearing to demonstrate they are the only home nation without a giant population of Brexiteering, bigoted, brainwashed.
Lang may yer lum reek
Lang may yer lum reek
Reposted by Rik Ferguson
Lots of biased media reporting in favour of reform as usual today
Reform did, sadly, win a lot of council seats BUT they do not control those councils. In many regions there is now no overall majority on a council but it is not the case that Reform have control.
Reform did, sadly, win a lot of council seats BUT they do not control those councils. In many regions there is now no overall majority on a council but it is not the case that Reform have control.
May 8, 2026 at 5:45 AM
Lots of biased media reporting in favour of reform as usual today
Reform did, sadly, win a lot of council seats BUT they do not control those councils. In many regions there is now no overall majority on a council but it is not the case that Reform have control.
Reform did, sadly, win a lot of council seats BUT they do not control those councils. In many regions there is now no overall majority on a council but it is not the case that Reform have control.
I can’t take anyone seriously in politics when insists on calling us ‘Briddish’
May 8, 2026 at 7:43 AM
I can’t take anyone seriously in politics when insists on calling us ‘Briddish’
I spoke on a panel at a Gigamon event in the National Portrait Gallery today. This was on the screen behind me. Apparently I have missed my era.
April 23, 2026 at 11:38 PM
I spoke on a panel at a Gigamon event in the National Portrait Gallery today. This was on the screen behind me. Apparently I have missed my era.
Not only will I absolutely be riding this incredible train to the mountains, but at the beginning of the video you get some glimpses of my beautiful, secret, incomparable, home city of Warszawa. If you have never been, do yourself a favour this summer!
New Video:
We are riding Poland's First "Unhurried" Train - IC Nieśpieszny" - from Warsaw to Zakopane.
link to full video:
youtu.be/LqfYds71Qqc
We are riding Poland's First "Unhurried" Train - IC Nieśpieszny" - from Warsaw to Zakopane.
link to full video:
youtu.be/LqfYds71Qqc
Riding Poland's First "Unhurried" Train | "Nieśpieszny" Warsaw to Zakopane
YouTube video by doc7austin’s DreamlinerCentral
youtu.be
April 21, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Not only will I absolutely be riding this incredible train to the mountains, but at the beginning of the video you get some glimpses of my beautiful, secret, incomparable, home city of Warszawa. If you have never been, do yourself a favour this summer!
TIL I once stripped off during a gig at Uni. I have no memory of this at all.
April 19, 2026 at 8:01 PM
TIL I once stripped off during a gig at Uni. I have no memory of this at all.
New research: a year ago 55% of AI models failed basic vulnerability research and 93% failed exploit development. Today, all tested models complete VR, half generate working exploits autonomously, and the most capable can chain vulnerabilities into multi-stage compromises without complex prompting.
AI Security Testing: Agents Leap From Assistants to Autonomous Hackers
AI is finding bugs humans missed for decades. Forescout's new AI security research reveals the urgent new reality of vulnerability discovery.
www.forescout.com
April 14, 2026 at 12:12 PM
New research: a year ago 55% of AI models failed basic vulnerability research and 93% failed exploit development. Today, all tested models complete VR, half generate working exploits autonomously, and the most capable can chain vulnerabilities into multi-stage compromises without complex prompting.
10 years ago, I discovered the five reasons why Poland is actually Middle Earth:
1. They address each other as "Lord" or "Lady".
2. They pay for things with "Golds"
3. "Second breakfast" is a real meal.
4. There's a place called The Crooked Forest.
5. Sauron holds power to the east.
1. They address each other as "Lord" or "Lady".
2. They pay for things with "Golds"
3. "Second breakfast" is a real meal.
4. There's a place called The Crooked Forest.
5. Sauron holds power to the east.
April 14, 2026 at 8:48 AM
10 years ago, I discovered the five reasons why Poland is actually Middle Earth:
1. They address each other as "Lord" or "Lady".
2. They pay for things with "Golds"
3. "Second breakfast" is a real meal.
