9 January 2020 / JC's Column / JC Gaillard

The security industry needs to pivot away from “talking about things” onto “getting things done” The World Economic Forum’s “Cyber Security Guide for Leaders in Today’s Digital World” (WEF – October 2019) makes interesting reading, but frankly does it… Read more »

12 December 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 Q4 2019.   JC Gaillard, MD & Founder, Corix Partners, officially rel… Read more »

28 November 2019 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard

Outsourcing something simply because you don’t understand it is rarely a good start. Faced by constant reports of cyber-attacks in the media, most small and medium-size organisations have woken up to the reality of cyber threats over the past few years… Read more »

7 November 2019 / Company Information / Corix Partners

The Security industry talks a lot about what could go wrong … but not so much about how to improve things Research released by The Security Transformation Research Foundation, ahead of the Cyber Security Leadership Summit in Berlin on 12-14 November 20… Read more »

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 »