24 October 2019 / JC's Column / JC Gaillard
It doesn’t make sense to oppose maturity & risk-based approaches to cyber security This interesting piece from McKinsey made me think and deserves some comments: “The risk-based approach to cybersecurity” (Jim Boehm, Nick Curcio, Peter Merrath, Luc… Read more »
10 October 2019 / Leadership Development / JC Gaillard
5 key points to drive culture change around cyber security Culture and governance are key to drive change around cyber security behaviours, but too many awareness programmes focus simply on superficial technical gimmicks. Let’s start by deconstructing… Read more »
26 September 2019 / Cyber Security Community / 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 Q3 2019. JC Gaillard, MD & Founder, Corix Partners, was listed at… Read more »
12 September 2019 / Leadership Development / JC Gaillard
A decade of firefighting has taken its toll on the CISO profession The role of the CISO is changing. If that was ever the case, it can no longer be seen JUST as a technical role. In some industries, it is being challenged by the world-wide tightening o… Read more »
22 August 2019 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
One Board member must be in charge and their pay package must ride on it In 2015, in the wake of the TalkTalk data breach which made a massive impact in the UK media and even got politicians involved, we first explored the key questions the Board shoul… Read more »
1 August 2019 / JC's Column / JC Gaillard
Public authorities must step up their game to help SMBs Ransomware has been on the radar with cyber security professionals for a number of years. At Corix Partners, we wrote about it for the first time 3 years ago in the summer of 2016 following a conf… Read more »
18 July 2019 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
The Tactical Trap Many CISOs struggle to look beyond day-to-day firefighting and get trapped in tactical games. We highlighted this last year in the context of our “100 Days” series and it is one of the major factors preventing organisations from devel… Read more »
4 July 2019 / Cyber Security Community / 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 2019. Corix Partners is delighted to announce that since 9th April… Read more »
20 June 2019 / JC's Column / JC Gaillard
Security Organizations must evolve. The CISO cannot be credible on all fronts A recent comment I read on Linkedin made me think. It was in response to a post on zero-day vulnerabilities and software patching, and roughly translated from the French, it… Read more »
6 June 2019 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Bake it in from the start: “Moving fast and breaking things” will become a thing of the past as customers and investors take security and privacy more and more seriously It seems that security is still – at best – an afterthought for most start-ups as… Read more »