1 June 2017 / Guest Blog / Vincent Viers
It only takes a healthy dose of paranoia to understand that our privacy is under constant attack. It’s no secret that our personal data is routinely being monitored by the likes of Facebook or the Government. And your refrigerator might just be about t… Read more »
18 May 2017 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
12 months to go and nowhere to hide as potential fines could reach tens of millions for large firms by next year Many IT departments in large firms are increasingly concerned with business units contracting directly with service providers, as opposed t… Read more »
4 May 2017 / Leadership Development, Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Corporate culture and the profile of the CISO are key, over and above any arbitrary organisational consideration It is astonishing to see the amount of interest still surrounding the reporting line of the CISO. The fact that it is still a topic of seri… Read more »
20 April 2017 / JC's Column / JC Gaillard
A “people” perspective on GRC models It is no big secret that the “Three Lines of Defence” model underpinning many GRC practices in large firms is poorly understood and poorly applied at grass-root levels. Anecdotal evidence we observe in the field eve… Read more »
6 April 2017 / 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 Q1 2017. JC Gaillard, MD & Founder, Corix Partners,… Read more »
30 March 2017 / Leadership Development, Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Various clichés bouncing about on social media are simplistic and must be challenged Over the past 6 months, social media and the Internet have been inundated with GDPR-related material. Law firms, consultancies – large and small – and even tech firms… Read more »
16 March 2017 / Architecture and Design / JC Gaillard
In a previous article, we pointed out how millennials – whose digital-nativeness is often praised by employers – are actually endowed with less cybersecurity-savviness than their more senior co-workers. A key consequence of this is their failure to dis… Read more »
2 March 2017 / JC's Column / JC Gaillard
The Cyber Security Industry needs more talent; but at which level and to do what? Here is a theme that has cyber security experts gripped: There is an enormous problem of skills across the cyber security industry. Not enough professionals. Hundreds of… Read more »
16 February 2017 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Opaque Terms of Use around Data are making things worse Recent years have been marked by seemingly never ending scandals about surveillance programs aimed at gathering data about private citizens unbeknownst to them — the most iconic example of which w… Read more »
2 February 2017 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
The keys to a successful second line of defence There are many risk management methodologies in existence but it is not uncommon to come across large firms still following today simplistic, dysfunctional or flawed practices, in particular around operat… Read more »