Posts categorized: Strategy and Governance
30 March 2017 / Leadership Development, Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Various clichés bouncing about on social media are simplistic and must be challenged Over the past 6 months, social media and the Internet have been inundated with GDPR-related material. Law firms, consultancies – large and small – and even tech firms… Read more »
16 February 2017 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Opaque Terms of Use around Data are making things worse Recent years have been marked by seemingly never ending scandals about surveillance programs aimed at gathering data about private citizens unbeknownst to them — the most iconic example of which w… Read more »
2 February 2017 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
The keys to a successful second line of defence There are many risk management methodologies in existence but it is not uncommon to come across large firms still following today simplistic, dysfunctional or flawed practices, in particular around operat… Read more »
5 January 2017 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Cyber security is not only good ethics, but quite simply good business. Cyber security has clearly made its way to the frontstage of the global risk landscape in recent years. Cyber-attacks are proving increasingly threatening to both the public sector… Read more »
10 November 2016 / Leadership Development, Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
4 Tips for CIOs to Deal Efficiently with Shadow IT Dealing with Shadow IT embodies the evolution of the role of the CIO, from being primarily a technologist and a problem solver to being an influencer and a risk manager. Thinking about Shadow IT as a “… Read more »
13 October 2016 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
For the past few years, an amount of hype has been developing around the Internet of Things as the technology finally seems to be ready for take-off – allowing for both the gathering and analysis of an unprecedented amount of data. In this context, man… Read more »
22 September 2016 / Leadership Development, Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Here is a scenario we are seeing far too often in the field: A new CIO comes in, identifies security problems, then nothing serious happens. At best, some tactical initiative would be pushed forward to answer outstanding audit issues, or a big gun of t… Read more »
11 August 2016 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
In recent years, the topic of digital transformation has moved to the top of the agenda in the business world. However, most of these discussions all too often seem to bypass the issue of cyber security. This is hard to understand in a context where ma… Read more »
14 July 2016 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Ransomware attacks have become one of the most dominant forms of cyber-attacks over the past few years. There is no doubt that those can be very disruptive, essentially when targeting key systems, critical data, or large populations of senior executive… Read more »
23 June 2016 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
True independence is a rare commodity in the Cyber Security world There is an incredible amount of material online and on social media around cyber security. But the vast majority of it is either sponsored by technology vendors or directly associated w… Read more »