Executive Briefings
Effective digital strategies must be fluid and continuously evaluated in light of changes in technologies, providers, and competitors. Our Executive Briefings are intended to provide directors and officers with up-to-date, focused insights that are relevant to the decisions they must make in determining enterprise strategy. These briefings are typically 45-60 minutes, allowing sufficient time for discussion and question – and are specifically tailored for providing strategic insights with enough technical detail to ensure full understanding.
Announcing our Fall 2024 Briefing Series
We are pleased to announce our Fall 2024 executive briefing series. Building on prior seasons’ briefings, this is our largest selection of topics for our director & officer clients. Delivered virtually, the fall schedule for board meetings and executive committee meetings is available for scheduling now.
Bridging the AI Expertise Gap
- Understanding the nature and scale of the gap in needed expertise at the board, executive, and enterprise levels
- Evaluating sources of expertise and capacity to support AI strategy formulation and execution
- Defining meaningful measures for allocating scarce resources and monitoring business value realized from key investments
AI Adoption - How Much, How Fast
- Economics of adoption – setting realistic expectations and measurable outcomes from AI investments
- Case studies – learning from the experiences of others in selection, implementation, and monetization of results
- Fundamental strategy choices – the traditional build-or-buy decision is more complex than ever
- Understanding the risks and opportunities associated with proprietary data use in third-party models
- Defining actionable steps to gauge strategies and investments
CrowdStrike - An Object Lesson in Third-Party Risk
- Understanding what happened in the July 2024 outage
- Regulatory perspective – evaluating SEC, CISA, and other reporting challenges
- Exploring other products and vendors that may have similar risks
- Defining a measurable set of actions to minimize exposure to similar situations
Quantum Risk Looms
- Quantum computing in cybersecurity – a 101-level primer
- Forecasting Q-Day – the date that quantum computing is sufficiently developed to compromise cybersecurity tools
- Mitigation strategies – what levers are available for reducing shareholder risk
- Defining actionable steps to gauging your risk and to evaluating your mitigation strategy
Critical Infrastructure - Increasing Risk in Face of Geopolitical Realities
- Overview of the major actors, agendas, and historical behaviors
- Gauging relative risks across critical infrastructure sectors
- Understanding the limits of what government can/will do to protect your assets
- Defining steps to gauge your risk and response strategies
Spring 2024 Briefing Series
Cyber Regulatory Reporting - the Alphabet Soup of Disclosures
- SEC cyber disclosures – early signs, lessons learned
- CISA incident reporting – adjacent to SEC but with different objectives, methods
- Cyber reporting at-large – establishing macro / global context
- Defining a single model for understanding and ensuring compliance
Cybersecurity Budget Outlook
- Return-to-Office – relief in some areas, lingering overhead in others
- Cloud as an accelerator, also a source of expanded attack surface / risk
- Forecasts – a survey from a variety of sources, perspectives
- Planning for the remainder of FY24, looking ahead to FY25
ChatGPT Has Competition - Credible Options Emerge
- Context on GPT / LLM models and approaches
- Survey of players, offerings, relative strengths and weaknesses
- Implications to competition, solution alternatives to enable corporate AI strategies
- Gauging adoption – speed, scale, economics
- Establishing a model for governance and measurement
Fall 2023 Briefing Series
Preparing For SEC Cyber Disclosures
- Understanding the objectives and evolution of likely rule making
- Predictions on likely rule making – key elements
- Establishing clear plans for various outcomes – expect rapid deadlines
AI Ethics, Governance
- Understanding the scale and speed of this next generation technology – buckle up
- Shifting our thinking about ethics from human-speed to machine-speed
- Gauging the impacts – threats as well as opportunities
- Defining the framework for ensuring transparent, timely governance and oversight
Spring 2023 Briefing Series
SolarWinds - A Scale of Compromise Few Anticipated
- Understanding the Orion solution – a 101-level primer on the problem
- A survey of the affected organizations
- Implications and responses – from transparency to intentional opacity
- Lessons learned – capturing lessons learned into actionable next steps
Return-to-Office - Harder Than Anticipated
- Context on adoption rates, industries, geographies
- Lessons learned by early-returners
- Sorting through both predictable barriers and unexpected challenges to returning to “normal”
- Defining realistic and adaptable strategy for accelerating RTO
ChatGPT - The World Just Changed...
- AI 101 – historical methods, fundamental changes in capability
- Case studies – early assessment of capabilities and potential impacts
- Competitive alternatives – scanning the market to identify suitable solutions and partners
- Adapting your technology strategy to ever-faster cycle times
