Strategic Insights

Perspectives on governance, risk, and technology leadership.

Boards Should Ask this First

For years, the cybersecurity question at the board level, and often at the management level, was simply: are we secure? I've come to believe that's the wrong question to lead with. At minimum, it's an incomplete one.

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Tech Risk is Business Risk

Twenty years ago, technology supported the business. Today, technology drives the business. This distinction matters for how boards govern.

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The Financial Risk Double Standard

Boards wouldn’t accept an unreviewed balance sheet. We wouldn’t tolerate undefined ownership of financial risk, or a review cadence that treats it as an annual event, regardless of what is happening in the business. Yet this standard is still common in technology governance.

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