Posts categorized: Strategy and Governance
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 »
9 June 2016 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Cyber security must be at the heart of the public sector IT agenda and must be seen as a necessary barrier against real and active threats. It needs to be actively implemented at people, process and technology levels. It needs to be embedded in the min… Read more »
26 May 2016 / Leadership Development, Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Cloud computing has been a hot topic for the best part of the last five years. And security considerations have been at the heart of many cloud discussions throughout. However, the context against which many Cloud decisions are made is changing. Evolut… Read more »
19 May 2016 / Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Cyber Security Transformation is not about implementing yet another technology product Anybody who has spent a few years in InfoSec management has seen this happen: Following an internal near-miss or some high-profile security incident widely publicise… Read more »
12 May 2016 / Leadership Development, Strategy and Governance / JC Gaillard
Cyber threats are a reality for most organisations. However, misconceptions and misunderstandings about the true nature of InfoSec are still hindering the protection of highly strategic information assets. Here, we offer to outline key pitfalls that CI… Read more »