16 August 2018 / JC's Column / JC Gaillard

Quite a lot will now go down to the regulator’s appetite   So … May 25th came and went, quickly followed by the football world cup and a heatwave which wrecked most of Europe and many other parts of the world … Around the GDPR, bureaucracy claimed… Read more »

2 August 2018 / Leadership Development, Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard

Constant firefighting downgrades the role and the CISO must fight to avoid its gravitational pull With regards to many other C-level roles, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) position is a fairly recent creation for many organisations. Altho… Read more »

19 July 2018 / Architecture and Design, Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard

Spectacular recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are feeding many fantasies in the world of cybersecurity. Almost everything can be heard on the topic, from the looming obsolescence of even the best defence solutions to an open war betwe… Read more »

5 July 2018 / Company Information / Corix Partners

Corix Partners is active at a number of levels in the wider cyber security community in the UK and abroad. This is a summary of the activities which we have undertaken during Q2 2018.     JC Gaillard, MD & Founder, Corix Partners, attende… Read more »

21 June 2018 / JC's Column / JC Gaillard

The traditional role of the CISO is changing. It is being challenged by emerging new regulations such as GDPR, which are impacting all industry sectors, and the arrival on the scene of the new role of the DPO in many firms. It is being marginalised by… Read more »

7 June 2018 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard

Driving security transformation is becoming key; not justifying investments The age-long debate around security metrics and dashboards seems very much alive within the CISO community. But it is often positioned in an outdated historical perspective. Fo… Read more »

24 May 2018 / JC's Column / JC Gaillard

Is the CISO an outdated concept? And what to do about it? The last SASIG meeting in London on 8th May 2018 examined the role and career of the CISO. It is hard to walk out of an event like this one not feeling that a number of things are seriously goin… Read more »

10 May 2018 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard

The right reporting line is the one that works. Period. Why are so many organisations and security professionals still worried about the reporting line of the CISO? This is one of the oldest and most consistent debate agitating the security industry, a… Read more »

26 April 2018 / JC's Column / JC Gaillard

Nothing will change until the profile of the CISO is raised and they start to see their role over the mid to long-term Surveys suggest that the average tenure in a CISO position is around 2 years. Although it seems to vary depending on industry sectors… Read more »

5 April 2018 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard

The GDPR is not just about Security, but it has been dominating the life of many CISOs since last year. Notoriously, the regulation contains only a few actual references to data security. Article 32 mentions the need to have “appropriate” technical and… Read more »