Posts categorized: Leadership Development

3 August 2023 / Leadership Development / JC Gaillard
The Real Long-term Currency Here is Trust Which vendor cybersecurity survey are we meant to believe? This one — from Panaseer — arguing that CISOs would require a 40% increase in their budgets to be confident to mitigate security risks? Or this one — f… Read more »

11 May 2023 / Leadership Development / JC Gaillard
Dispelling 5 Myths around Cybersecurity for Small Businesses Data and technology have become central to the business in most companies including small firms, and in particular since the Covid pandemic which has forced many towards an accelerated digita… Read more »

8 September 2022 / Leadership Development / JC Gaillard
The cyber security transformative urgency in many firms forces to look beyond traditional technology profiles Cyber security has risen to prominence on the agenda of many business leaders. Large firms have been struggling with it for decades in… Read more »

11 August 2022 / Leadership Development / JC Gaillard
Supporting cyber security and promoting it has now become a plain matter of good leadership We are not hearing enough about the short tenure of the CISO. Regular studies place it in the region of 2 years, and anecdotal evidence from my own netw… Read more »

2 June 2022 / Leadership Development / JC Gaillard
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 of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has only had a few decades of existence and… Read more »

28 April 2022 / Leadership Development / JC Gaillard
The times have gone when the CISO had to explain what cyber security was about and the value it brought In the face of non-stop cyber-attacks, and the urgency of change around cyber security practices in large firms, the CISO has to be – first a… Read more »

20 January 2022 / Leadership Development / JC Gaillard
The key around cyber security remains Execution, Execution and Execution The short tenure of the CISO continues to generate a vast amount of debate, aggravated by the COVID pandemic and the “great resignation” episode that it is inducing. Looking beyon… Read more »

19 August 2021 / Leadership Development / Corix Partners
JC Gaillard talks to Glaucia Rosas from the Edutec Alliance on how school leaders need to approach cyber security in the wake of the COVID pandemic. *** Watch the interview here on the Edutec Alliance YouTube channel *** Over the past few… Read more »

29 April 2021 / Leadership Development / JC Gaillard
To start building solutions to the skills gap problem, it is key to look at it in all its dimensions. The debate around the cyber security skills gap continues to ride fairly high on the security industry’s agenda, but to start building solution… Read more »

29 October 2020 / Leadership Development / JC Gaillard
The key challenges of the transformational CISO are not technological, but managerial. There is still a vast amount of debate across the cyber security industry about the role of the CISO, their reporting line, their tenure, the levels of stress they’r… Read more »