Cyber Security: Neutralizing Threat Risks

October 21, 2021
Hosted by William Ulrich

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Cyber security is a critical issue that is becoming progressively more critical and at the same time more complex, affecting everything that computes, manages, and communicates information. Concurrently, security assurance and certification are an expensive endeavor and the need for automated, repeatable detection is essential to an organization’s business continuity, strategic mission, competitiveness, time to market, and decision-making at all levels. The main factor preventing scalability of certificating systems as safe and secure is the overwhelming reliance on human evaluators. The amount of evidence required to certify a system as being cyber-secure can be overwhelming, resulting in superficial, incomplete, and unacceptably long evaluation cycles. On this week’s episode of The North Star, William Ulrich welcomes cyber security and systems assurance authority Djenana Campara, President and CEO of KDM Analytics. Ms. Campara is leading efforts to standardize and automate systems assurance and cyber security assessments. In this interview, she will share insights into the current state of cyber risks, cyber security, risk categories, risk targets, and the automated detection of threats and vulnerabilities. Listen in to this episode to gain important insights into how your organization should incorporate cyber security and systems assurance into its business strategy.

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The North Star takes a deep dive into the topic of strategy execution, often challenging conventional wisdom for achieving an organization’s strategic vision. The host and thought leaders from multiple fields explore concepts that include rethinking innovation, increasing enterprise agility, transitioning to the circular economy, managing enterprise risk and becoming a cognitive enterprise. Setting sights on one’s “north star” is only half the story. Decades of experience point to the headwinds organizations have faced in pursuit of their strategic vision. To that end, the North Star examines how organizations can more effectively deliver on critical business strategies in these uncertain times. The show tackles intractable challenges that many organizations have historically sidestepped, such as optimizing major program investments and untangling high risk technology deployments. While the show often points toward the road less traveled, that road that can make all the difference.

William Ulrich

William Ulrich is President of Tactical Strategy Group, Inc., Cofounder of Business Architecture Associates, President and Cofounder of the Business Architecture Guild and Cutter Consortium Fellow. As a management consultant for more than 40 years, Mr. Ulrich continues to serve as advisor, mentor and workshop leader to corporations and governments worldwide. He is a thought leader in strategy execution, business transformation, business architecture and transformation oversight. Mr. Ulrich has the unique ability to engage executives and practitioners across business and IT boundaries to facilitate and streamline ecosystem-wide transformation. His transformation workshops and lectures have been widely attended by organizations worldwide. Mr. Ulrich blends his IT transformation expertise with his extensive business architecture and business transformation experience to deliver end-to-end solutions that are fully aligned to business strategy. He has authored or coauthored multiple books and transformation methodologies and was an originating contributor to “A Guide to the Business Architecture Body of Knowledge.” Prior to founding Tactical Strategy Group in 1990, Mr. Ulrich served as management consultant, spending the bulk of the 1980s with KPMG where he helped mature its software reengineering practice. His latest writings focus on the cognitive enterprise, transitioning to the circular economy and business-driven IT architecture transformation.

Episode Directory

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