Posts categorized: Leadership Development
10 April 2025 / Leadership Development / JC Gaillard
Why Most CISOs Still Miss the Point—and What Needs to Change The CISO Report 2025 from Splunk has received widespread comments from online cybersecurity media. Broadly speaking, they have emphasized the CISO gaining more boardroom influence, but in the… Read more »
2 January 2025 / Leadership Development / JC Gaillard
Wishing all readers and followers a happy, healthy and prosperous 2025 Don’t Expect Cybersecurity to Work in Firms where Nothing Does https://corixpartners.com/dont-expect-cybersecurity-to-work-in-firms-where-nothing-does/ IT security is… Read more »
14 November 2024 / Leadership Development / JC Gaillard
For many firms, it is a cultural transformation that is required, not just the implementation of some new tools. Recent surveys continue to paint the picture of a fairly unhappy CISO community, hopping from job to job, trapped in failed and endl… Read more »
30 May 2024 / Leadership Development / JC Gaillard
Hype and FOMO around generative AI are hijacking crucial discussions around cybersecurity in many firms Everybody is talking about generative AI. You must have been living at the bottom of the deepest cave for the best part of the last 18 months… Read more »
22 February 2024 / Leadership Development / Corix Partners
An interview with global cyber security thoughtleader and Corix Partners founder JC Gaillard Where are priorities and levers now for CISOs? What should be the ideal profile of a new CISO? And what is the real secret sauce to build up real change… Read more »
18 January 2024 / Leadership Development / JC Gaillard
You cannot expect the CISO on their own, bottom-up, to reverse widespread business dynamics, where short-termism prevails everywhere across the business. I have written at length about the difficulties many large organizations encounter with cyb… Read more »
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 »