Stuck on Repeat: The Cybersecurity Clichés Keeping the Industry in the Dark
Three More Cybersecurity Clichés That Need Challenging In one of my last article, I challenged three deeply entrenched cybersecurity clichés that, in my opinion, make the…
Launching “The First 100 Days of the New CISO: A Leadership Guide to Lasting Impact”
A blueprint for the next decade of cybersecurity leadership Buy It Here on Amazon When I first began advising CIOs and other C-level executives in…
Framing the Role of the Board around Cybersecurity is No Longer about Risk
Business protection from cyber threats must be rooted in the reality of the world we live in The role of the Board with regards to…
The 3 Traits of Successful Cyber Security Leaders
The cyber security transformative urgency in many firms forces to look beyond traditional technology profiles Cyber security has risen to prominence on the agenda…
Time to Look at the Role of the CISO Differently
What is now required is political acumen, managerial experience, and personal gravitas, more than raw technology skills. In spite of being widely used, the role…
Three Axes of Discussion to Build up a Cyber Security Agenda at Board Level
Revisiting the questions the Board should ask (one more time…) This piece in the HBR caught my attention (“7 Pressing Cybersecurity Questions Boards Need to…
Time to Bring the Cyber Security Technical Debt under Control
Stop buying more tech for the sake of it and start focusing on the decluttering of your cyber security landscape. For the past two decades,…
Cyber Security: The Message that Never makes it up to the Board
In most organisations, it has never been “owned” as such at Board level in spite of the tidal wave of cyber attacks which have rocked most industr…
The Way Forward with Cyber Security Target Operating Models
“Process and People first, THEN Technology” will always be at the heart of the winning formula here Many large organisations across all industries face the…
Cyber Security: The Constant Confusion Between Tool and Process
There are real issues in the security operations space but buying more tools won’t help This 2021 survey from TrendMicro (“Security Operations on the Backfoot:…
Security That Empowers the Business: The Formula 1 Analogy
“We’re always seen as the ‘Department of No’”, I heard a CISO say at a roundtable discussion where security leaders talked about the current climate…
Cyber Security can be a Pillar of any Corporate Post-Pandemic Agenda
But are the CISOs ready for it? A comment left on one of my articles made me think: How can cyber security leaders drive a…