4. There's a place called The Crooked Forest.
5. Sauron holds power to the east.
1. They address each other as "Lord" or "Lady".
2. They pay for things with "Golds"
3. "Second breakfast" is a real meal.
4. There's a place called The Crooked Forest.
5. Sauron holds power to the east.
That’s no moon!
I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.
Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.
ht @astrokatie.com
Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.
ht @astrokatie.com
April 7, 2026 at 9:11 AM
That’s no moon!
Looks like a significant outage issue with Claude. Downdetector agrees.
March 25, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Looks like a significant outage issue with Claude. Downdetector agrees.
I have finally pulled my finger out and started writing. Not the book I was planning (yet) but training
I am already 27 pages into my autobiography. For a prospective audience of a whopping 6 or 7 people
I’m in 1978 & filling in plenty of gaps before I move on. I will reach 1996, where it will end
I am already 27 pages into my autobiography. For a prospective audience of a whopping 6 or 7 people
I’m in 1978 & filling in plenty of gaps before I move on. I will reach 1996, where it will end
March 13, 2026 at 2:25 PM
I have finally pulled my finger out and started writing. Not the book I was planning (yet) but training
I am already 27 pages into my autobiography. For a prospective audience of a whopping 6 or 7 people
I’m in 1978 & filling in plenty of gaps before I move on. I will reach 1996, where it will end
I am already 27 pages into my autobiography. For a prospective audience of a whopping 6 or 7 people
I’m in 1978 & filling in plenty of gaps before I move on. I will reach 1996, where it will end
If you are a fan of female-fronted indie/rock, I’d really recommend giving @spaceacreband.bsky.social a listen.
Discovered them today, fell in love, added/downloaded everything.
music.apple.com/gb/artist/sp...
Discovered them today, fell in love, added/downloaded everything.
music.apple.com/gb/artist/sp...
SpaceAcre on Apple Music
Listen to music by SpaceAcre on Apple Music.
music.apple.com
March 11, 2026 at 9:52 PM
If you are a fan of female-fronted indie/rock, I’d really recommend giving @spaceacreband.bsky.social a listen.
Discovered them today, fell in love, added/downloaded everything.
music.apple.com/gb/artist/sp...
Discovered them today, fell in love, added/downloaded everything.
music.apple.com/gb/artist/sp...
TIL: I learned where babies come from by watching a sheep give birth, at the age of 6.
March 11, 2026 at 8:23 PM
TIL: I learned where babies come from by watching a sheep give birth, at the age of 6.
Let me be clear: I understand very well that dress matters in specific occasions and cultures, but dress codes are often just status checks in disguise. If you need the uniform to recognise the professional, it was never about professionalism.
This is How I Do Business | Rik Ferguson
Let me be clear: I understand very well that dress matters in specific occasions and cultures, but dress codes are often just status checks in disguise. If you need the uniform to recognise the profes...
www.linkedin.com
March 2, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Let me be clear: I understand very well that dress matters in specific occasions and cultures, but dress codes are often just status checks in disguise. If you need the uniform to recognise the professional, it was never about professionalism.
People want the EU to “unravel” for the same reason people try to get alcoholics to have “just one”.
They can’t stand how others’ success throws their own failure into relief.
They can’t stand how others’ success throws their own failure into relief.
The EU is in peril. Can it survive the Trump years, rising nationalism at home and the weight of its own poor decision-making?
This Is What an Unraveling European Union Looks Like
There’s no single button to switch off decades of monetary and political union. But Trump, nationalism and sheer inertia pose genuine dangers.
bloom.bg
February 27, 2026 at 10:40 PM
People want the EU to “unravel” for the same reason people try to get alcoholics to have “just one”.
They can’t stand how others’ success throws their own failure into relief.
They can’t stand how others’ success throws their own failure into relief.
I just wrote 4000 words about a day in 1989, and I am really proud of it.
Not sure when I can share it with you but it starts like this.
Not sure when I can share it with you but it starts like this.
February 27, 2026 at 10:37 PM
I just wrote 4000 words about a day in 1989, and I am really proud of it.
Not sure when I can share it with you but it starts like this.
Not sure when I can share it with you but it starts like this.