Posts categorized: Strategy and Governance
21 September 2023 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
The benchmarking question is often a symptom of trust erosion between CISOs and senior execs For as long as I have been involved in cybersecurity, I have heard top executives asking for benchmarking data around their cybersecurity practice. It m… Read more »
17 August 2023 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
It has become too complex to carry for the profile of people it attracts The role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has been in existence for the best part of the last 30 years. Infosec legends say that it was first created for St… Read more »
13 July 2023 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
It starts to make sense to evolve the role of the CISO and return it to its native technical content In many large organizations, defining and structuring a Chief Security Officer role (CSO) is starting to make more and more sense. The concept i… Read more »
1 June 2023 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Cybersecurity transformation cannot be seen as a straightforward change This interesting piece in the Harvard Business Review should be a must-read for all transformational CISOs (“The Most Successful Approaches to Leading Organizational Change”… Read more »
27 April 2023 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
What’s really going on with the CISOs and their budgets? The 2023 UK Cybersecurity Landscape report from Expel makes interesting reading. Based on the feedback of 500 IT decision makers, it paints the usual picture around security operations of… Read more »
16 March 2023 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
It has to start with a degree of integration between threats, risks, controls and protective measures. Click here to watch our Founder & CEO JC Gaillard present on the theme (in French) with the Institute of Risk and Compliance in Paris on 9th Marc… Read more »
19 January 2023 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Trust between CISOs and senior executives is the only platform on which successful transformative efforts can be built around cyber security. For the past two decades, many organizations have been trapped in a spiral of failure around cybersecur… Read more »
28 July 2022 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Look at it in all its dimensions before jumping to ready-made solutions You don’t have to go far to find cyber security professionals complaining about skills shortages, but the problem has several dimensions which have to be understood and mapp… Read more »
17 March 2022 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
This is no longer just about tech — if it ever was Surveys focused on the concerns and priorities of the CISO community have been quite consistent over the last few years, and collectively, they paint a slightly uncomfortable picture: The picture of CI… Read more »
24 February 2022 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
When some people say they don’t know what to do around cyber, you may want to ask them where they have been for the last 10 years… For a number of years, I have been puzzled by the high idea some cyber security professionals seem to have that th… Read more »