Posts categorized: Strategy and Governance

20 March 2025 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Cybersecurity is not just a numbers game — it’s about leadership, execution, and resilience. There is an old recurring topic in the cybersecurity industry revolving around the cost of data breaches. Let’s start by repeating what might be obvious to rea… Read more »

27 February 2025 / Strategy and Governance / Corix Partners
An interview with global cybersecurity thought leader and Corix Partners founder JC Gaillard In a recent article, global cybersecurity expert and thought-leader JC Gaillard shared his insights on the complexities of cybersecurity transformation,… Read more »

30 January 2025 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
The time has come for top leaders to own the problem back and address it as they would any other business challenge Cybersecurity budgets appear to be on the rise, driven by increasing regulatory pressure and relentless threats. In fact, there i… Read more »

31 October 2024 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Businesses need to break out of the tactical mindsets that have dominated the past few years while their damage can still be reversed Since the advent of the Covid pandemic in 2020, cybersecurity practices, like business at large, have been stru… Read more »

19 September 2024 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
CISOs must avoid the repeat of some historical situations where cybersecurity might have been seen at odds with business needs For the past two years, the business world has been trying to figure out what to do in practice with generative AI. Be… Read more »

29 August 2024 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Without a sense of context, the CISO cannot be expected to communicate meaningfully towards the Board You don’t have to go far online or on social media to come across articles analysing the difficulties CISOs have in communicating with the Boar… Read more »

9 May 2024 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
The Board needs to take an elevated view on cybersecurity, looking for cross-functional governance matters beyond the mere technical horizon As I was looking back at the role of the Board around cybersecurity oversight in the context of this rec… Read more »

14 March 2024 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Many small firms would often benefit from looking internally first, before jumping to externalised cybersecurity solutions Many small firms have been struggling with cyber-attacks over the past few years and might have been tempted by virtual CI… Read more »

4 January 2024 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
The bottom-up approaches most have been pushing for 20 years around cybersecurity have simply failed I am delighted to share below my foreword to “The Cybersecurity Spiral of Failure – and How to Break out of It” >> BUY IT HERE on Amazon… Read more »

19 October 2023 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Business protection from cyber threats must be rooted in the reality of the world we live in The role of the Board with regards to cybersecurity is a topic that keeps coming back and is often addressed in simplistic terms in my view. I don’t thi… Read more »