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Leadership in Cybersecurity

N2Growth Blog

There are various job titles such as; Chief Security Officer (CSO), Chief Risk Officer, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), V.P., Regardless of titles or functional position, the lead role in a security organization is expected to wear many hats and solve a myriad of strategic, operational and tactical problems.

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Value-Added Leadership

Strategy Driven

Planning, tactics, organizational development. You employ state-of-the-art technology and are in the vanguard of your industry. Business is run economically and efficiently, with excellent accounting procedures, payables-receivables practices and cash management. Systems and Processes. Culture and Mission. Philosophy.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

The first type is known as tactical performance. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. Overdoing Tactical Performance.

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A 6-Part Tool for Ranking and Assessing Risks

Harvard Business Review

But sometimes war tactics really can help in business. Among these tactics is CARVER, a system for assessing and ranking threats and opportunities. Because it helps you articulate an efficient story using numeric values, CARVER can be used to clarify mission objectives — whether on the battlefield or in the boardroom.

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The Risks and Benefits of Using AI to Detect Crime

Harvard Business Review

Businesses are constantly experimenting with new ways to use artificial intelligence for better risk management and faster, more responsive fraud detection — and even to predict and prevent crimes. While today’s basic technology is not necessarily revolutionary, the algorithms it uses and the results they can produce are.

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The C-Suite and IT Need to Get on the Same Page on Cybersecurity

Harvard Business Review

They may think differently about the nature of cyber risk and of the way threats translate into business and technological risks. This is largely due to their priorities — C-suite executives have responsibility for mitigating business risk, while IT delivers the technological support that drives the business.

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11 Things the Health Care Sector Must Do to Improve Cybersecurity

Harvard Business Review

Here are some specific recommendations, which are based on our collective expertise in care delivery, health systems, financial regulation, and risk management. These established methods of approaching health care security would merely need to be updated to cover new forms of cyberattacks and new tactics employed by cybercriminals.