The Most Important Infrastructure Is Human
Hey there, Seven months ago I walked into the first day of the Tehnopol Cyber Accelerator with a vision that had only just crystallised, a team still finding it...
May 4, 2026 · Ben Visser · 6 min read
The Askara Blog
Source Journal
Weekly reflections and personal insights
Why I Track Moon Cycles Alongside Product Cycles
Hey there, I'm writing this from a plane on Wednesday morning, somewhere over the Baltic. Tomorrow evening I deliver the pitch that formally closes our seven-mo...
April 16, 2026 · Ben Visser · 8 min read
Thank God We Didn't Know
Hey there, The meeting with Hanos had already finished by the time the most interesting thought arrived. I was walking the dog, probably half an hour later, tur...
April 9, 2026 · Ben Visser · 4 min read
The Convergence Window
Hey there, There is a particular quality to the weeks just before something becomes real. Not the frantic energy of a deadline, and not yet the satisfaction of...
April 2, 2026 · Ben Visser · 5 min read
Spring Equinox Review - When Private Work Becomes Public
Hey there, We're at the spring equinox, which means it's time to do what I always try to do at these seasonal thresholds: step back from the week-to-week rhythm...
March 26, 2026 · Ben Visser · 4 min read
Articles
In-depth articles and technical writing
The Last Attack Surface
There is a bug in OpenBSD that sat undetected for 27 years. It could remotely crash any server running the software. A few weeks ago, an AI found it. The same A...
April 8, 2026 · Ben Visser · 5 min read
The Compliance Speed Trap
I wrote something a few weeks ago that I haven't been able to shake. When the whole architecture of compliance is optimised for producing evidence rather than p...
March 25, 2026 · Ben Visser · 5 min read
The Attack Surface Nobody Models
Ask most security teams where their biggest risk lives and they'll tell you the same thing: people. Phishing. Misconfiguration. The department that keeps workin...
March 18, 2026 · Ben Visser · 5 min read
The Training That Nobody Remembers
Someone at a client's company left sensitive contracts on his laptop hard drive, then sent it off for repair. Unencrypted. The kind of thing that makes you winc...
March 4, 2026 · Ben Visser · 8 min read
Anatomy Without Physiology: Why Your Controls Don't Explain Your Risk
Yesterday I got on a call with someone I'd connected with on LinkedIn. We'd been exchanging messages about risk quantification and AI, the kind of conversation...
February 25, 2026 · Ben Visser · 7 min read