by Jean-Christophe Gaillard | Feb 4, 2020 | Collaboration, Feature, Information Security, Role of the CIO
5 key points to drive culture change around cyber security Culture and governance are key to drive change around cyber security behaviours, but too many awareness programmes focus simply on superficial technical gimmicks. Let’s start by deconstructing 3 clichés which...
by Jean-Christophe Gaillard | Jan 10, 2020 | Collaboration, Feature, Information Security, Role of the CIO
One Board member must be in charge and their pay package must ride on it In 2015, in the wake of the TalkTalk data breach which made a massive impact in the UK media and even got politicians involved, we first explored the key questions the Board should ask in large...
by Jean-Christophe Gaillard | Nov 26, 2019 | Collaboration, Feature, Information Security, Role of the CIO
The Security industry talks a lot about what could go wrong … but not so much about how to improve things Research released today by The Security Transformation Research Foundation, ahead of the Cyber Security Leadership Summit in Berlin on 12-14 November 2019,...
by Jean-Christophe Gaillard | Nov 11, 2019 | Collaboration, Information Security, Role of the CIO
Security Organizations must evolve. The CISO cannot be credible on all fronts A recent comment I read on Linkedin made me think. It was in response to a post on zero-day vulnerabilities and software patching, and roughly translated from the French, it read as follows:...
by Jean-Christophe Gaillard | Sep 25, 2019 | Feature, Information Security, IT Infrastructure, Role of the CIO
Blind trust is no longer enough in the era of GDPR Clouds are those blurred masses of condensed watery vapor floating in the sky whose gloomy nature often leads to questionings around their true physical state. Are they really tangible? Could we touch what we look up...
by Jean-Christophe Gaillard | Aug 28, 2019 | CIO WaterCooler Consultants, Collaboration, Feature, Information Security, Role of the CIO
A symptom of the unhealthy relationship between cyber security and large firms As we reach one of the high points of each year’s conference season, one has to reflect once more on the staggering number of products and vendors active across the cybersecurity space....