What Mary, Queen of Scots, can teach today’s cybersec royalty
Mary, Queen of Scots, was a hapless CEO, even by the standards of 1600s Europe. Mother of the first Stuart King of England, James I , she was herself the first Stuart monarch to lose both throne and head. She wasn't the last. The family had issues.
Let's start with the loss of that throne and the role of data forensics. Mary's second husband, the heir apparent to the Earldom of Lennox, was murdered in a chaotic event that implicated the Earl of Bothwell. Bothwell was cleared and immediately married Mary, a poor move in retrospect given it caused a rebellion, her imprisonment, and her abdication. She fled south to England and asked her cousin Queen Elizabeth for help.
When in doubt, hold an inquiry: did Mary have a part in the murder of Darnley? This question swiftly resolved into the authenticity of a cache of data, the. Apparently in Mary's handwriting and apparently linking her and Bothwell in love and plotting. Investigators said they were probably genuine, with modern opinion split but tending towards a mix of genuine, altered and fake.
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