Building a Cyber Incident Response Team: The CISO’s Guide A cyber incident response team (CIRT) is your organisation’s first line of defence when a security incident occurs. Building an effective CIRT is one of the highest-impact investments a CISO can make — yet many organisations approach it reactively, assembling a team mid-incident rather than establishing […]
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Cybersecurity Leadership in 2026: Why Gartner’s Three Pillars Aren’t Enough
Gartner says influence, agility, and resilience define cybersecurity leadership in 2026. From the SOC floor, those three pillars describe the surface of the job — not the fault lines underneath. Here are the five things every CISO needs to add to the framework.
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Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are not just another part of your infrastructure. They are the infrastructure.
They run power grids, water systems, manufacturing lines, transportation networks. When they fail, it is not just an IT problem. It becomes an operational problem, a safety problem, sometimes even a public trust problem within hours.
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Inside the Boardroom and Beyond: Reflecting on My Induction into the EC-Council C|CISO Hall of Fame 2025
There are moments in a professional journey that make you pause, look back at the decades of late-night incident responses, budget battles, and architectural shifts, and realize that the grind was worth every single second.
ICS Security Fundamentals
Industrial Control Systems (ICS) form the backbone of the world’s most critical infrastructure from power grids and water treatment plants to oil refineries and manufacturing facilities
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Countering Terrorist Operations in the Age of Hybrid Warfare
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Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR): A CISO’s Guide an article by Dr Erdal Ozkaya
Understanding Digital Forensics Incident Response Strategies
Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) is the discipline that combines the technical investigation of cyber in
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OT and IT security are not the same problem. This post explains why industrial environments need a fundamentally different approach — and what a real OT security programme actually looks like, from asset discovery to incident response.
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A practical framework I’ve taught CISOs in dozens of countries: Risk → Decision → Metric → Ask. How to turn fifteen minutes of board time into decisions, not presentations.
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The US Vanguard Leadership and Resilience at The World CIO 200 Summit
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