$ grep -l "tag:retrospective" writing/
tag: retrospective.
5 pieces tagged retrospective, newest first. The full taxonomy is on the tag index.
2026·05·11
April 2026, in retrospect The worst single month for cyber attacks on record. 105 publicly disclosed ransomware incidents globally. The UK third by volume. Looking back at it with a week's distance, three patterns matter more than the count. retrospective · ransomware · attribution · governance
7 min
2026·04·14
Six years of EmilyAI: what we kept, what we changed, what we should have done sooner Post 20 of the AI series. A longer reflective piece. Eight years on from the first sketch of the system that became EmilyAI, six years on from production deployment, the architectural retrospective the series has been building toward. ai · soc · retrospective · emilyai · series
9 min
2026·01·17
SolarWinds at five Five years on from the disclosure of the SolarWinds Orion compromise, what actually changed in how UK boards think about third-party software risk — and what did not. A practitioner's retrospective on the case study that defined the decade. supply chain · governance · ned · retrospective
8 min
2025·12·09
Year in cyber AI 2025: the agentic year that mostly was not Post 17 of the AI series. The 2025 retrospective. Operator agents arrived but mostly in pilot, the determinism property went mainstream in procurement, the regulators caught up, and constrained agency became the named shape. The honest read going into 2026. ai · retrospective · soc · series
8 min
2025·01·07
Year in cyber AI 2024: what was real, what was not Post 9 of the AI series. The 2024 retrospective. Six security copilots shipped; one major outage reshaped the resilience conversation; reasoning models arrived; agents mostly did not. The honest read going into 2025. ai · retrospective · soc · series
8 min
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