Posts categorized: Leadership Development

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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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