by Jean-Christophe Gaillard | Nov 4, 2022 | Career & Profile, Feature, People & Skills, Strategic & Tech Vision
What is now required is political acumen, managerial experience, and personal gravitas, more than raw technology skills. In spite of being widely used, the role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has only had a few decades of existence and is still...
by Jean-Christophe Gaillard | Sep 22, 2021 | Career & Profile, Feature, Information Security, People & Skills
Looking beyond stress, burnout, and scapegoating theories: What is really going on? This good piece from Dan Lohrmann on GovTech made me think (Why Do Chief Security Officers Leave Jobs So Often? – 26 Feb 2021). Overall, Dan’s analysis is comprehensive and the...
by Nicola Askham | Jun 2, 2021 | Career & Profile, Data & Insight, Feature
Most people do not get into data governance deliberately, I certainly did not. It often happens by accident. You are involved in some related work and you suddenly have this realisation about how beneficial data governance actually is. People then tend to choose to...
by Jean-Christophe Gaillard | Mar 17, 2021 | Career & Profile, Feature, Systems & Infrastructure
The key challenges of the transformational CISO are not technological, but managerial. There is still a vast amount of debate across the cyber security industry about the role of the CISO, their reporting line, their tenure, the levels of stress they’re under, and the...
by Nicola Askham | Feb 12, 2021 | Career & Profile, Data & Insight, Feature, Governance
Emma McLeod is a Global Data Governance Controller at Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group (WMFTG). She is fairly new to this role, however, has been with WMFTG for nearly 6 years. Emma began as a Customer Service Representative within the UK Sales team then...
