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Rik Ferguson

@rikferguson.com
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Immigrant. VP Security Intelligence @Forescout, Co-founder @RespectInSec. Board @vaultree, Cybersecurity Futurist, Researcher, Award-winning writer/producer. He/Him. Pussy in bio. Substack - Ferguson.ink Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 25/07/2026
It’s the story of Elizabeth’s life. One day in 1883, her husband William came home and murdered all five of their children. He claimed to be a “happy man”. Elizabeth was my great great grandmother. Without the murders, I wouldn’t be here.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 24/07/2026
Man seeks literary agent!
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 24/07/2026
Would you buy it? Or at least pick it up and read the blurb? I’d record the audiobook myself :)
Potential book cover showing a lone chair beneath a water cistern with a perambulator almost out of shot to the right. The text says “A Happy Man
The Walthamstow Murders and a Century of Silence”. Author, me!
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 24/07/2026
I’m thinking the naan bread. Both are very aerodynamic in their own way, but the naan has more mass. Thrown with sufficient force, like a frisbee I think it could really travel! There’s a quiz show in this I’m sure.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 24/07/2026
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?
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 08/07/2026
How about the Ziggy one in Żoliborz/Marymont?
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 08/07/2026
So, it’s a Bin versus a Has-bin…
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 11/06/2026
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.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 11/06/2026
Love you @shadowserver.bsky.social
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 03/06/2026
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.
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Assume Autonomy Whitepaper
Assume Autonomy is Forescout's security governance and architecture doctrine for defending against AI attacks and other autonomous systems.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 14/05/2026
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.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 13/05/2026
You mean Monty Python?
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 12/05/2026
Both of these two
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 12/05/2026
Both of these two
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 08/05/2026
Honestly, if she wants to stay in those hotels, I’d pay for it. As long as she gets the same pocket money as they do.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 08/05/2026
It is, after all, the Lambeth Walk.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 08/05/2026
Turgid prose espousing viscous opinions.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 08/05/2026
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
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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 08/05/2026
I can’t take anyone seriously in politics when insists on calling us ‘Briddish’
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 25/04/2026
I use that place all the time it’s a dive
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 24/04/2026
You are SO good at this.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 24/04/2026
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.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 24/04/2026
Unless you’re Nordic
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 21/04/2026
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!
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 21/04/2026
Why not make it a site dedicated to exposing info ops and propaganda? From state-sponsored campaigns to astroturfing. A perfect and very necessary use of the name.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 20/04/2026
We can only hope.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 20/04/2026
I was the embodiment of the 80s 😂
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 19/04/2026
TIL I once stripped off during a gig at Uni. I have no memory of this at all.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 18/04/2026
You are awesome. Keep going.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 14/04/2026
To kurwa prawda
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 14/04/2026
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.
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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.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 14/04/2026
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.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 07/04/2026
That’s no moon!
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 25/03/2026
Looks like a significant outage issue with Claude. Downdetector agrees.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 13/03/2026
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
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 11/03/2026
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...
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SpaceAcre on Apple Music
Listen to music by SpaceAcre on Apple Music.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 11/03/2026
Shit. Never thought of that. No idea.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 11/03/2026
Clara gets to go on the £50 that you pull out of the ATM when you’re already hammered.
A Jack Russell Terrier looking ridiculously stupid.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 11/03/2026
TIL: I learned where babies come from by watching a sheep give birth, at the age of 6.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 11/03/2026
That was fun, challenging fun. Thanks for the airport distraction :)
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 02/03/2026
Finally a great use for those pesky humans. youtu.be/zdkBUuWCZg4?...
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⚡️💪Energym⚡️💪
YouTube video by Comptoir IA
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 02/03/2026
But, but, godson of the modfather!
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 02/03/2026
Well Shit! That whole thing was utterly phenomenal. Thank you.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 02/03/2026
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.
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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...
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 28/02/2026
Whereas Khameni Chameleon was, of course, Culture Club.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 27/02/2026
Isn’t this just another way of saying “eat shit and die”?
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 27/02/2026
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.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 27/02/2026
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.
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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 25/02/2026
Melania?
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