Posts categorized: Strategy and Governance

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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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25 November 2021 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard

It is not rare for OT Security to end up in some form of organisational no-man’s-land This interesting interview with Andy Norton puts things in perspective around IT and OT Security (“The top 5 cybersecurity threats to OT security” – IT Security Guru… Read more »

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16 September 2021 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard

Time to move away from bottom-up dynamics: The Board should decide on priorities and drive the discussion   As we hit budget time again in many large organisations, it is still amazing to see the amount of content online dedicated to justifying cy… Read more »

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17 June 2021 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard

Defence in depth is key, but why are we hearing so little about it? Time for a few hard truths   Frankly, this is starting to become embarrassing for some security professionals. In these columns, we have been writing about ransomware since 2016,… Read more »

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3 June 2021 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard

But are the CISOs ready for it? A comment left on one of my articles made me think: How can cyber security leaders drive a long-term transformative agenda, with a business and a board that cannot see beyond the short-term? I see several angles worth di… Read more »

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25 February 2021 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard

The protection of the business from cyber threats is something you need to grow, not something you can buy   The role of the Board in relation to cyber security is a topic we have visited several times since 2015, first in the wake of the TalkTalk… Read more »

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11 February 2021 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard

Only a cultural shift across the Boardroom can move the needle   The survey released by BT Security in January 2021 (“CISOs under the spotlight”) is interesting, if only by the size of the population surveyed (over 7,000 people) and its triple foc… Read more »

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21 January 2021 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard

Security culture and governance eat tech for breakfast   *** Watch JC Gaillard talk through the content of this article at the Cyber Security Leadership Summit 2021 on 11th November 2021 ***   Looking back at what happened at ground level thr… Read more »

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