Posts categorized: Strategy and Governance

6 June 2019 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Bake it in from the start: “Moving fast and breaking things” will become a thing of the past as customers and investors take security and privacy more and more seriously It seems that security is still – at best – an afterthought for most start-ups as… Read more »

11 April 2019 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
In anything but name, data is today’s most used currency. In the current business paradigm, structured by big tech firms over a decade ago and replicated since by a number of online platforms, individuals willingly provide their personal information in… Read more »

14 March 2019 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
No longer just as an equation between risk appetite, compliance requirements and costs The “When-Not-If” paradigm around cyber-attacks is changing the deal completely around cyber security. Many large organisations now assume that breaches are simply i… Read more »

31 January 2019 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Excessive complexity and lack of first line integration render many GRC metrics useless Many CISOs complain of communication problems with their business. They are not being listened to. They are not getting the budget they think they should get. They… Read more »

17 January 2019 / Strategy and Governance / Corix Partners
Cyber security is becoming a matter of good corporate governance, good ethics, and quite simply – good business Cyber security has risen as a key issue on the radar of virtually all organisations. As a recent AT Kearney report suggests, cyber-attacks h… Read more »

6 December 2018 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Why large organizations still struggle with decade-old security problems – and how to fix them The last 12 months have been dominated by GDPR and non-stop data breaches: Facebook, British Airways, Marriott … have all been in the news. It is still unkno… Read more »

22 November 2018 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Tangible business metrics are key but hard to find Cybersecurity is rising as a key issue on the radar of virtually all organisations. According to a recent AT Kearney report, cyber-attacks have been topping executives’ lists of business risks for thre… Read more »

25 October 2018 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Cybersecurity needs to be at the heart of the digital transformation, but organisational models will have to evolve Cybersecurity is in the process of becoming an essential component of any organisation’s digital transformation journey. There is no w… Read more »

2 August 2018 / Leadership Development, Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Constant firefighting downgrades the role and the CISO must fight to avoid its gravitational pull With regards to many other C-level roles, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) position is a fairly recent creation for many organisations. Altho… Read more »

19 July 2018 / Architecture and Design, Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Spectacular recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are feeding many fantasies in the world of cybersecurity. Almost everything can be heard on the topic, from the looming obsolescence of even the best defence solutions to an open war betwe… Read more »