Posts categorized: Leadership Development
25 June 2015 / Leadership Development, Strategy and Governance / Neil Cordell
Another commonly held view across Information Security communities is that, given the current level of cyber threats, business protection is primarily driven by the implementation of the latest technical Information Security products (in order to “keep… Read more »
18 June 2015 / Leadership Development, Strategy and Governance / Neil Cordell
Another commonly held view across Information Security communities is that an Information Security practice needs to drive technical projects. In the previous article, it was highlighted that Information Security needs to be a cross-silo practice rathe… Read more »
11 June 2015 / Leadership Development, Strategy and Governance / Neil Cordell
Another commonly held view across Information Security communities is that Information Security needs to be primarily a technical discipline. At face value, this view doesn’t make sense because Information exists in both physical and digital forms – an… Read more »
4 June 2015 / Leadership Development, Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Another commonly held view across Information Security communities is that Information Security needs to be everybody’s responsibility. This is the cliché against which countless Security awareness development programmes have been justified – and while… Read more »
14 May 2015 / Leadership Development, Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Create a sense of reality around the threats and do not focus only on IT aspects: Talk to your business in its own language about Security. Another commonly held view across Information Security communities is that the business doesn’t really care abou… Read more »
7 May 2015 / Leadership Development, Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Think of Information Security as a Control function and not as a Support function. There is a commonly held view across Information Security communities that Information Security should be an “enabler” to the business. This is simply the wrong debate a… Read more »
5 February 2015 / Leadership Development / JC Gaillard
Our recently featured article, ‘Information Security: Three Governance Challenges for the CIO’, explores the relationship between information security and the CIO. Looking at the historic factors which have shaped the way large corporations view information security and how it falls into the responsibilities of the modern day CIO, this article discusses where the CIO can make a difference – and the factors that will play on their success in doing so.