CyberSecurity Tech Accord: New Thinking About Increasing Resiliance

Dateline: April 27, 2018 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. It's clear we need some new thinking to increase cyber resiliency in our society.  Recently tech execs from more than 30 leading companies made a public commitment, called the Cybersecurity Tech Accord, to improve cybersecurity.  The Accord website, cybertechaccord.org, stated … [Read more...]

Increasing Cybersecurity Requires Organizations to Collaborate

Dateline: April 13, 2018 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. It's becoming increasingly clear that one 'feature' of our business environment is making it possible for the cyber-criminals to be successful:  Our public and private organizations are hesitant to collaborate and work together.  Our competitive business ecosystem, regulations, … [Read more...]

Executive Leadership Diversity Doesn’t Just Happen

Dateline: March 9, 2018 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. With the current focus on diversity in our work environments, it's time to also focus on our leadership ranks.  While the benefits of diverse thinking are well known, its also clear that while we have come a very long way since our grandmother's generation (or even our mother's … [Read more...]

AI Disrupts Competencies Needed for Leadership

Dateline: February 16, 2018 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Leadership as we know it today is soon to be a thing of the past...or is it?  As technologies take over more of the decision making activity, based on data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence advances, visionaries are seeing changes in the role of leaders, too. … [Read more...]

Should You or Your Software Vendor Own The System’s Cybersecurity?

Dateline: February 9, 2018 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Many managers assume that the software they purchase from reputable vendors is cybersecure.  After all, our vendors know their software and their vulnerabilities, issue patches all the time, and stand to lose business and their reputation if it gets out that their software is … [Read more...]

The Count and Cybersecurity

Dateline: January 26, 2018 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week I'm teaching a short course at MIT on the managing and leading cybersecurity.  One key theme of this program is the importance of managing the people in the ecosystem since it's been observed over and over that the human risk is significant (and possibly much larger … [Read more...]

Executive Mistakes After a Data Breach

Dateline: January 12, 2018 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. We have a long way to go before we can be sure our data and systems are secure.  In the meantime, executives can take some comfort in knowing that many before them have had to made tough decisions to both protect and recover from sever cyber attacks.  Harvard Business Review … [Read more...]

The 10 IT Principles That Have Stood the Test of Time

Dateline: January 5, 2018 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. To start out the new year, we thought it would be interesting to think about how some things never change in the IT world.  A nice blog by CIO Magazine Columnist Bob Lewis reminds us that there are still some key principles that all IT strategic plans must follow.  In his … [Read more...]

Cybersecurity for Small Businesses

Dateline: December 29, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Small businesses have the same needs for cybersecurity as large businesses, but more often neglect doing the very basic actions that are needed, according to a recent article published by Tech News World.  Journalist David Jones published an article titled Small Companies … [Read more...]

Offensive and Defensive Cybersecurity

Dateline: October 27, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. The complexity of being cyber-resiliant can be overwhelming.  Knowing what to do, and how much is enough is difficult to figure out for almost everyone.  Recently author Michael Lewis, the CIO at Copper State published an opinion piece at Information Management about a … [Read more...]